My Olympic Sport

I have had lots of opportunity to watch the Olympics for the past week. One of my favorite things about the Olympics is finding new sports. The most memorable was curling two winter Olympics ago. This year I saw handball for the first time. After watching this much Olympics I went to the website to see how many different sports there are. While there I decided that when I go to the Olympics I will go as a slalom kayaker. Essentially there is a fake river with gates set up. Green gates mean you go through them going downstream and red you go upstream. There is a two second penalty if you bump a gate and a 50 second penalty if you push it past a 45 degree angle, go the wrong way through it, or miss it altogether. Here is a video of Campbell Walsh slalom kayaking to give a feel of the sport.



Unfortunately I missed this event because I was still at camp when it happened. This would be a fun event to train for, just go to rivers and start paddling down them until you are really good at controlling your boat. Then find a course and start applying your control. Now I just need a spare 2 grand to get all the equipment. Keep an eye out at the next Olympics, I might be there for some kayaking.