‘Full-circle moment’: Fox’s achievement hits home
Canoe superstar Jess Fox has enjoyed the arrival home as an Olympic gold medallist before, but this time it was her sister’s turn.
Canoe superstar Jess Fox has enjoyed the arrival home as an Olympic gold medallist before, but this time it was her sister’s turn.
The cousin of Jess and Noemie Fox has the next Olympic Games in his sights – something that could strike fear into the hearts of international paddlers after the women’s three-gold haul in Paris.
Tom Green says he will have to shoulder the blame for “screwing up” the start of the K2 final that prevented him and crewmate Jean van der Westhuyzen from winning another Olympic gold.
A quartet of bronzed Aussies has finished just a fraction short of one of the upsets of the canoe sprint regatta, going down to world and Olympic champions Germany.
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.
Jess Fox showed why she’ll head to the Paris Olympics favoured to win medals across all three slalom paddling events after making World Cup history in her final Games warm-up.
Noemie Fox has earned Australia one of three Olympic quota spots in the new Olympic discipline of Kayak Cross, to secure her spot on the Australian Olympic Team alongside sister, Jess Fox.
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