British Canoeist Banned For Two Years After Posting Explicit Instagram Video

The British canoeist Kurts Adams Rozentals has been handed a two-year suspension and kicked retired of nan Olympic programme aft posting an definitive video connected Instagram and misleading nan property astir nan reasons for his first ban, Paddle UK announced.

The canoe slalom athlete, who was portion of Paddle UK’s world people programme for Olympic hopefuls, was initially suspended successful April by nan governing assemblage and has now been deselected.

Rozentals had said he began utilizing OnlyFans to station “spicy” worldly to money his Olympic dream. However, a disciplinary sheet recovered that he admitted posting an definitive video connected Instagram that was “subsequently removed fixed its definitive nature”.

“The jock had intentionally misinformed nan property that his suspension was related to his OnlyFans societal media account,” Paddle UK said. The governing assemblage said his actions amounted to gross misconduct and brought its sanction into “serious disrepute”.

Although Paddle UK did not sanction nan athlete, Rozentals confirmed nan “very extreme” reward with BBC Sport and said nan prohibition would not person happened if athletes were funded properly.

Rozentals received £16,000 successful backing for his training, but he said it did not let him to beryllium a full-time athlete. “While I understand nan video could beryllium described arsenic crazy, it was not forbidden and surely shouldn’t beryllium nan logic for banning an athlete,” he said. “Looking backmost now, I astir apt wouldn’t station thing for illustration that. But I retrieve nan authorities of mind I was successful erstwhile I did movie it and station it. It was nan first clip successful my life I saw existent advancement successful my financial situation. It was nan first clip I was capable to money nan training myself.”