“Planet Canoe are you serious?”
Vavra Hradilek - Planet Canoe are you serious? Am I at the same World Cup event as this guy who has written this article ? I have not seen any athletes or coaches giving thumbs up to the change...
Widespread changes proposed for the 2020 Olympic games canoe/kayak program
Written by Gentoo Sports
The International Canoe Federation (ICF) have approved a race program with some striking changes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. These changes still need to be ratified by the International Olympic Association (IOC) but it is hard...
Olympics & Gender Equality: Why Focusing on Men “Losing” and Women “Winning” Misses...
By Pam Boteler | President of WomenCAN International
The title of your June 20, 2017 article “Olympic Canoeing Prizes Balance and Adds More Women to Provide it”, by Brian Pinelli, caught my attention and, initially, added to my excitement about...
Olympic medal winner Thomas Schmidt develops the “intelligent slalom gate”
"Intelligent slalom gates" - A revolution in canoe slalom? Thomas Schmidt, Sydney 2000 Gold medal winner in the K1, has developed an intelligent slalom gate by putting movement sensors in the poles. The challenge is to distinguish between the...
Joe Clarke ready to go extra mile to repeat Olympic glory
ABERDEEN EVENING EXPRESS - Joe Clarke is determined to go the extra mile again over the next Olympic cycle as he targets a successful defence of his K1 canoe slalom gold in Tokyo.
The 24-year-old’s victory in Rio was one of...
Jess Fox protests against easier women’s course at World Cup
NICOLE JEFFERY | THE AUSTRALIAN - Olympic canoe slalom medallist Jess Fox has accused her international federation of setting the sport back 40 years by making the women’s C1 course easier than the men’s at the World Cup event...
