Video: What is Kayak Cross? The newest, exhilarating Olympic event | Paddle UK
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New video by playak: Introducing Kayak Cross, an all-action, exhilarating discipline that will be making its Olympic Games debut in Paris 2024 this summer.
Kayak Cross is the adrenaline-pumping cousin of slalom kayaking. In kayak cross, four paddlers race head-to-head down a course. They start by launching off a ramp and then it's a mad dash to the finish line. Your competitors are allowed to push you off course. It's like bumper cars on water! Miss a gate, though, and you're out.
It's fast, i...