canoe/Kayak Slalom Tickets
Canoe / Kayak Slalom
Posted November 3rd, 2007 by editer
Sydney, 20 September 2000. C2 canoe/kayak. Marek Jiras and Thomas Mader (CZE), 3rd. Credit: Getty Images/Clive Brunskill
A whalebone and driftwood frame, with a sea-lion skin stretched tautly over it and waterproofed with whale fat, hardly suggests a budding Olympic sport. Yet the kayaks that meant life to the Inuits in the Arctic for centuries have become the racing kayaks of the modern world - even if the building materials have changed.
