The 2020 Tokyo Olympics incorporates 33 games. Paddling is split among slalom and run occasions, utilizing kayaks a lot.

Here are some vital realities about Olympic kayak:

Presented: Sprint kayak previously highlighted as a presentation occasion in the 1924 Olympics and was added to the authority program in 1936. Slalom kayak entered the Olympics in 1972.

After its introduction, the Slalom kayak fell into a two-decade rest, getting back to the Olympic rivalry in 1992.

Occasions: There are 12 run kayak occasions split among people. Rivalry incorporates kayak singles, pairs and fours races, and kayak singles and duplicates races.

In slalom, ladies and men each contend in one singles kayak race and one singles kayak race on a similar whitewater course.

New this year: The Tokyo Games mark the first run through in Olympic rivalry that ladies will contend in kayaks, having already just contended in kayaks.

A few men’s occasions found in the Rio 2016 Games, remarkably the men’s kayak slalom sets, were eliminated from the program to take into account sexual orientation equality in the rivalry.

Rules and strategies: Sprint kayak a lot of contenders fight more than 200, 500, and 1,000-meter distances.

In the slalom occasions, contenders should weave through in reenacted rapids, turning upstream or downstream around the entryway, contingent upon which bearing the door calls for.

Slalom competitors are decided by time, with time infringement for botches like contacting a shaft or missing an entryway.

Top entertainers: European competitors dominate in this opposition, having won most of the decorations at the Games and in big showdowns, as per the International Olympic Committee.

Hungary is especially prevailing, winning 77 Olympic decorations - more than some other nation- since the game was acquainted with the Games, says the International Canoe Federation.