Thursday, August 09, 2012

Fan of Google Doodle!

London 2012 Slalom Canoe Google doodle

After Tuesday's hurdle game and yesterday's basketball shoot, the Google has taken to the water with slalom canoe
FTW!.Google paddles ahead with its third interactive doodle this Olympics. Get ready to use your physical and mental strength to win the Canoe Slalom race.
All you need are your furiously fast fingers, an agile mind and your computer screens.
Google does it again (kill our productivity, that is) with the London 2012 slalom canoe doodle game. Brace yourself (or your fingers!) for this wrist-bursting canoe game which takes the difficulty up a notch.
Yes, it'll be a quite a bumpy ride ahead. The slalom canoe doodle allows the users to row an orange canoe with the left and right arrow keys and hitting these keys rapidly will give you speed. Be wary of water animals and sedimentary rocks on the way though, hitting these will slow down your canoe. The doodle also incorporates 10 downstream gates, marked with green striped poles.


What is slalom canoe?
Yeah.Slalom canoe began in Switzerland in 1932 and is also known as white water canoeing. It involves kayaking and canoeing, both. The players have to strategically navigate their way through the river rapids and the 25 hanging poles that act as barriers. It has been a regular Olympic sport since 1992.