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The great paddling team ballsport
Canoe Polo is a spectacular team game, which combines elements of water polo, basketball and canoeing! The game is played by two teams of five players each, trying to score goals with a waterpolo ball in a net suspended above the water at each end of a "playing pitch", which is often a swimming pool. The fast, exciting game is played in two halves of ten minutes each, and produces fast, robust action, where a wide range of skills, including the Eskimo roll, are regularly used.
The paddlers use short, manoeuvrable polo-boat kayaks, paddled with two-bladed paddles and wear helmets, facemasks and lifejackets for safety and protection.
Four times Olympic medallist Saul Cravitto talked about postponement of Olympic Games and difficult times the world and Spain encountered this year. 35-year-old paddler agrees that postponement of the Games was sensible, even though it was hard to accept it after three years of hard training. He pointed out he and his teammates will try even harder because their country deserves some joy.
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The pandemic turned everything upside down this year and sport is no exception. Organisers of ECA European Championships which were supposed to be organised this year managed to find new dates in autumn if the health situation will allow it, however, for senior canoe slalom European Championships a new organiser had to be found. Czech Canoe Union offered the organisation of the championships in second half of September and ECA’s board of directors accepted the offer.
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ECA's board of directors confirmed new dates for majority of this year’s scheduled European Championships.
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