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1. Interview with Thomas Bach: Inside the 2020 revolution

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   A new dawn has come for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). After IOC President Thomas Bach's unanimously successful Agenda 2020 vote in December 2014, the time for implementation of change has arrived. AIPS President Gianni Merlo spoke to Thomas Bach about where the IOC now stands in terms of implementing new rules, and what some of Agenda 2020's more abstract points mean in reality.

2. Breakthrough-thinking for Olympic paddlesports program?

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   With the Youth Olympic Games being held in Nanjing, China at the moment we thought it would be a good idea to share a document Sportscene received a few weeks ago.We were asked not to share the actual document but to derive a schematic version from the concept.

3. IOC AGENDA 2020: The full picture unanimously approved

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   The full membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today unanimously approved the 40 recommendations that make up Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, at the 127th IOC Session in Monaco.

4. IOC President Thomas Bach and Jessica Fox discuss changes to the Olympic Games

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   International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today revealed the 40 proposals that make up Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, which will be discussed and voted on by the full IOC membership at the 127th IOC Session this 8 and 9 December in Monaco.

5. Olympic Games officials approved of the canoeing lake in Rio, despite the presence of algae

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   During their visit to Rio de Janeiro, representatives of 13 National Olympic Committees (NOC), among them former rowing and canoeing athletes, praised many beautiful areas in the city. Yet at the same time they expressed concern about the chaotic traffic in the area.

6. Thomas Bach continues evolution Olympic movement

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   IOC president Thomas Bach has continued his campaign for the evolution of the Olympic movement. Bach: “Even when everything is going well and everything is positive, it is still necessary to analyze what the future will be, and to prepare for new scenarios."

7. IOC President Congratulates Paddlesports on Innovations‏

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   Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), congratulated the International Canoe Federation (ICF) on its innovative approach to the Youth Olympic Games competition format, calling it spectacular.

8. Bach’s agenda 2020 headache: Sports, disciplines, candidatures, visits and age

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   It has been a hot summer for the IOC President Thomas Bach is travelling the world to be sure that the reforms he wants, through the Agenda 2020, can be accepted by all. He has a minor revolution in mind, but some of his colleagues are quite conservative, and it will not be an easy task to implement all of Bach’s new ideas.

9. Countdown to Nanjing Youth Olympic Games

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   The men's and women's canoe-kayak flatwater and slalom events held at the Youth Olympic Games will follow a different format to those seen at the Olympic Games and the ICF World Championships.

10. Perurena’s run for World Games and Canoe polo and Canoeing freestyle for the Olympics

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    Karate, aikido, squash - they are just some of the sports which are not in the Olympic family at the moment. But they belong to the International World Games Association (IWGA), which will elect a new president during the SportAccord Convention in Antalya.

11. IOC Confirms Lisa Carrington as Athlete Role Model

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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently announced Lisa Carrington (NZL), the Canoe Sprint K1 200m Olympic Champion and multiple World Champion, as one of the of 37 Athlete Role Models (ARMs) who will attend the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games from 16 to 28 August in Nanjing, China.

12. Olympics bosses’ ‘fury’ at Rio 2016 delays

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    Olympics bosses are leaning heavily on the organisers of Rio 2016 after growing alarm that the project is lagging behind schedule. International Olympic committee President Thomas Bach is in Rio this week for urgent talks with the Olympic Games organisers.

13. 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.

14. 2020: canoe Tokyo, wrestling reinstated, Bach new IOC President

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    At the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires on Saturday night, it was announced that Tokyo would be the home of the 32nd Olympiad in 2020. Germany's Thomas Bach replaces Dr Jacques Rogge as IOC President and wrestling remains in the 2020 and 2024 Games.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Wrestling makes cut for IOC session. Should it be canoeing’s concern?

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    The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today recommended that baseball/softball, squash and wrestling be proposed to the 125th IOC Session for possible inclusion as an additional sport on the Olympic programme for the 2020 Olympic Games.

18. Estanguet wins bid to be IOC Member

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    Multiple Olympic canoe slalom champion Tony Estanguet is to join the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee and will, in the process, become a Member of the Olympic supreme body.

19. 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.

20. Tony Estanguet’s 4-week wait for Olympic case

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    Tony Estanguet, the French three-time Olympic champion C1 canoeist, will find out early next month whether his bid to join the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee is successful.

21. Canoeing makes Olympic cut-off: now for the women…

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    The International Canoe Federation tweeted the news somewhat excitedly: ”So the International Olympic Committee has confirmed that Canoeing will be on the Olympic Programme for 2020 and 2024!!!”

22. IOC rejects Hungarian women’s K4 medal query

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    The International Olympic Committee has dismissed a bid to have the winning Hungarian boat in the women’s K4 500m Olympic final disqualified on the ground that one of its members was ineligible to race in it.

23. What to do when the sports career is over?

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    Tim Brabants knows better than most how important it is to have a career you can turn to when the Olympic sports career finishes. The sprint kayaker is a qualified doctor and will return to medicine whenever he eventually hangs up his paddles.

24. Tony Estanguet elected to the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee

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    Tony Estanguet from France (canoe-kayak) have been elected to the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by his peers at the London 2012 Olympic Games for a term of eight years.

25. ICF President Jose Perurena Lopez elected IOC member in Durban

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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced the election of 3 new IOC members at the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa.