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Planet Canoe
by International Canoe Federation
Canoeing is a truly international sport and activity. Anywhere in the world where there is water, there is usually a canoe nearby. The International Canoe Federation is the world governing body for a dozen different types of canoeing, from the Olympic and Paralympic sports of slalom, sprint and paracanoe, team events like canoe polo and dragon boat, to the types of activity you will find on lakes, rivers and oceans around the world, including SUP, freestyle, wildwater, marathon and ocean racing. We want to introduce you to some of the biggest names in our sports and let them tell you their story. Discover the adventurous world of paddling through insights and advice from the world's best canoe, kayak, and stand-up paddling athletes and coaches. We hope to inspire you to get active and on the water, while improving your technique too.
Episodes
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A moment with Richard Fox
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.
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A moment with Marian Sarbu
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.
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Australian Paralympian Dylan Littlehales
Australia’s Dylan Littlehales heads to the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the best form of his life.
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French paracanoe athlete Nelia Barbosa
Nelia Barbosa talks about the thrill and expectation of competing at a Paralympics in front of a home crowd.
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David Phillipson
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.
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Inside Paris: Jean Michel Prono
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.
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Inside Paris: Yves Bourhis
Yves Bourhis might have been making his Olympic debut for Senegal, but he had the entire French crowd behind him at Paris 2024.
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Inside Paris: Gabriela Satkova and Marta Bertoncelli
The Olympic experience: Czechia’s Gabriela Satkova and Italy’s Marta Bertoncelli talk about their Olympic experience in Paris.
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Olympic champion Ricarda Funk
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.
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Canoe slalom Olympic chief judge Sue Natoli
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.
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Olympic course designers
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.
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Inside Paris - Adam Burgess
A chat with British Olympian Adam Burgess after he qualified for the C1 semi-finals at the Paris Olympics
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French slalom paddler Camille Prigent
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.
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Australian kayak paddler Tim Anderson
It was a day not for the nervous when Tim Anderson earned the right to represent Australia in the kayak at the Paris Olympics.
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Kimberley Woods
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.
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Path to Paris - Alyce Wood
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.
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Two-time Olympian Eva Tercelj from Slovenia
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
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French slalom paddler Titouan Castryck
French teenager Titouan Castryck is hoping to make his Olympic debut in Paris this year.
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Path to Paris - Martina Wegman
Dutch paddler Martina Wegman is preparing for her second Olympic Games after finishing seventh in the K1 in Tokyo.
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Path to Paris - Danish marathon world champion Mads Pedersen
Danish multiple marathon world champion Mads Pedersen is putting everything on the line to try and qualify for his first Olympic Games.
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Path To Paris - Australian slalom paddler Tristan Carter
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.
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Path to Paris ft. Klaudia Zwolinska
In this episode of our Path to Paris podcast series we chat with the Polish Tokyo 2020 Olympian and slalom paddler Klaudia Zwolinska.
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Path to Paris ft. Benjamin Savsek
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!
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Path to Paris ft. Curtis McGrath
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.
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Path to Paris ft. Amir Rezanejad
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...
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Path to Paris ft. Emma Jorgensen
A chat with Danish two-time canoe sprint Olympian and three-time medalist Emma Jorgensen about Paris 2024, embracing K2, dealing with post-Olympic blues and the importance of having a trade outside of sport.
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Road to Tokyo - Robinson Mendez
This year Robinson Mendez hopes to be competing at his fifth Paralympic Games, but his first as a paracanoe athlete. He only took up the sport after the Rio Paralympics, but the Chilean has already shown he thrives on a challenge!
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Road to Tokyo - Martina Wegman, Netherlands
Welcome to a new series where we introduce you to some of the athletes who will compete at this year's Tokyo Olympic or Paralympic Games. In this episode we catch up with Dutch canoe slalom athlete, Martina Wegman, who is set to make her Olympic debut in Japan.
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Jordan and Alyce Wood Paddle Talk
Australians Alyce Burnett and Jordan Wood made their Olympic debuts in Rio in 2016. Last year they qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and got married. Since then life has been interesting, to say the least! We talked to Jordan and Alyce about training through lockdown, how Jordan broke his...
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A chat with world champion Sean Rice
In the first of a new series, "Paddle Talk", we catch up with two-time ICF ocean racing world champion Sean Rice. We talk life in lockdown, the emotion and effort that goes into becoming a world champion, his decision to move from South Africa to the UK, and how he almost became a British…
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Peter Kauzer talks Covid, Olympics and the pressure to succeed
In our final episode of "How Sport Stars Cope in Covid-19 Lockdown" Rio 2016 Olympic silver medalist tells us what it is like being an elite athlete in a country of 2 million, how Covid-19 has changed his sporting outlook, and the thrill of a possible fourth Olympic Games.
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SUP star Michael Booth
Stand up paddling world, European and Australian champion Michael Booth joins us to talk about life during lockdown, his plans for the future, why SUP is taking off around the world, and should it be in the Olympics.
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How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 4
German Ricarda Funk has already qualified to contest the canoe slalom at the Tokyo Olympics, which will be her first Games. American Kaitlyn Verfuerth is hoping to go to her fourth Paralympics, but her first in paracanoe after previously contesting tennis. She still has to qualify for Tokyo. Both...
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How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 3
In our third sport podcast we chat with Denmark's 2008 Olympic silver medalist, Rene Poulsen, 2016 Paralympian Scott Martlew from New Zealand, and Austria's 2014 Youth Olympic Games gold medalist, Nadine Weratschnig. They talk about how they are coping with lockdown, what their thoughts are about...
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How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 2
In this second episode of 'How Sport Stars Cope in Covid-19' we talk to Rio 2016 Olympic canoe sprint gold medalist Tom Leibscher of Germany, Australia's canoe slalom Olympic silver and bronze medalist Jessica Fox, and Paralympic silver and bronze medalist Charlotte Henshaw of Great Britain about...
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How sport stars cope in Covid-19 lockdown: Episode 1
The coronavirus has turned the world on its head, and everyone is learning new ways to cope. Among them are the world's best athletes. Join our chat with world and European canoe slalom champion Alexander Slafkovsky of Slovakia, Olympic canoe sprint athlete Linnea Stensils of Sweden, and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Canoeing is a truly international sport and activity. Anywhere in the world where there is water, there is usually a canoe nearby.
The International Canoe Federation is the world governing body for a dozen different types of canoeing, from the Olympic and Paralympic sports of slalom, sprint and paracanoe, team events like canoe polo and dragon boat, to the types of activity you will find on lakes, rivers and oceans around the world, including SUP, freestyle, wildwater, marathon and ocean racing.
We want to introduce you to some of the biggest names in our sports and let them tell you their story.
Discover the adventurous world of paddling through insights and advice from the world's best canoe, kayak, and stand-up paddling athletes and coaches.
We hope to inspire you to get active and on the water, while improving your technique too.
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International Canoe Federation
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Canoeing is a truly international sport and activity. Anywhere in the world where there is water, there is usually a canoe nearby. The International Canoe Federation is the world governing body for a dozen different types of canoeing, from the Olympic and Paralympic sports of slalom, sprint and...
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