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  • Home >  2016 Olympics >  News

    Jess Fox's sister Noemie secures Paris 2024 Olympic Games spot in kayak cross

    Noemie Fox, younger sister of four-time Olympic medallist Jess Fox, has all but secured her spot at the Paris Olympic Games.

    10 June 2024

    Paris 2024 will be a real family affair for Australia's most famous paddling family, the Fox's, after Jess's sister Noemie earned Australia an Olympic quota spot in the kayak cross in Prague.

    The result all but confirms the younger of the Fox sisters a spot at the Paris Games, alongside Jess.

    Fox earned a silver medal in the new Olympic discipline of kayak cross to earn one of just three Olympic quota spots for Australia.

    "It's been such a long journey," Fox said.

    "I feel so grateful to have had the most incredible support team here with me and to be able to celebrate it and join the Australian Olympic team, and join my sister, it's so incredible and I'm so happy.

    "The semifinal with the reigning world champion, past world champion and European medallist was probably the hardest thing. 

    "So once I got through that and I was in the final, I was just wanting to enjoy it and not come last, and that's what I did.

    "Paris has always been a distant dream and one that I wanted to latch onto, while staying a little bit rational knowing that there were so many steps to get to this day and where we are."

    Fox, who will appear at her first Olympic Games, is the latest in a paddling dynasty that started with her father — British paddler Richard Fox, a 10-time world champion and bronze medallist at the 1992 Olympics — and her mother, Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Games for France.

    Sister Jess, with eight individual world titles as part of a total of 14 gold medals, is the most successful paddler in history.

    Both sisters were born in the southern French city of Marseille, meaning the Paris Games will represent something of a homecoming when they compete at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.  

    "I think [Paris] it's going to feel a bit like a home Olympics, being half French and with such a huge family and fan base in France," Noemie said.

    "To be able to line up with Jess as well and the other two Australians Tristan [Carter] and Tim [Anderson] it's just going to be so incredible and I can't wait to start thinking about that journey."

    Paddle Australia is expected to nominate Noemie to the Australian Olympic Committee in the coming weeks.

    The canoe slalom events get underway on July 27 in Paris.


    ABC





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