Talk:Canoe slalom

"Slalom boats are low volume and have a thin profile to enable them to get underneath the gate poles. Their low volume sterns allow the boat to slice through the water via what is called a pirouette. Typically, new racing boats cost between $1,200 and $2,500 (or £650 onwards for the cheapest constructions in fibreglass)."

Does wikipeida have a standard for currency? this seems awkward. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.211.190 (talk • contribs) 14:54, 1 May 2006

List of past Olympic locations:

• 1972: Augsburg, W. Germany
• 1992: La Seu d'Urgell, Spain
• 1996: Ocoee River, U.S.A.
• 2000: Penrith, Australia
• 2004: Athens, Greece
• 2008: Shunyi, China
• 2012: Broxbourne, England

'Past'? 2012? Deleted 'past'

--Triviumrocker 13:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Whitewater slalom has been known as Canoe Slalom since 2008 and this is the term that the International Canoe Federation uses (http://www.canoeicf.com/icf/Aboutoursport/Canoe-Slalom.html).

String-Bean 17:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Agree. Canoe Slalom is less descriptive than Whitewater Slalom, especially since it is not done on flat water and is done more often in a kayak (K-1) than in a decked canoe (C-1, C-2). It is never done in the kind of open boat that most people think of as a canoe. Nonetheless, the term Canoe Slalom is the official name, so we might as well adopt the international nomenclature. HowardMorland (talk) 01:21, 16 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Hallo, I know nothing much about canoeing/kayaking. So when I've heard mention of "Kayak cross" in coverage of the Olympics, I wondered what it was. Wikipedia wasn't telling me, so I first added a note at Talk:Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics but then, per WP:SOFIXIT, I googled, found a few solid sources, and added a tentative new section to this article, with redirects from Kayak cross and Extreme slalom. But I'm sure there are canoe-focused editors who can do much better. Does it merit its own article? Over to you, anyway, and I hope that what I've done is correct as far as it goes. There must be a whole lot of other people out there wondering what "kayak cross" is (as for all sorts of other new sports topics in which we all suddenly get interested when it's on the Olympics coverage), and Wikipedia ought to be telling them. PamD 08:32, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply