Planet Canoe

Richard Fox is the new chair of the ICF’s slalom committee. He shares his views on where the discipline’s at, and where it goes from here.

Belgium’s Marian Sarbu won a closely fought contest to become the new chair of the ICF’s Ocean Racing Committee. He shared some of his thoughts for the future with us.

Australia’s Dylan Littlehales heads to the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the best form of his life.

Nelia Barbosa talks about the thrill and expectation of competing at a Paralympics in front of a home crowd.

A chat with Team GB paracanoe athlete David Phillipson ahead of the Paris Paralympics. Dave was one of the last athletes to earn his quota for Paris.

Jean Michel Prono - the man who has been running canoe slalom for 20 years - says this will be his last Games in charge. And he’s leaving on a high, with the introduction of kayak cross at the Olympics considered a tremendous success.

Yves Bourhis might have been making his Olympic debut for Senegal, but he had the entire French crowd behind him at Paris 2024.

The Olympic experience: Czechia’s Gabriela Satkova and Italy’s Marta Bertoncelli talk about their Olympic experience in Paris.

A tale of two Olympics. In this emotional but uplifting episode Tokyo Olympic champion Ricarda Funk talks candidly about her emotions after missing a medal in Paris.

Sue Natoli is chief judge at the canoe slalom competition at the Paris Olympics. It’s her seventh Games, and she’s seen a lot of changes.

So what’s the secret to designing an Olympic canoe slalom course? We chat with Irati Goikoetxea and Sebastian Schubert, who designed the Paris Olympic 2024 course.

A chat with British Olympian Adam Burgess after he qualified for the C1 semi-finals at the Paris Olympics

On the eve of the Paris Olympics we chat to one of the French paddlers who will be carrying the hopes of her nation, Camille Prigent.

It was a day not for the nervous when Tim Anderson earned the right to represent Australia in the kayak at the Paris Olympics.

Our latest Path to Paris podcast features a chat with Tokyo Olympian Kimberley Woods. The British paddler is preparing for her second Games, and talks openly about her battles off the water.

In our podcast this week we chat with two-time Australian Olympian Alyce Wood, who will compete in Paris for the first time as a mother.

Eva Tercelj has been to two Olympics and is a former ICF slalom world champion. She’s determined to break through for a medal in Paris

French teenager Titouan Castryck is hoping to make his Olympic debut in Paris this year.

Dutch paddler Martina Wegman is preparing for her second Olympic Games after finishing seventh in the K1 in Tokyo.

Danish multiple marathon world champion Mads Pedersen is putting everything on the line to try and qualify for his first Olympic Games.

In our latest Path To Paris podcast we chat with Australian slalom paddler Tristan Carter, who was involved in a tense struggle to earn the Oceania quota for Paris 2024.

In this episode of our Path to Paris podcast series we chat with the Polish Tokyo 2020 Olympian and slalom paddler Klaudia Zwolinska.

Benjamin Savsek is the reigning Olympic and World C1 slalom world champion. He's also one of the nicest athletes you will ever meet. The Slovenian chats to Planet Canoe about his journey so far, and his dreams for the Paris Olympics next year - if he can qualify!

Curtis McGrath is the most successful paracanoe athlete ever, with three Paralympic gold medals. In our Path to Paris conversation Curtis revisits the day he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan, how he turned tragedy into triumph, and what the future might hold for the Australian.

Three years ago Amir Rezanejad walked for 16 days through the mountains of Iran to escape his country. Now he is trying to get to the Paris Olympics as a refugee athlete. We caught up with Amir after he competed at the ICF Junior and U23 canoe slalom world championships in Krakow, his first competition in three years.