When it comes to Olympic coverage, the press (guilty!) tends to focus on things like sprinting and weightlifting and basketball, because then we get headlines like "the fastest person alive," "the ...

Canoe and kayak sprint racing made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport in the 1924 Paris Games and became a medal sport for men only 12 years later. Women began competing in kayak sprint in ...

Typically, throwing up is a sign that something is wrong. But don't be alarmed if you catch 2011 Walt Whitman High School graduate Ian Ross getting sick behind a tree before heading to the start gate ...

Of the 11 Olympic sports that involve water, five—canoe sprint, marathon swimming, rowing, sailing, and triathlon—take place in the open water. Unfortunately, for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the ...

An athlete who has become the first Briton to win the K1 Senior Men's Canoe Marathon European Championships says the achievement is only beginning to sink in. James Russell, 27, said he started out by ...