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1. Widespread changes proposed for the 2020 Olympic games canoe/kayak program

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   The International Canoe Federation (ICF) have approved a race program with some striking changes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.

2. (Don’t) mind the girls: Bias in sports reporting

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   Sports journalists are failing girls and women worldwide. No, I am not speaking of fellow female reporters here, as some of the readers may think. I will not go on a tirade on sexism, bias and disrespect me and my female colleagues may have faced over the years of their careers.

3. The (Inter)national Canoe Federation’s gender problem

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   It’s no secret that the International Canoe Federation has a gender equity problem. Women are underrepresented both on the water and in the board room. At the ICF board, women account for just three of the 29 spots, and on the water women are still fighting for equality.

4. ICF to drop men’s K2 200m from Olympics

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   The International Canoe Federation has voted to drop mens K2 (kayak pairs) 200m sprint racing from the Olympic programme to make way for a new women’s canoe event.

5. Rio Olympic programme proposal: A STEP BACK

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   I have chosen to write this article on an anonymous basis. Not because I don’t believe in what I’m writing and not because I’m afraid of standing by my point of view. I want people to step back, have a think and look at it in a different light.

6. “Fox slams ICF over Olympic plan”

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   In contrast, high level female athletes continue to be significantly restricted in their access to canoeing events in the Olympic Games relative to men and will have to wait another seven years to see any change.

7. C1 Women’s Canoe Events Proposed for Tokyo Olympics

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   At the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Board of Directors meeting in Lima, Peru, motions were carried to support the inclusion of C1 Women Canoe Slalom and C1 Women 200m Canoe Sprint at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, and to guarantee complete gender equity across both Olympic disciplines (Sprint and Slalom) by the 2024 Olympic Games.

8. Ivan Lawler: women’s canoeing and the Olympics

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   Sportscene recently published Ivan Lawler's career memoirs, the five-time marathon World Champion also took time to talk to us about the future of women's canoe sprint.

9. IOC terms for women’s canoeing

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   Women’s canoe events could conceivably make it to a future Olympic programme but it would only be at the cost of an existing canoe or kayak discipline. That was the clear message from the International Olympic Committee which spelled out the hard facts to international sports federations two days ago.

10. Building a better world through sport

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    The 3rd International Forum on Sport for Peace and Development opened today in New York with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) honouring United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the Olympic Order.

11. Academic report shuns Rogge’s “major boost for gender equality” at London 2012

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    Peter and Michele Donnelly, University of Toronto, have released a report analysing whether London 2012 was in fact a model for gender equality in sport. Results are, despite more female athletes competing in every sport and from every nation, startling -there are still major inequalities across the majority of participating to be addressed!

12. An Olympic point of view

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    At the recent IOC Executive Board meeting, Canoeing was shortlisted for removal from the 2020 Olympic program. The exposure to potential elimination from the Olympic Games came as a shock to the ICF and the Canoeing community.

13. Women’s C1 will be on the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto 2015

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    PASO approved the Sprint and Slalom Competition Programmes submitted by COPAC for the “XVII Pan American Games, Toronto2015” with the inclusion of the C1 women event for both disciplines

14. Women’s Canoe - Long Overdue

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    An In-Depth Analysis as to Why Women’s Canoe Isn’t in the Olympics

15. CanoeKayak Canada and Community respond to ICF’s decision to maintain gender inequality

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    The International Canoe Federation decided to hold the Olympic program concerning women's canoeing unchanged in 2016. Below the response from CanoeKayak Canada and the community.

16. Upstream battle for Olympic canoe gender equality

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    In an Olympiad of so many gender revelations, canoeing remained unbalanced in London with females losing out 2:1 in the sprint with eight male categories to four and 3:1 in the slalom. Serious questions need to be raised before Rio 2016.

17. Towards gender equality in canoe slalom in 2016

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    Currently at the Olympic Games in Canoe Slalom it is only possible for one female athlete per nation to compete out of a possible 5 athletes. Can the sport make steps towards gender equity before the next Olympics?

18. Jess Fox answering some hard questions concerning Women’s C1

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    Sportscene Director Rob interviewed Jess Fox, London 2012 K1 slalom silver-medallist, in La Seu d'Urgell at the third World Cup Canoe Slalom about her thoughts on the gender equality issue surrounding Olympic women's canoe disciplines.

19. Gender equality in women’s canoeing: links to media

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    On this page you will find an overview of articles and other kind of publications in the media that discuss the topic of gender equality in women's canoeing.

20. ICF President José Perurena López addresses gender equality in Canoeing at London 2012

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    Top on his list of priority is leveling the playing field in terms of gender representation in both Canoe Sprint and Canoe Slalom, the two Canoeing disciplines contested at the Olympic Games.

21. More women than men will represent U.S. at London Olympics

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    For the first time, the U.S. Olympic team will have more women than men, with female athletes accounting for 269 of the 530 spots American will take at the upcoming London Games.