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	Slalom canoeing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whitewater Slalom is a competitive sport where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible.
		It is one of the two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics, and is referred to by the IOC as "canoe/kayak slalom".
		Slalom courses are usually on class 2 to class 4 whitewater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slalom_canoeing (473 words)

	Slalom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slalom refers to a sport in which participants attempt to complete a course, in the fastest time, while passing through marked channels known as gates.
		The word slalom originates from the Norwegian word slalåm: "sla," meaning steep hillside, and "låm," meaning the trail after the skis.
		Examples of this include slalom skiing; slalom canoeing; slalom waterskiing; slalom skating; snowboard parallel giant slalom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slalom (129 words)

	Canoe_Slalom
		Canoe Slalom is intended to test whitewater skills in a safe environment, and the race course is set by a professional course designer.
		The history of Slalom dates back to 1932 in Switzerland, where the inventor of the sport announced "Slalom is a whitewater test." The idea came from skiing, with the concept of "Winter, snow and Ski Slalom" being turned into "Summer, water and Canoe Slalom".
		The Australian Canoe Slalom season begins with selection for the national Team, in which athletes must compete in a series of races in Australia at the start of each year and finish within the top three - a position in which hundreds of canoeists from around the country aspire to.
	www.canoeslalom.com.au /default.asp?MenuID=Canoe_Slalom/864/7385 (651 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Helliniko Olympic Complex
		Slalom canoeing is a competitive sport where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible.
		Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the flatwater events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines.
		The Helliniko Olympic Complex is situated on the east coast of Greece south of Athens, approximately 30 kilometres from the Olympic Village, and was built for the staging of the 2004 Summer Olympics and consists of 5 separate venues.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Helliniko-Olympic-Complex (917 words)

	Canoeing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Competitive Canoeing Disciplines - Sprint Canoeing - the oldest discipline of ICF canoeing, sometimes referred to as "Racing", and involves principally kayak s, and some canoe s.
		There are some other forms of competitive canoeing which do not come under ICF auspices:- - Rodeo - a radical form developed from Slalom, where the competitor performs tricks and stunts, such as striking a suspended ball with the nose of the kayak, and receives points for style as well as times.
		Canoeing Safaris Provides the opportunity to explore the waterways of Africa and their surroundings on a variety of safaris.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Canoeing.html (1169 words)

	Slalom canoeing: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A canoe is a relatively small human-powered boat....
		Slalom courses usually take 100 to 200 seconds to navigate and each competitor has two runs.
		Slalom boats are low volume and have a thin profile to enable them to get underneath the gate poles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slalom_canoeing.htm (338 words)

	World Class Programme \| ABOUT CANOEING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Slalom canoeing had begun on flat water, but soon switched to white water rapids on natural rivers.
		Canoe sprint racing goes back to 1869, when John MacGregor organised the first regatta at the "Canoe Club" he had founded in 1866 in London.
		Canoeing became part of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, and sprint canoeing has been part of the Olympics ever since.
	www.worldclass-canoeing.org.uk /wcp/gbcanoeing/Level1MenuItemId/4/about-canoeing.aspx (317 words)

	A Newcomers
		Whitewater slalom, which was originally modelled on ski slalom, began in Switzerland in 1932.
		Canoe slalom is one of the most spectacular watersports, demanding skill, stamina and courage.
		Slalom paddlers are grouped so that they can race others of similar ability, on water that is appropriate to their skill.
	www.canoeslalom.co.uk /FAQs.htm (2335 words)

	RMCC Instructors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Rocky Mountain Canoe Club is an organization for paddlers in the Colorado area covering all aspects of paddle sports from flat water to white water with an emphasis on the open canoe.
		They are avid slalom canoe racers and have placed a number of times in national competition.
		Their canoeing interests and experience extends beyond whitewater canoeing and includes quietwater freestyle canoeing, wilderness canoeing, as well as flatwater marathon racing.
	www.rockymountaincanoeclub.org /trainers.html (101 words)

	Australian Institute of Sport - Canoeing - Slalom
		Slalom Canoeing was re-inducted into the AIS scholarship program.
		A Highlight for the Slalom Canoeing program was the silver medal won by associate scholarship holder Danielle Woodward in the K1 Slalom Canoeing event.
		In March 1990 the AIS's Slalom Canoeing program at New Norfolk, Tasmania was opened, with the aim of preparing slalom paddlers for the Barcelona Olympics.
	www.ais.org.au /canoeing/slalom/achievements.asp (666 words)

	an article from GCA member John Pinyerd, USA Wildwater Chairman.
		Canoes were the essential craft for anyone who wished to experience travel in the Canadian and North American wilderness.
		The impact of the North American canoe eventually spilled over to modern canoe and kayak racing, even to the way that the race classes are designated.
		In addition, in Wildwater and Slalom, the majority of the racers needed to fill the ICF Classes are canoeist.
	www.georgiacanoe.org /id34.html (921 words)

