He Spanish slalom canoeing This Saturday will open the search for a fourth consecutive Olympic Games podium. The man in charge who was there in London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021 is a Maialen Chourraut which began his big challenge of becoming a medalist in four different Games. With him, he will also compete in the men’s C1 Miquel Travé.
Maialen debuted in K1 rating, the first of two tests it will face in Paris after the inclusion of open kayak cross extreme. Chourraut will have the main goal of reaching the semifinals to continue fighting for medals. For this you need finish in the first eighteen and will compete in two downhill races (the first at 3:50 pm and the second at 6:00 pm), where the best time will count. Maialen, one of the great candidates who succeeded in this first cut, wants to access the decisive day tomorrow, where the semifinals and the finals will take place.
There will be no shortage of top rivals. In a test with twenty-five competitors, his companions on the Tokyo podium, the Australian legend, will be excellent references. Jessica Fox and the German and current Olympic champion Ricarda Funk. The British Kimberly Woodsthe polish Klaudia Zwolinska or the Slovak Eliska Mintalova They are other test stars.
Now it is also opening its participation Miquel Travé in C1. In the same competition system, they will compete in two qualifying rounds with the aim of entering the semifinals on Monday, the day when the second screening will also be held and the medals will be distributed.
Source: La Verdad
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