Published: 30 July 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Jess Fox completed the race of her life in Tokyo to win the C1 canoe slalom yesterday, ending a heartbreaking run of minor Olympic medals
‘I’ve thrown up but it’s fine’: Fox’s nervous battle before gold run (SMH)
MALCOLM KNOX: After 11 world championship titles, a decade at the top of her sport, and silver and bronze medals in London and Rio de Janeiro, Jessica Fox has spent a long time saying Olympic gold is not a gap in her resume. For the past two days, after her second bronze in the K1 slalom, she had to keep telling herself: It’s not all about gold.
But by Thursday afternoon, maybe, it was.
Jess Fox a fitting victor in Olympics arena she has dominated for so long (Guardian)
Having fallen just short at three consecutive Games, Australia’s slalom queen finally struck gold
Jess Fox wins Tokyo Olympics gold in C1 canoe slalom (ABC)
Jess Fox has won the C1 canoe slalom final at Tokyo 2020, to finally claim the Olympic gold medal that had previously eluded her. Fox had earlier won bronze in the K1 class, in an event in which she was highly favoured to take gold.
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Funk spoils the party but it’s Fox who’s the gatecrasher (SMH)
MACLOLM KNOX: A curse on that dangling pole! It was Gate 4 this time, the candy-striped barber’s pole apparently lowering itself from its wire at just the wrong moment to tap Jessica Fox on the left shoulder, as if to whisper some bad news on her way through.
Photo: Jessica Fox celebrates after winning the C1 slalom final (Joe Giddens/AAP)
