Ocoee Whitewater Center
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| Ocoee Whitewater Center panorama with river bed without water | |
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| place | north of McCaysville , Polk County |
| opening | 1996 |
| capacity | 14,000 |
The Ocoee Whitewater Center is a sports facility in the US state of Tennessee in Polk County north of McCaysville .
The 14,000-spectator sports facility , 210 kilometers north of Atlanta , was the venue for the canoe slalom competitions, which were held for the third time at the 1996 Summer Olympics after Munich and Barcelona . It was built for the Games and completed in 1996. For the first time in Olympic history, a nature course was used to hold slalom competitions.
Construction and dimensions of the whitewater route
For the Olympic Games, obstacles were built in the Upper Ocoee River and the 60 m wide river bed in the area of the whitewater facility narrowed to around 20 m. This is still around twice as wide as most man-made whitewater canals. Despite the reduced width, 34 m³ / s of water were required for the competitions, which corresponds to twice the amount of water from electrically operated canals. As the only Olympic whitewater course in a natural river bed so far, it offered the largest amount of water, the greatest difference in altitude (9 m) and with a length of 415 m also the greatest gradient (2.2%). The younger Olympic whitewater channels were built closer to the venues and operated with pumps. Your narrow concrete channels are planned in such a way that the energy costs for the pumps are as low as possible.
today
The Upper Ocoee River is usually dry because of multiple hydroelectric plants . The Upper Ocoee River is now flooded for commercial rafting on summer weekends around noon and can then also be used by canoeists .
source
- "City Guide Atlanta - All sports facilities and sights", sports picture from June 26, 1996, pp. 37-48
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spotlight: Ocoee Whitewater Center, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Terry McDonald, US Forest Service, Recreation.gov
- ^ Ocoee - Upper Ocoee - Ocoee # 3 to Ocoee # 2 Dam, National River Database, American Whitewater
- ^ Website of the construction company of the Helliniko Olympic Canoe / Kayak Slalom Center
- ↑ Olympic Report Atlanta 1996 , Volume 1, Planning and Organization, pages 400-401
- ↑ Ocoee Whitewater Center on blueridgemountains.com (English)
- ^ Ocoee 3 operator , schedule for recreational water drainage
Competition venues for the 1996 Summer Olympics
