Australia’s flag bearer secured the first of a possible three medals at the Paris Games with victory in the kayak single final
Jess Fox celebrates after her run in the kayak single final which would bring a gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games.Jess Fox celebrates after her run in the kayak single final which would bring a gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games.Australia’s flag bearer Jess Fox delivered under huge pressure to continue her country’s golden start to the Games, winning the women’s kayak at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in eastern Paris.
Fox was in tears afterwards, embracing chef de mission Anna Meares, and murmuring “I need to compose myself” behind the podium before the presentation. Afterwards, she spent close to an hour with French, Spanish and English media. Fox said she tried to put the semi-final out of her mind quickly, and she saw benefits in going early. “Part of me was like, ‘this is good, it’s different to Tokyo’, but it just means that you got to come out and you’ve got to be the attacker and set the bar for everyone else to chase,” she said. “And so that means the wait was long.”
The medal is Fox’s fourth in the kayak event stretching back to London 2012, and her second gold after she won in the canoe in Tokyo. She improved her time from the semi-final by a barely believable six seconds and going through clean. It left her competitors having to take more risks to navigate the tricky course.The pressure took its toll on Funk in the final run.
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