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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. 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.

8. 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.