SLALOM RULES A GRAPHIC EXPLANATION

Slalom Kayaking and Canoeing is an olympic sport that involves getting down a whitewater course faster than your competition. The courses are full of red and green gates. Red gates are up gates and green gates are down gates. There are from 1825 of these on a course. Your head must go through every gate. If you touch a gate there is a 2 second penalty. If you miss a gate there is a 50 second penalty. The full rules are obviously a tad more complicated but we wanted to give the basics here especially br, br,