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  2. Toccoa/Ocoee River - Wikipedia

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    The Ocoee is known for its Class III-V whitewater rapids, appealing to kayakers and rafting enthusiasts. It is also home to the local salamander, Desmognathus ocoee. The upper section of the Ocoee was host to whitewater slalom events during the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics held primarily in Atlanta, about 100 miles (160 km) to the south.

  3. Ocoee Whitewater Center - Wikipedia

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    The Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, was the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, [1] [2] and is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slalom competition. A 1,640 foot (500 m) stretch of the Upper Ocoee River was narrowed by two-thirds to create the drops and eddies needed for a ...

  4. Columbus, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The 2.5-mile (4.0 km) course is the longest urban whitewater rafting and kayaking in the world, and has been ranked the world's best manmade whitewater course by USA Today. [46] It also features the Blue Heron Adventure, a zip-line course connecting users from the Georgia side of the river to the Alabama side on an interstate zip-line over the ...

  5. Adventure Sports Center International - Wikipedia

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    Adventure Sports Center International is an Olympic standard white water rafting and canoe/kayak slalom center located on the mountaintop above the Wisp Ski Resort at Deep Creek Lake, McHenry, Maryland, United States. In addition to serving as a venue for slalom races and training, the center offers a range of services to the general public ...

  6. List of whitewater rivers - Wikipedia

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    Normally, the trips include rafting down all three rivers. Chuya river - Class V (VI for Mazhoiskiy kaskad). The right tributary of Katun river. There are regular competitions down Chuya on the Mazhoyskiy kaskad part - the canyon part of the river, which includes around 30 rapids, 10 of them are VI class.

  7. The Disaster Tourist - The Huffington Post

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    A former bakery near the new parliament building in Tskinval. PHOTO: KENT RUSSELL. Let’s be clear: We were engaging in “dark tourism.” We were poking around a “death space,” as specialists term it, a site “where the death of others is commoditized as a tourist product.” Such spaces, Young Pioneer traffics in them.