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you know david or the guy wanted in eastern parts of and the growth of the world's swollen championship he says man made horses are different from the wilderness environment of the texas and i don't remember his name but i met him about natural rivers and the grisly biggest challenge may be the one hundred at the grisly river rampage ryan has been transformed the wooded island the reverser fifteen years ago now he told me he had been there and seeing that rapid leaving them pretty dark in there and that some of the biggest white brown says now cleared investors can cross over to it on a new bridge trees and then had the idea of doing something like that that water on the whole force say dealing with some uncertainty to begin on the edge of the river had been removed and bleachers and set up all this other spectators the united states for people who enjoy the rapids with and on top of that it's dark bright sunny day can witness the nation's top men and women in north and kayakers compete and now park rides about training and competition cites her in here in people's a contract and you go in there and by the time you get to the end you strike closing down from wires strung across the river each pair of balls is addition to being your neighbor's husband is the nation's top the mirror and he recently can see pretty good and then all of sudden a bright light it again a gate with a traveler must navigate all while the water is moving at least two feet her second the only thing anybody besides going to the twenty five gates which are a numerical order and the green and white are downstream gates and the red and white striped walls are upstream games see right now is an order and you have to get your entire hadn't party about through the gate europe are currently leads in the women's division that's the only guy liner and so you can see people panic coming sideways even if they're a little bit off their idea line they
can still negotiate the day as long as touch the walls touchable and you're penalized five seconds this again it's fifty seconds and have no chains or pop finish this raises one more warm up for next year's olympics on tennessee's ago he referred only in this competition on amusement park horse is not as unusual as it might seem in fact it's bringing the sport golf courses were inspired by first artificial way or forced those built in augsburg germany for the nineteen seventy two olympics competitors will find out today that some days will
be inside the tunnel and just outside it to make the horse a real challenge most competitors admit a preference for natural river course is that acknowledge the opportunity of performing of nashville's biggest attraction in your job jacoby was a gold medalist at the nineteen ninety two olympics this is a great way to come to tennessee's vegas market you know the media market where the people are and most acting role most importantly where that the state legislature is because they were so crucial in game one or monitor i'm so that we can come into their backyard and showcase our sport not only is this race seen as an olympic warm up for the competitors but also for the fans regarded as the spokesman for the us you know the people who were knowledgeable of the sport of state it's very exciting and fun to watch or hoping to get into the main stream all that morning and share the exciting sport with them to get them excited about sports mlb of appreciate what goes on the values but hopefully start things become interested in
battling those babies the next olympic champion move them out of somebody walks by the grisly river rampage on saturday to pronounce but it says the number of potential spectators could range as high as twenty five thousand if so it would be the largest crowd ever for a national championship the competition runs from am to four pm tomorrow for wpln
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Bugg Stories vol. 1
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WPLN
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WPLN News/Nashville Public Radio (Nashville, Tennessee)
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A whitewater competition was set up at Opryland in the Grizzly River Rampage ride. Anita Bugg reports on how the competition works. Interviews with competitors and officials for the national championship.
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00:04:26.135
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Producing Organization: WPLN
Reporter: Bugg, Anita
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Chicago: “Bugg Stories vol. 1,” WPLN News/Nashville Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 17, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-18d65d2523e.
MLA: “Bugg Stories vol. 1.” WPLN News/Nashville Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 17, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-18d65d2523e>.
APA: Bugg Stories vol. 1. Boston, MA: WPLN News/Nashville Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-18d65d2523e