The Olympics feature women’s canoeing for the first time
The activity now adds to a long list of Olympic sports that have recently welcomed female competitors. Women now have a chance to win gold in canoeing, some 30 years after it first appeared on the Olympic stage. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Canoe Flat Water Tickets from our website. For the first time, 22 women competed in an Olympic canoeing event on Tuesday as they successfully navigated the simulated rapids of a white-water course. The semifinals on Thursday at one in the morning Eastern Time will feature 18 of them. The final is set to begin at 2:55 in the morning. The 2017 world champion from Britain, Mallory Franklin, set the quickest time during qualifying heats on Tuesday with a mark of 105.06 seconds. On Thursday, other competitors include four-time canoe slalom world champion Jessica Fox of Australia and 17-year-old Evy Leibfarth from North Carolina. The event’s youngest contender is Leibfarth. Women have generally had fewer opportunities, according to Franklin, a pioneer