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.
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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