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About Wolfgang Ruck
- Wolf Ruck (a.k.a.
- Wolfgang Ruck, born June 23, 1946) is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s.
- He advanced to the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but Canada's K-4 was withdrawn on account of a scheduling conflict and a dire shortage of crew.
- Canada entered only four athletes to compete in the three Men's Kayaking events (K-1, K-2 and K-4).
- In the preliminary round, the starting times for the heats in these three events were sufficiently spaced to give some recovery time and thereby permit Canada to crew the K-1, K-2 and K-4 boats.
- In Canada's repechage round, however, the K-4s were lined up at the start just as the K-2's were crossing the finish line.
- In the result, Canada's K-4 would have had to miss the start waiting for their (exhausted) K-2 crew to make their way back to the starting line for the K-4 race.
- For this reason, Canada's K-4 was scratched from the repechage event.
- Needless to say, lack of foresight and planning on the part of Canada's Canoeing Team management in sending only four paddlers to compete in three events proved the old adage: "penny-wise and pound-foolish".
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