British canoeist Kurts Adams Rozentals has hit out at Paddle UK after they banned him for posting an ‘explicit’ video on social media.

The governing body announced on Friday that Rozentals, 23, would serve a two-year ban for bringing the sport into ‘serious disrepute’.

A disciplinary panel found Rozentals, who competes in the individual canoe slalom, of gross misconduct after he uploading a video of himself performing ‘a sexual act on an aeroplane’.

Rozentals is now banned from all competition and training, while he has been deselected from the World Class Programme, which is funding athletes ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

Responding to the ban, Rozentals described the video in question as ‘edgy’ rather than ‘explicit’ and said it was a ‘very extreme’ decision from Paddle UK.

‘I think th

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