Do you think that, in a melancholy canoe-less world, you would have been able to reach your current level of competition in the event entitled kayaking?

That is quite the depressing hypothetical, but a good question nonetheless. If you were to take all of the canoers and insert them into the kayak discipline, it would make for some very tough battles and an extremely deep field of athletes. Naturally, there would be fewer spots in total, so it would be very hard to succeed, but in a parallel world somewhere K4C does most likely exist.