diff --git a/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/main.py b/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/main.py
index 2728532c..b29fb55f 100755
--- a/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/main.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/main.py
@@ -1,25 +1,18 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import json
-import sys
-import logging
 
 import falcon
 from wsgiref import simple_server
-from opentelemetry import trace
-from opentelemetry.trace import SpanKind
 
 
-tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
-
 class HelloWorldResource(object):
     def on_get(self, req, resp):
         """Handles GET requests"""
-        with tracer.start_as_current_span('internal_span', kind=SpanKind.INTERNAL) as span:
-            resp.body = json.dumps({'ok': True})
+        resp.body = json.dumps({'ok': True})
 
 
-app = falcon.API()
+app = falcon.App()
 
 app.add_route('/hello', HelloWorldResource())
 
diff --git a/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/requirements.txt b/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/requirements.txt
index 6ca0945d..e7f9df6d 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/requirements.txt
+++ b/opentelemetry-tracing/opentelemetry-python-tracing/falcon/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-falcon==2.0.0
+falcon~=3.0
 splunk-opentelemetry[all]>=0.17.0