Richard Fox is the new chair of the ICF’s slalom committee. He shares his views on where the discipline’s at, and where it goes from here.
Nov 15, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Belgium’s Marian Sarbu won a closely fought contest to become the new chair of the ICF’s Ocean Racing Committee. He shared some of his thoughts for the future with us.
Nov 09, 2024•7 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Australia’s Dylan Littlehales heads to the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the best form of his life.
Sep 05, 2024•15 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Nelia Barbosa talks about the thrill and expectation of competing at a Paralympics in front of a home crowd.
Sep 04, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 9
A chat with Team GB paracanoe athlete David Phillipson ahead of the Paris Paralympics. Dave was one of the last athletes to earn his quota for Paris.
Aug 30, 2024•14 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Jean Michel Prono - the man who has been running canoe slalom for 20 years - says this will be his last Games in charge. And he’s leaving on a high, with the introduction of kayak cross at the Olympics considered a tremendous success.
Aug 06, 2024•14 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Yves Bourhis might have been making his Olympic debut for Senegal, but he had the entire French crowd behind him at Paris 2024.
Aug 04, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 6
The Olympic experience: Czechia’s Gabriela Satkova and Italy’s Marta Bertoncelli talk about their Olympic experience in Paris.
Aug 02, 2024•11 min•Season 4Ep. 5
A tale of two Olympics. In this emotional but uplifting episode Tokyo Olympic champion Ricarda Funk talks candidly about her emotions after missing a medal in Paris.
Aug 01, 2024•13 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Sue Natoli is chief judge at the canoe slalom competition at the Paris Olympics. It’s her seventh Games, and she’s seen a lot of changes.
Jul 31, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 3
So what’s the secret to designing an Olympic canoe slalom course? We chat with Irati Goikoetxea and Sebastian Schubert, who designed the Paris Olympic 2024 course.
Jul 30, 2024•14 min•Season 4Ep. 2
A chat with British Olympian Adam Burgess after he qualified for the C1 semi-finals at the Paris Olympics
Jul 29, 2024•6 min•Season 4Ep. 1
On the eve of the Paris Olympics we chat to one of the French paddlers who will be carrying the hopes of her nation, Camille Prigent.
Jul 22, 2024•7 min•Season 3Ep. 14
It was a day not for the nervous when Tim Anderson earned the right to represent Australia in the kayak at the Paris Olympics.
Jul 09, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Our latest Path to Paris podcast features a chat with Tokyo Olympian Kimberley Woods. The British paddler is preparing for her second Games, and talks openly about her battles off the water.
Apr 29, 2024•11 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In our podcast this week we chat with two-time Australian Olympian Alyce Wood, who will compete in Paris for the first time as a mother.
Apr 22, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Eva Tercelj has been to two Olympics and is a former ICF slalom world champion. She’s determined to break through for a medal in Paris
Apr 11, 2024•9 min•Season 3Ep. 10
French teenager Titouan Castryck is hoping to make his Olympic debut in Paris this year.
Apr 03, 2024•7 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Dutch paddler Martina Wegman is preparing for her second Olympic Games after finishing seventh in the K1 in Tokyo.
Mar 25, 2024•12 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Danish multiple marathon world champion Mads Pedersen is putting everything on the line to try and qualify for his first Olympic Games.
Mar 18, 2024•6 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In our latest Path To Paris podcast we chat with Australian slalom paddler Tristan Carter, who was involved in a tense struggle to earn the Oceania quota for Paris 2024.
Feb 25, 2024•13 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this episode of our Path to Paris podcast series we chat with the Polish Tokyo 2020 Olympian and slalom paddler Klaudia Zwolinska.
Feb 08, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Benjamin Savsek is the reigning Olympic and World C1 slalom world champion. He's also one of the nicest athletes you will ever meet. The Slovenian chats to Planet Canoe about his journey so far, and his dreams for the Paris Olympics next year - if he can qualify!
Oct 30, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Curtis McGrath is the most successful paracanoe athlete ever, with three Paralympic gold medals. In our Path to Paris conversation Curtis revisits the day he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan, how he turned tragedy into triumph, and what the future might hold for the Australian.
Sep 11, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Three years ago Amir Rezanejad walked for 16 days through the mountains of Iran to escape his country. Now he is trying to get to the Paris Olympics as a refugee athlete. We caught up with Amir after he competed at the ICF Junior and U23 canoe slalom world championships in Krakow, his first competition in three years.
Aug 17, 2023•7 min•Season 3Ep. 2
A chat with Danish two-time canoe sprint Olympian and three-time medalist Emma Jorgensen about Paris 2024, embracing K2, dealing with post-Olympic blues and the importance of having a trade outside of sport.
Aug 13, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This year Robinson Mendez hopes to be competing at his fifth Paralympic Games, but his first as a paracanoe athlete. He only took up the sport after the Rio Paralympics, but the Chilean has already shown he thrives on a challenge!
Mar 24, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to a new series where we introduce you to some of the athletes who will compete at this year's Tokyo Olympic or Paralympic Games. In this episode we catch up with Dutch canoe slalom athlete, Martina Wegman, who is set to make her Olympic debut in Japan.
Mar 03, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Australians Alyce Burnett and Jordan Wood made their Olympic debuts in Rio in 2016. Last year they qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and got married. Since then life has been interesting, to say the least! We talked to Jordan and Alyce about training through lockdown, how Jordan broke his collarbone, who leaves the lid off the milk, and how the postponement of the Olympics might change their life plans.
Jul 27, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 2
In the first of a new series, "Paddle Talk", we catch up with two-time ICF ocean racing world champion Sean Rice. We talk life in lockdown, the emotion and effort that goes into becoming a world champion, his decision to move from South Africa to the UK, and how he almost became a British paddler. And much more.
Jun 30, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
