Czechs take silver in double canoe

Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondřej Štěpánek won silver medals in the double canoes final at the Summer Olympics in Beijing on Friday. They finished third in the semi-finals, giving a faultless performance in the final ride. They were only beaten by Slovakia’s Hochschorner borthers; the German double canoe Felix Michel and Sebastian Piersing were running second but keeled and finished last.