On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0000, Joe Flannery wrote: > I think that in the Olympics they should have a real course and not a man > made course for the kayaking. That'd be great, but coming up with one which is (a) near enough to the main venue for the Games (b) of sufficient difficulty but (c) without life-threatening hazards while (d) having adequate infrastructure (roads, parking, spectator seating, etc.) and (e) controllable flow is a tough task. In 1996, whitewater slalom was held on the Ocoee, a couple of hours from Atlanta -- and it worked (I was there) with the only real problem being the gouging of spectators by food/drink vendors. But not every site is so lucky, and in the case of Sydney, they responded by building a course that is considered to be one of the premier sites in the world. ---Rsk Rich Kulawiec rsk_at_gsp.org *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 25 2000 - 17:28:42 PDT
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