Well it’s Olympic canoeing but not as you know it – here’s Mo Farah as you’ve never seen him before, paddling a kayak in the BBC’s Superstars competition. We wrote recently about how the BBC was to revive the Superstars…
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Kayaking rapids in Slovenia
I went to Slovenia a few years ago and had a brilliant few days rafting, mountain biking and canoeing around Tolmin, a small town in the south-west of the country a couple of hours’ drive from the Italian border. The…
Back to the roots of kayaking
We owe the native populations of Canada and the nearly frozen north a great deal, not least for their development of kayaks. There’s a great deal of history and background to kayaking, in the north of Canada and elsewhere, with…
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There’s nothing oar-some about kayak events
I’m going to declare a one-man war of pedantry against lazy headline writing. Admittedly this site did once use the execrable picture caption “Can-oe believe it” but that was because we were, um, short of ideas and long on space.…
For canoeists everywhere: the VW anorak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJPiPe4oD4c (Apologies, the video is in Spanish but it’s just to give you a general idea). OK, so it’s not called the anorak and this isn’t a motoring website. But it’s not often that a major car maker designs a…
