On Saturday, he officially renamed Duckmill Weir as the Etienne Stott White Water Arena.
"The rivers are at their best for white water sport at this time of year, " he said.
The barrage offers white water rafting, white water kayaking and power-boating and was originally opened in 1995.
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Bedford's Olympic champion, Etienne Stott, is to have a white water arena in the town named after him.
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Organisers say canoe and white water enthusiasts from across the UK could be attracted to the new facility.
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British Waterways said it was building two more fish passages as part of a white water course upgrade.
In September, Stott had Bedford's Duckmill Weir white water arena renamed after him.
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The terrain they faced was formidable: canyons frothing with white water, vast, scrub-dotted deserts and the steep, snow-streaked ranges of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada.
Streams running off the southeastern slopes of the Andes soon turn into boisterous rivers with plenty of class III and IV white water rapids.
The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena will be unveiled as the Etienne Stott White Water Arena after a parade to welcome him back on Saturday.
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Olympic champion Etienne Stott has been cheered by fans during an open-top bus parade through Bedford and renamed a white water arena in his honour.
The Viking Kayak Club athlete won the C2 canoe slalom with Tim Baillie at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, just 18 months after a serious shoulder injury.
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Historically adventure racing refers to events that combine endurance sports and outdoor skills, such as rappelling or white water paddling, usually with a heavy focus on route finding or orientation.
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The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena on the River Great Ouse in Bedford opened in May 2012 after permanent slalom uprights, lines and gates were added to the Duck Mill weir.
White water rafting and horseback riding are also options.
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Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.
He added that while the UK market seemed focussed on "white water" liquid milk, there was a "huge opportunity for growth" for processed goods in global markets such as China and the Far East.
The rest of the year the Ladds do trips in the Bahamas, the Costa Rica Pacific Coast, or train kayak instructors on the Jordan River in Israel, or do white water kayak surfing in the ocean.
The Holme Pierrepont watersports facility was recognised as the best in the country prior to the opening of the Lee Valley White Water Centre and was the base for the GB canoeists and kayakers until 2010.
Put into place short- and long-term efforts to support folks to deal with the root cause of their resistance fear and navigating the white water of change becomes a less harrowing experience, for the pilots and the passengers.
Francois Moscovici, director of psychological consultancy firm White Water Strategies, said that there was plenty of evidence that people had a fixed, underlying "range" of happiness, which could be temporarily affected by major events, but not usually for long periods.
Below the 68ft-tall Cumberland Falls, about 110 miles south of Lexington in Cumberland Falls State Park, there are simple places to practice white water rafting -- most of the rapids are Class II or Class III, and the rapids are well spaced out.
There is plenty of hiking and mountain biking just beyond downtown, stand up paddle boarding and kayaking on the reservoir, nearby guided white water rafting trips, horseback riding and world class fly fishing, all of which can be done by outfitters who will pick you up at your hotel.
White-water rafting is possible year round, except during monsoon season from June to August.
We also climbed the rocks beside a roaring run of white-water rapids on rivers that have never been navigated.
Reno has found the money to spruce up parts of downtown and has turned its river into a white-water canoeing course.
Among the early-morning crowd calling in here for their double shots of espresso are game wardens, white-water rafting guides, wildlife biologists, wilderness hikers and road-trippers.
Chill with the howler monkeys and exotic butterflies while ziplining through the rainforest trees, or zoom down a river on a white-water raft.
The two are working on an economic-impact study of the restoration initiative that would create white-water rapids downstream of the city's largest spillway dam.
Last summer he and his wife did a Pacific Northwest road trip that included white-water rafting and hiking but also a few days in Portland, Ore.
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