Twins look for gold

The pair are bidding for a third successive Olympic gold medal in the white water pairs event but their physical appearance makes it hard to believe they are twins.

Peter is nearly 10 centimetres taller and nine kilograms heavier but they use the difference to their advantage with Peter sitting in the back of the canoe where his weight improves its manoeuvrability.

"Even from the beginning I was taller and heavier and that's how we picked our positions," Peter said on Friday.

"It's one boat and a pair of people, so it doesn't matter as much that we're brothers, it always has to be a team to co-operate and to be friends."

The 28-year-old brothers, favourites for the Olympic gold medal, clearly enjoy each other's company and they already know what they are doing when they get back to Slovakia.

"We are building houses together, next to each other," Pavol said.