Off Track ..... Sisterly love inspires Oblinger-Peters

Austria's Violetta Oblinger-Peters, who only took up kayaking to keep an eye out for her younger brother, reached the Olympic white water kayak finals on Wednesday.

Oblinger-Peters went against the advice of her father, German white water canoe world champion Wolfgang Peters, in taking up the sport.

"My family really didn't want me to start kayaking," Oblinger-Peters said. "They know it's a sport you have to be passionate about because you don't get any money, it's very expensive and it's very hard work for very little return.