Fresh article covering popular water sports venue (3,6)

I believe the answer is:

the solent

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'popular water sports venue' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'fresh article covering' is the wordplay.
'fresh' becomes 'solent' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'article' becomes 'the' (the definite article).
'covering' says to put letters next to each other (on top of in down clue).
'solent' after 'the' is 'THE SOLENT'.

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