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Canoeing’s most famous double act is headed back to the Olympics again, and the home country expects another victory.

It’s OK. Peter and Pavol Hochschorner are used to it.

The twins are sporting icons in Slovakia after winning canoe slalom’s C-2 event at the last three summer games, accounting for almost half of their country’s gold medals since gaining independence from Czechoslovakia in 1993.

A fourth consecutive Olympic title  …  More

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Organised canoe and kayak racing began in the mid-19th century, and clubs had formed in London and New York by 1871, while the first women’s competition was run in Russia.

Popular in Europe, canoeing was a demonstration Olympic sport at the 1924 Paris Games and flatwater canoeing made its full debut 12 years later in Berlin   …  More

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