WHITEWATER PARKS A REVIEW OF THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF WHITEWATER PARK DESIGN
May 15, 2021
2 minutes
By Eric Jackson
©Theo Desvignes
My first memory of a whitewater park was watching the ’72 Olympics in Munich. I was eight years old, and I have two distinct memories. Watching Mark Spitz win seven gold medals and watching kayakers race slalom at Augsburg.
It is only fitting that I am writing this article, 50 years later, in the parking lot of US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, at the Olympic Team
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