The $10m medal: Australia’s eye-watering Olympic price tag reveal
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Olympic gold medallists Jess and Noemie Fox have been honoured with a sweet gesture ahead of a major international competition at home.
Triple gold medallist Jess Fox is returning home from Paris with a new-found fame and although it’s taken some getting used to, she is excited to share her golden glory with Australia after a ghostly Tokyo experience.
Canoe superstar Jess Fox has enjoyed the arrival home as an Olympic gold medallist before, but this time it was her sister’s turn.
Noemie Fox is ready for her Olympics debut in the kayak cross, revealing how sister Jess and her golden feats have inspired her journey
Jess Fox has a story like no other, and her historic win will soon vault her into the same air as Perkins and Thorpe, as sponsors line up to nab Australia’s Olympic hero, writes Robert Craddock.
Jess Fox has finally captured the Olympic kayak slalom title – the one she always wanted – 12 years after taking silver in the same event as a teenager in London.
Jess Fox is a triple Olympian with 14 world titles to her name but the one thing she’d craved so long is finally happening at the Paris Games.
Paddler Jess Fox has had the honour of carrying the Olympic flame down the same course she will be chasing gold. Fox is also the firm favourite to carry the Australian flag at the Opening Ceremony.
It’s the race Noemie Fox has been “waiting my whole life for” even if it means beating the sport’s greatest of all time — her sister Jessica Fox — to succeed, it’s what she is ready to do at the Paris Olympic Games. PLUS: Frustrated paddler Ben Manning quits.
The Fox family have had a rollercoaster of emotions in recent weeks after Jess and sister Noemie qualified for Paris amid tragic personal news.
Jess Fox is an established Olympic champion and Australian sporting star and now her younger sister will fly the flag for the first time in Paris.
Australian paddling great Jess Fox revealed her heartrate soared to a staggering 185 beats per minute in an emotional moment that she said was “up there with winning the Olympics.”
A former Olympic silver medallist and his brother have learnt when they will stand trial over an alleged plot to smuggle $200m worth of cocaine into Australia.
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