No doubts for Florence as he sets sights on Tokyo
TEAM GB - Three Olympic silver medals would be job done for most people. But David Florence isn’t most people.
For him, it’s a case of unfinished business, and gold at Tokyo 2020 is in his sights - but it all...
Woman Pleads Guilty in Fiancé’s Kayak Death on Hudson River
The New York Times - A woman accused of killing her fiancé by tampering with his kayak and then leaving him to drown in the cold and choppy waters of the Hudson River pleaded guilty on Monday to a reduced...
Some competitors pull out of Payette River kayak race due to safety concerns
KTBV TV - One of the largest kayak races in North America is making major changes because of this year’s snowmelt.
The North Fork Championship, which takes place on the North Fork of the Payette River, draws competitors from all...
70-year-old kayaker crosses Atlantic Ocean for third time
GRIND TV - That’s right: A 70-year-old man decided to paddle some 4,000 miles across open ocean – completely solo and unsupported – in a craft smaller than most lifeboats.
Not to mention, it was his third time completing a transatlantic...
Sancti Spiritus’s Serguei Torres to Compete in Canoe Sprint World Cup
The Cuban athletes will compete in the men’s C-2 1000 meters, event in which they ranked sixth in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games
Two of the best Cuban canoeists, Serguei Torres and Fernando Dayan Jorge, will attend the...
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...
Canoe Sprint World Cup series to finish on a high in Belgrade
ICF MEDIA - The ICF Sprint Canoe World Cup makes its long awaited return to Belgrade, Serbia, this weekend, with a field including Olympic gold medallists Liam Heath, Marcus Walz, Sebastian Brendel, Max Hoff and Ken Wallace, along with several...
Olympic medallists head field at 2017 ICF U23 and Junior World Championships
ICF Media - Olympic medallists Emma Jorgensen and Isaquias Santos head a list of more than 900 athletes from 62 countries in Romania this week to contest the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint U23 and Junior World Championships.
Jorgensen, a K1...
“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...
Rio silver medallist Luuka Jones enjoying the challenge of two disciplines
Luuka Jones is keen to brush up on her French.
She's also determined to push herself to discover if she can cut the Olympic canoe slalom discipline in a bid to pursue success in two events at the Tokyo Olympic...
OPINION
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...
