Ocoee Whitewater Center
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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, and it is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slal
Scale model, 1:10, built to study proposed narrowing of the Upper Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympic games.
Riverbed before construction, with lines showing proposed new shorelines.
Finish line for 1996 Olympics. Midstream camera is mounted on the boulder in Humongous Rapid.
Toccoa/Ocoee River
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The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a tri
Ocoee Whitewater Center
…and Segre Olympic Park for the 1992 Barcelona Games. The 1996 Atlanta Games produced the third such venue by modifying the then-dry streambed of the Upper Ocoee River. As the only in-river Olympic venue, it had the greatest water volume, the highest drop, and the steepest slope. The more recent Olympic venues, built…
TVA's Ocoee Dam No. 3 on the Ocoee River in Polk County, Tennessee, ca. 1945
Detail of a bridge built over the river for the 1996 Olympics.