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.

Path to Paris - Alyce Wood

26 days ago 19m 29s

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.

Two-time Olympian Eva Tercelj from Slovenia

Apr 11th, 2024 8m 48s

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

French slalom paddler Titouan Castryck

Apr 3rd, 2024 7m 18s

French teenager Titouan Castryck is hoping to make his Olympic debut in Paris this year.

Path to Paris - Martina Wegman

Mar 25th, 2024 11m 44s

Dutch paddler Martina Wegman is preparing for her second Olympic Games after finishing seventh in the K1 in Tokyo.

Path to Paris - Danish marathon world champion Mads Pedersen

Mar 18th, 2024 6m 18s

Danish multiple marathon world champion Mads Pedersen is putting everything on the line to try and qualify for his first Olympic Games.

Path To Paris - Australian slalom paddler Tristan Carter

Feb 25th, 2024 13m 29s

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.

Path to Paris ft. Klaudia Zwolinska

Feb 8th, 2024 9m 51s

In this episode of our Path to Paris podcast series we chat with the Polish Tokyo 2020 Olympian and slalom paddler Klaudia Zwolinska.

Path to Paris ft. Benjamin Savsek

Oct 30th, 2023 23m 1s

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 -

Path to Paris ft. Curtis McGrath

Sep 11th, 2023 15m 43s

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 fut

Path to Paris ft. Amir Rezanejad

Aug 17th, 2023 7m 16s

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

Path to Paris ft. Emma Jorgensen

Aug 13th, 2023 25m 12s

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.

Road to Tokyo - Robinson Mendez

Mar 24th, 2021 13m 11s

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!

Road to Tokyo - Martina Wegman, Netherlands

Mar 3rd, 2021 17m 21s

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 Olympi

Jordan and Alyce Wood Paddle Talk

Jul 27th, 2020 29m 6s

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 tr

A chat with world champion Sean Rice

Jun 30th, 2020 29m 19s

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

Peter Kauzer talks Covid, Olympics and the pressure to succeed

Jun 19th, 2020 24m 10s

In our final episode of "How Sport Stars Cope in Covid-19 Lockdown" Rio 2016 Olympic silver medalist tells us what it is like being an elite athlete in a country of 2 million, how Covid-19 has changed his sporting outlook, and the thrill of a p

SUP star Michael Booth

Jun 11th, 2020 29m 57s

Stand up paddling world, European and Australian champion Michael Booth joins us to talk about life during lockdown, his plans for the future, why SUP is taking off around the world, and should it be in the Olympics.

How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 4

May 22nd, 2020 21m 4s

German Ricarda Funk has already qualified to contest the canoe slalom at the Tokyo Olympics, which will be her first Games. American Kaitlyn Verfuerth is hoping to go to her fourth Paralympics, but her first in paracanoe after previously contes

How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 3

May 4th, 2020 29m 57s

In our third sport podcast we chat with Denmark's 2008 Olympic silver medalist, Rene Poulsen, 2016 Paralympian Scott Martlew from New Zealand, and Austria's 2014 Youth Olympic Games gold medalist, Nadine Weratschnig.They talk about how they a

How sport stars cope in covid-19 lockdown: Episode 2

Apr 21st, 2020 33m 9s

In this second episode of 'How Sport Stars Cope in Covid-19' we talk to Rio 2016 Olympic canoe sprint gold medalist Tom Leibscher of Germany, Australia's canoe slalom Olympic silver and bronze medalist Jessica Fox, and Paralympic silver and bro

How sport stars cope in Covid-19 lockdown: Episode 1

Apr 10th, 2020 25m 22s

The coronavirus has turned the world on its head, and everyone is learning new ways to cope. Among them are the world's best athletes. Join our chat with world and European canoe slalom champion Alexander Slafkovsky of Slovakia, Olympic canoe s

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