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Heartbroken Team GB star DISQUALIFIED at Olympics 2024 as fans baffled at sport that ‘came out of Takeshi’s Castle’
Team GB ended up winning two medals in the final despite some earlier disappointment
TEAM GB star Mallory Franklin was disqualified in a sport fans joked looked like "something from Takeshi's Castle."
Viewers could not believe what they were watching as they tuned into the women's kayak cross quarter-finals.
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The sport sees four canoes tipped off a 5m high platform and race down and a 210m course.
They have to perform a 360 degree roll at below a beam at one point and go around gates - either backwards if they are red or forwards if they are green.
Aside from that and the fact you can't deliberately smash an opponent with your paddle - anything is pretty much allowed.
However, there was huge controversy as Franklin was disqualified.
She was deemed to have not completed a full roll, with the 30-year-old devastated over the decision.
Team GB launched an appeal but it was unsuccessful.
But there was some joy in the event as Kimberley Woods won a bronze medal.
And Joe Clarke went one better to win silver in the men's final.
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Fans love the crazy sport, with it compared to "Mario Kart in boats".
Another added: "I put on kayak cross thinking it was just a little boat race and then everybody did a barrel roll under a limbo stick and I lost my mind."
More reacted: "Watch the kayak cross finals now it is jokes."
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