Claim: Roman Vajs backed out of three C2 team events at the European Championships.
Evidence: Vajs won two medals in the C2 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a silver in 1999 and a bronze in 1993. He won the overall World Cup title in the C2 class in 1998. Vajs finished 13th in the C2 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. His partner in the C2 boat until 2000 was Roman Å trba, who was paralyzed in an accident in March 2001. In the years after Å trba's accident, Vajs teamed up with Pavol Hric who had competed in K1 until then. 3rd C2 2nd C2 1st C2 3rd C2 3rd C2 1st C2