NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In the new Olympic sport of Kayak Cross the rules are quite simple ...
In the new Olympic sport of Kayak Cross the rules are quite simple. Four kayakers position themselves side-by-side on a platform about 15 feet above an artificially-made whitewater slalom course. They ...
The event is new at the Games this year and it will feature plenty of barrel-rolling action on the water. Plus, Stephen Nedoroscik and Simone Biles compete for more medals. The heats of kayak cross ...
Hungary has the most total canoeing medals in Olympics history with 86: 28 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze. Germany (34) and the Soviet Union (29), however, have more gold medals. All canoeing events ...
PARIS, France — North Carolina native Evy Leibfarth put her paddle-to-the-metal in the women's canoeing singles last week, earning her first Olympic medal. This week, she tested her skills in a new ...
The Ukrainian team of Oleh Kukharyk, Dmytro Danylenko, Ihor Trunov, and Ivan Semykin finished fourth in the 500-meter kayak quadruple sculls at the Paris Olympics. Ukrainian kayakers participated in ...
VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France — This is not what kayak fans are used to seeing at the Olympics. Competitors dropping their contacts into the water from a 15-foot-high platform as three other paddlers work ...