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

It was an action packed weekend in Wausau, Wisconsin (USA) for the 2012 ICF Junior & U23 Canoe Slalom World Championships. The women’s canoe field continues to get stronger and deeper each year, demonstrating their readiness for Olympic inclusion - and a pipeline for the future. Olympic inclusion would mean funding and resources to [...]

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 [...]

BREAKING NEWS: IOC accepts the inclusion of women’s canoe to the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing China!! The IOC decided to accept six new events to generate team atmosphere, promote gender equality and balance sprint and endurance events. These events are as follows: Athletics: an 8x100m mixed team relay event CANOE: Women’s C1 [...]