	2012 - Olympic Host Cities - All you need to know!
		A new Canoe Slalom course would be built at Broxbourne, using the waters of the River Lea to provide a physical link to the Olympic Park in the Lower Lea Valley.
		The slalom course would become a centre for elite and grass-roots training and competition, as well as becoming a major leisure attraction for white water rafting.
		Canoeing is an established discipline and one of the most-practiced sports in the city of Aranjuez.
	www.wa.canoe.org.au /?Page=8332 (1711 words)

	H2O Extreme - Ireland's only dedicated white water kayaking company
		Canoe Camping expeditions are also very popular and there are many excellent trips around Ireland suitable for Canoe Camping such as the Shannon waterway.
		Canoe Polo is a is a team sport involving teams of five players, the objective being to score goals much like water polo or soccer.
		Ireland is to host the European Canoe Polo championships in 2003 for the first time, this promises to bring many thousands to Kilcock, Co. Kildare to watch team from all over Europe battle it out for the men's, women's and junior titles.
	www.h2oextreme.net /CanoeingDisciplines.htm (1177 words)

	Canoeing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The slalom events, involving men's K1, C1 and C2 and women's K1 (denoting one or two paddlers in a canoe or kayak), require the paddlers to negotiate 20 to 25 gates in turbulent water over a 300-metre course.
		Martikan was 16 years old when he won the bronze medal in the C1 slalom at the 1995 World Championships.
		Men race in kayaks and canoes, the open boats paddled from a kneeling position with a single-blade paddle.
	www.jhelliwell.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /harry/canoeing.htm (687 words)

	Lynn Conway's Whitewater Canoeing page
		For someone who had done lots of hiking, backpacking and climbing, canoeing was a wonderful way to re-experience the out-of-doors: silently moving along, leaving no trail, able to move closer-up to wildlife, and finding all sorts of special places only accessible from the water.
		In the mid-to-late 1980's, solo canoe design was progressing very rapidly, and paddlers were running rivers in the new solo canoes that previously had only been run in decked boats (kayaks).
		We took whitewater slalom racing instruction at NOC and Whitewater Specialty, and then did a lot of practicing at the East Race Waterway, an artifical whitewater raceway in South Bend, Indiana.
	ai.eecs.umich.edu /people/conway/Ww/WW.html (808 words)

	Australian Institute of Sport - Canoeing
		Canoeing officially became the seventeenth scholarship sport at the AIS in April 1989.
		The slalom program began in New Norfolk, Tasmania in March 1990 and the sprint canoeing program intially in Maroochydore, Queensland before moving in 1991 to its present site at Pizzey Park on the Gold Coast.
		With a wall of whitewater confronting them as they hurtle down a torrential current, negotiating gates upstream and rocks downstream, slalom canoe competitors need split-second timing, mental and physical agility, strength and balance.
	www.ais.org.au /canoeing/index.asp (209 words)

	The Ultimate Olympian: April 2005
		Canoeing is hard - I'll tell you how hard in the next few days when I regain enough strength to type a proper post and stop tasting the nastier elements of the River Trent every time I swallow.
		The first thing you should know is that kayaking and canoeing are essentially the same thing – that is to say, all kayaking is canoeing – but not all canoeing is kayaking.
		Slalom made its debut in Munich in 1972, but did not appear again until Barcelona in 1992 (where my mentor for this weekend finished 17th – he then finished 9th in Atlanta four years later).
	ultimateolympian.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_ultimateolympian_archive.html (3877 words)

	Wikinfo \| Canoeing
		- Sprint Canoeing - the oldest discipline of ICF canoeing, sometimes referred to as "Racing", and involves principally kayaks, and some canoes.
		- Slalom Canoeing - Competitors are timed in completing a descent down the rapids of a wild water course, in the process steering their canoe or kayak through "gates" (a pair of suspened poles about 1m apart), including going up against the flow, across the flow, and surfing the standing waves of the rapids.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Canoeing (865 words)

