Jessica Fox fights illness for two Aussie titles and Swoop Play of the Weekend
WHEN the going gets tough, Jess Fox gets going. It’s why she has earned Swoop Player of the Weekend.
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WHEN the going gets tough, Jess Fox gets going.
The two-time Olympic medallist should probably have been home in bed on the weekend, fighting off a nasty throat infection.
Instead she was on the water fighting for a couple of national titles.
On the final day of the Australian National Slalom Championships at Penrith, the canoe kayak paddler claimed two crowns in the women’s K1 and C1 events.
“I wasn’t feeling 100 per cent, so it was good to still be able to push myself and race well,” Fox said.
“I’m actually quite sick. I had to go on antibiotics yesterday and probably shouldn’t have raced today, but I really wanted to, and at least make a good run if I could.”
Fox finished almost eight seconds ahead of Ros Lawrence in the K1 final where younger sister Noemie won the bronze.
In the C1 she beat her sister by five seconds with Lawrence taking the bronze.
Originally published as Jessica Fox fights illness for two Aussie titles and Swoop Play of the Weekend
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