Heartbroken Team GB star DISQUALIFIED at Olympics 2024 as fans baffled at sport that ‘came out of Takeshi’s Castle’

TEAM GB star Mallory Franklin has been disqualified in a sport fans joked looked like “something from Takeshi’s Castle.”

Viewers could not believe what they were watching as they tuned into the women’s kayak cross quarter-finals.

Fans love the bizarre and unique kayak cross

Mallory Franklin was heartbroken after disqualification

APThe sport has been compared to something from Takeshi’s Castle[/caption]

RexThey race down a 210m course after a 5m plunge into the water[/caption]

The sport sees four canoes tipped off a 5m high platform and race down and a 210m course.

They have to perform a 360 degree roll at below a beam at one point and go around gates – either backwards if they are red or forwards if they are green.

Aside from that and the fact you can’t deliberately smash an opponent with your paddle – anything is pretty much allowed.

However, there was huge controversy as Franklin was disqualified.

She was deemed to have not completed a full roll, with the 30-year-old devastated over the decision.

Team GB launched an appeal but it was unsuccessful.

But the Brits have more medal chances in the event as Kimberley Woods has made it to the final.

And Joe Clarke is also in with a shot at gold after he made the men’s final.

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Fans love the crazy sport, with it compared to “Mario Kart in boats”.

Another added: “I put on kayak cross thinking it was just a little boat race and then everybody did a barrel roll under a limbo stick and I lost my mind.”

More reacted: “Watch the kayak cross finals now it is jokes.”

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