ICF reverses 2017 Canoe Sprint World Championships Program
By John Mason | Photo: taken from Vote Yes for Women's Canoe FB Page
Yesterday the International Canoe Federation (ICF) reversed their 2017 World Championships Program which would have given an equal number of events for men and women. Gender equity...
Up the creek without a paddle…
By Richard Fox | Sportscene
If you’re planning to attend the canoe sprint world championships in Racice, Czech Republic, in August, make sure to check what events are on the program or you could find yourself up the creek without...
“IOC/WADA should reopen this case”, says doping authority Richard Ings
By John Mason | Freelance
Richard Ings, former CEO of Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority, thinks that the IOC and WADA should reopen the doping case concerning Polish sprint kayaker Adam Seroczynski.
Polish canoe sprint athlete Adam Seroczynski, who was fourth in...
Did the International Canoe Federation miss the boat?
By Karolos Grohmann | AARHUS, DENMARK (REUTERS)
The rapidly growing popularity of stand up paddleboarding (SUP) has led to an unlikely battle for control, with surfing and canoeing both claiming it as an off-shoot of their own sport against a...
IOC declaration on doping falls short
By William T. Endicott
Last year in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics, I wrote three articles for Sportscene outlining the parameters of the very serious doping problem in the Olympics generally and in Canoe-Kayak specifically.
On March 16, 2017, the...
RiverBox – a whitewater dream that can be “made in Marseille”?
Writer: Richard Fox | Sportscene
Rio Olympic champion Denis Gargaud has not moved far from his roots in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, not even while training for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. But before the “Marseillais” confirms plans to...
Rio 2016 venues are left in disrepair just six months after Games
“The legacy is incredibly poor,” said Theresa Williamson, executive director of Catalytic Communities – a Rio-based non-government organisation providing support to favela communities – in an interview with AAP in February.
“This all coincided with the economic recession but in...
Rio Olympic C2 Champion Ladislav Skantar: “to know our category is not Olympic anymore,...
Writer: Alyce Burnett | Sportscene
After the news that the C2 event will be removed from the Olympic program, the 2016 Olympic Champions from Slovakia spoke to Sportscene about how this decision will affect their sport.
In a bid to make...
“International Canoe Federation ban on Belarus thrown out by CAS”
A one-year ban imposed on the Belarus men's team by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) has yesterday been overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), reports Inside the Games.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Belarus...
Agenda to nowhere unless the IOC votes for ‘New Olympics’
Writer: Gianni Merlo, President of the AIPS | Photo: Getty Images
The mayor of Rome’s choice not to run for the 2024 Olympics less than one year before the final act wasn’t just only a hard knock for the credibility...
