British canoeist claims "over spicy" OnlyFans content has sunk his Olympic dream
29 May 2025, 19:31 | Updated: 31 May 2025, 14:09
A British canoeist has claimed his Olympic dreams have been destroyed because of concerns from selectors about the "over spicy" content he posts on Onlyfans.
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Kurts Adams Rozentals took to social media to say he will not be able to compete at Los Angeles 2028 after he was suspended by governing body Paddle UK last month.
The athlete, from Staffordshire, claims this was due to "allegations" surrounding his posts on the adult content site.
Paddle UK has refused to clarify the reasoning behind his suspension, but the Brit took to Instagram on Thursday to accuse the sport's chiefs of taking issue with his online persona.
Rozentals' career had been going from strength to strength after he won the individual C1 silver at the World Under-23 Championships in 2023.
But after creating an OnlyFans account in January to help fund his training programme, things started to fall apart.
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In April, Paddle UK removed Rozentals from their World Class Programme - the UK Sport lottery-funded initiative to help athletes with their Olympic dreams - pending an investigation.
Rozentals has posted 39 videos and over 100 photos on the subscription-based website, accumulating more than 10,000 likes.
Posting a statement to his Instagram account on Wednesday, Rozentals said: "I have been posting videos (on Instagram) that are consciously made to be edgy in order to drive conversions to my 'spicy content page' (on OnlyFans), to fund this ultimate dream of going to the Olympics."
According to Rozentals, a Paddle UK representative told him he wasn't allowed to contact any of the staff or his fellow athletes on the programme while he was suspended.
"I couldn't believe the words I was hearing because this is what I put my life into this is everything I do," he wrote.
"My personality at this point, my identity, is sport and I want to be a professional athlete chasing my Olympic dream."
Rozentals says he turned to making OnlyFans content because the £16,000 grant he received from the Paddle UK's programme was not enough.
"I don't know how much you need but it's certainly not £16,000," he explained.
"When you have to cover rent, travel, food... and most athletes who train full-time are all living in London. They're very fortunate to have parent backing - I wasn't.
"I never had the ability to move to London because of financial struggles so I was always doing the travel from the East Midlands, where I live, to London, back-and-forth, back-and-forth."
