Sprint Canoeing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[dcro 10,211]

Spanish Portela is the 2002 World Champion in this event.

[Monzanator 5,093]

Walczykiewicz really had a bad start which cost her the medal.

 

Our terrible Games continue in fine style.

[rybak 3,430]

Just now, Monzanator said:

Walczykiewicz really had a bad start which cost her the medal.

 

Our terrible Games continue in fine style.

I fear that Naja/Puławska will share Marta's fate...

[Vektor 3,326]

Goodbye women's K1 200, you were never kind to us (Hungarians), but at least you gave the Canoeing community this big achievement from Carrington. 

[heywoodu 16,459]

3 minutes ago, Agger said:

Damn that correction!

Always grab the live timing in these kind of finishes  

[Monzanator 5,093]

Why is K1 200m getting dropped anyway? Sprint distances are usually the most popular in several other sports?

[heywoodu 16,459]

1 minute ago, Monzanator said:

Why is K1 200m getting dropped anyway? Sprint distances are usually the most popular in several other sports?

That's why two 1000m's are getting axed in half! Because that's shorter and so, by definition, better!

 

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The men’s and women’s K1 200 will not be contested in Paris. Under the changes, the men’s K2 1000 and C2 1000 will both become 500 metre events.

 

There will be K4 500 races for both men and women. The blue riband events of K1 1000 for men, C1 1000m and K1 500 for women remain unchanged.

 

The women’s C1 200 and C2 500, which will be raced at an Olympics for the first time next year in Tokyo, remain unchanged for Paris 2024.

 

[dcro 10,211]

[heywoodu 16,459]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

I find it both odd and so cool that there's a country in the world where sprint canoeing of all things is the only sport in which they're not half-bad  

[Monzanator 5,093]

just beats