For anyone who isn’t familiar with the intricacies of Canoe Slalom, they could easily think Tim Anderson – who was named in the Australian Olympic Team to contest the men’s kayak (K1) event – speaks about elements of his sport when mentioning in passing the words ‘intarsia,’ ‘leading leg’, ‘row,’ ‘steek, ‘loop,’ or ‘brioche purl’. But they’d be wrong.