This is not what kayak fans are used to seeing at the Olympics.Competitors' boats drop into the water from a 15-foot-high platform as three other paddlers work furiously to gain traction.Video above: ...

We pause in front of the massive Alkazar rock. Climbers hang on the bare wall. Cyclists whizz past on the cycle path parallel ...

Evy Leibfarth is a proud North Carolinian. Her home state is where her parents, river guides and paddling instructors on the Nantahala River in the western part of the state, first took her out on the ...