The first recorded competitive canoe sprint race took place at the British Royal Canoe Club in 1869. Canoe and kayak races feature on the Olympic Games programme, each with its own specific rules.

As world source of reference for Olympic knowledge, the mission of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre is to ensure that this knowledge is permanently enriched and made accessible. Through our programmes ...

Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian will oversee the city’s handling of the 2026 World Cup, the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and other large events once he leaves office.

Tire giant Bridgestone Corp. announced on Oct. 1 that it will end its contract with the International Olympic Committee at the end of this year, making it the last remaining Japanese company to ...

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Three-time Olympic gold medalist dressage star Charlotte Dujardin has been banned for one year and fined for "excessively" whipping a horse. Video went viral just days before the beginning of the ...

IAN HERBERT AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: The stadium illuminated by such brilliance these past weeks was cast into darkness as the Olympics closing ceremony's theatrical element began last night.

The winner of the upcoming trials at Liverpool’s Queens Place Emera Centre earns the right to represent Canada at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy. The winning team will ...

GENEVA — Olympic leaders are “very confident and relaxed” about working with the incoming Trump administration ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games, outgoing IOC president Thomas Bach ...