uh, the canoe was invented by (native) americans, right?

[acroyear]

one of the few things where, like softball and beach volleyball, we should have an inside advantage, right?

well...

can someone please tell me why Slovakia has 3 golds in that so far this year?

Slovakia?

good grief...

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[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Same reason that, despite inventing the game, the British haven't won the World Cup in soccer since 1966.

[mandrakan.livejournal.com]

Lots of rivers through wooded country? Don't quote me on this, but I think that the northern Slavs have a long history of using long, narrow, shallow-drafted river boats that maybe weren't called canoes, but would have been identified as a canoe by an Iroquois traveller (if there had been one) as such.