With Paris 2024 kicking off and introducing four new sports and some variations of already established Olympic sports at the Games. We’re taking a look at one of the new events that we’re set to see in France, with a member of Team GB the current world champion in the sport.
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00:00The gate's open. That is about the only certainty. Kayak Cross will be on screens for the first
00:07time this Olympic Games. What unfolds after the ramp drop is dynamic disorder, which for
00:13good measure demands competitors must also submerge themselves to complete a 360 degree
00:20boat roll. And at the end of it, Britain's Kimberley Woods is the Kayak Cross world champion.
00:26The 28-year-old, who claimed her first individual world title at Lee Valley last September,
00:30will be part of a Team GB canoeing squad full of medal potential in Paris, alongside Olympic
00:37medalists Joseph Clarke and Mallory Franklin, and Adam Burgess, who missed out on the Tokyo
00:42podium by 0.16 seconds. Despite the anticipated chaos, Woods will hope to replicate her Kayak
00:50Cross world gold and will also compete in the women's kayak singles, in which she finished
00:5510th on her Olympic debut three years ago.