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Kayaking on the Deerfield River.
(Photo Credit: via Flickr by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism)

A Closer Look At Deerfield River’s (Possible) Olympic Spotlight

by: Kari Njiiri July 22, 2015

Olympians on the Deerfield River. That’s the proposal from Boston 2024. The group hoping to bring the Summer Games to Massachusetts has picked the Deerfield to host Olympic whitewater slalom.

The Greenfield Recorder‘s Tom Relihan got to wondering how that would work. He says the course would be a rare natural setting for the competition.

Listen to Relihan’s interview with New England Public Radio’s Kari Njiiri by clicking the audio player above.

Keywords: Boston 2024, Deerfield River, Greenfield Recorder, Tom Relihan

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