It's done. The International Canoe-Kayak Federation (ICF) announces that the IOC has given the green light to the slalom qualification course for the Paris 2024 Games. In total, 82 quotas will be put into play for the Olympic competitions – 41 for men , as many for women – the same number as for the Tokyo 2020 Games. But, difference in size, a new event, extreme kayaking, will be integrated into the program for the Paris 2024 Games. One more event, therefore, but one identical number of athletes entered. A maximum of six athletes from the same country can participate in the whitewater events, including two in extreme kayaking. Main stage of the qualification course: the 2023 Worlds in Lee Valley, near London. Contested in September, less than a year before the Paris 2024 Games, they will distribute 15 quotas in men's and women's kayak, and 12 in men's and women's canoe. A global extreme kayak qualifying competition will be held in Prague in 2024, where three Olympic quotas will be awarded. But it will only be open to athletes who have not yet obtained a quota in a canoe or kayak slalom event. Finally, a quota will be at stake, in canoe and kayak, men and women, in each of the continental Olympic qualifying events.