	BBC Sport Academy \| Other Sport \| Make a splash with our canoeing guide
		There are two types of canoeing races - flat water (or sprint) and slalom.
		There are two types of canoes used at the games - the Canadian and the kayak.
		Canadian canoes can be used for both flat water and slalom racing, and are paddled from a kneeling position using a single-bladed paddle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/newsid_3663000/3663985.stm (157 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The venue for the slalom canoeing">slalom canoeing and slalom kayaking for the 2012 Summer Olympics will be built at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
		This location is just outside the northern boundary of Greater London, and like the main Olympic centre at Stratford in East...
		He took up slalom canoeing and took part in his first expedition in 1969.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Slalom-Canoeing.htm (268 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		CANOE / KAYAK > CANOE / KAYAK SLALOM
		He studied the ancient kayaks, designed a similar boat and disappeared into the rivers and lakes of Europe's wilderness to become a noted travel writer of his time.
		When others copied his boat, he founded the Royal Canoe Club, and canoe regattas began a year later in 1866.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=CS (229 words)

	Olympic dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Robert, the founder and driving force behind the Lembethe Canoe Club, has been part of the rowing fraternity since the 1970s and is still a top class paddler.
		His dream to take canoeing to Nagle Dam, deep in the Valley of a Thousand Hills started with informal coaching courses for young people in the region and then led to the formation of the Club.
		Cameron, South African slalom canoeing champion and aspirant Olympian is striving to qualify a boat for South Africa at the Athens 2004 Olympics.
	www.murrob.com /Investor/publications/robust/mar04/olympicdreams.htm (851 words)

	Sports 123: Slalom Canoeing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Slalom canoeing is one of the competitive disciplines of canoeing.
		Competitors are timed in completing a descent down the rapids of a wild water course (natural or artificial), in the process steering their canoe (canadian) or kayak through gates (a pair of suspended poles about 1m apart), including going up against the flow, across the flow, and surfing the standings waves of the rapids.
		Slalom Canoeing is organised by the International Canoe Federation, which was founded in 1924.
	www.sports123.com /sca/index.html (133 words)

	CANOEING WEBSITES - Canoeing UK, canoes, canoe trips, kayaking, watersports, canoeing, kayaking, equipment, locations. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		On-line Canoeing Store and Community with over 1000 canoeing products, articles and guides about canoeing and a free e-Classified section for selling your old gear.
		British slalom canoeing with race news and information.
		An active kayak and canoe club with over 120 members based at the Mount Batten Water Sports Centre.
	www.canoeing-websites.co.uk (144 words)

	Perth's White Water Park
		Canoeing WA recognises the importance of water to the State.
		Canoe Slalom is an Olympic sport and West Australians have been at the forefront of international competition in this sport.
		Kynan Maley is the current Australian C1 Slalom Champion and came third in the World Freestyle Championships and Robin Bell came fourth in the C1 Slalom at the Athens Olympics.
	www.whitewaterperth.org.au /lostrivers (1166 words)

	Slalom Canoeing Rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Due to a calculation error the winner of the junior C1 is actually Jonathan Davis and not Ian Burrows as was announced on the weekend.
		In 1866 the first canoe club was founded.
		The Royal Canoe Club; the first competitions were held in the same year.
	samlyons.id.au /ranking/template/html/index.html (69 words)

	AIS seeks Western Sydney's youth as future Olympians - Australian Sports Commission Media Release 2004
		No experience in canoeing is necessary, but a desire to compete internationally in canoe slalom and to represent Australia at the 2012 Olympic Games is essential.
		Canoe slalom is an exciting, skilful and adrenalin-charged sport and is one of the world's most mentally and physically demanding sports.
		The project, Beyond Beijing - The next generation of Olympians, is a canoe slalom talent identification project conducted by the Australian Institute of Sport and the National Talent Search Program in conjunction with Australian Canoeing and the Penrith Whitewater Stadium.
	www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/2004/ascmedia/20040115a.asp (402 words)

	SportingPulse Homepage for NZ Canoeing Federation Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Canoe Racing New Zealand, the national organization for sprint and marathon kayak racing, and long distance surf ski racing, is seeking applications for the newly created CEO position...
		New Zealand Canoeing gratefully acknowledges the NZ Community Trust supporting the attendance of NZ delegates at the International Canoeing Federation's Olympic Symposium in Poland.
		The New Zealand Canoeing Federation thanks SPARC and the New Zealand Academy of Sport for their generous support of canoeing athletes, coaches, and officials through the Prime Minister's Scholarship programme.
	www.nzcanoefed.org.nz (1270 words)

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