Noemie Fox was finally able to chase her Olympic dream this year after a decade competing in the shadow of her sister Jess. The pair talk to SBS News about what it was like to go head-to-head in Paris.
Slalom canoeists Jessica and Noemie Fox have competed against each other since they were children but this is the first year they have both raced at the Olympics. Everyone in their family is an Olympic athlete: mother Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi won bronze at the Atlanta 1996 Games for K1, while their father Richard Fox represented Britain in the same event at the Barcelona Games in 1992.
We are close and talk about it, so I’m sure she knows how I feel. I’ve felt moments of guilt around that, but now being able to share this together is one of the greatest joys in my life. I feel like I had the perfect Games. It felt different to Tokyo because I’d finally cracked that "curse" and got the gold there. Here, it was about getting the kayak and defending the canoe , and the mindset and energy around the race felt very different.
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