Check out Sportscene TV’s “Women’s Canoe: Slalom and Sprint“. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOVtMkpZsw&feature=plcp And - Great interview with Germany’s Lena Stocklin (C1W) at the 2012 ICF Canoe Slalom Junior and U23 World Championships in Wausau, WI. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHbNlJJlI0&feature=player_embedded

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FEMALE CANOEIST CLAIMS LOCOG IS IN BREACH OF EQUALITY ACT 2010 Samantha Rippington, an elite female canoeist from Reading, will today launch a High Court challenge to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG’s) refusal to carry out an equalities audit of the Olympic sports programme. Ms Rippington, who has on a number […]

WomenCAN International is dedicated to the equality of men and women in our sport and also to equality between canoe and kayak (single blade and double blade). We believe in order to best represent our sport at the Olympics, it is necessary to augment the event and athlete quotas to accommodate the inclusion of women’s […]

By Elaine Keene (Canada) - WomenCAN International:   Abby Hoffman, the famous Canadian sports icon wrote the following in the Ottawa Citizen in reference to the 1996 Olympic Games: “There is no excuse for perpetuating the blatant sexism that persists at the Games. Not only do women compete in only 21 sports while men take part […]