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Who is Jessica Fox, the Olympian who fixed her kayak with a condom and won a medal

2021-07-30T15:03:56.267Z


The Australian became famous worldwide for her performance at Tokyo 2020 but also for the gadget she used during the competition.


07/30/2021 11:34 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • sports

Updated 07/30/2021 11:34 AM

Australian

Jessica Fox

will go down in the history books of the Olympic Games for having been the first champion of the C1 category of canoeing, but also for a fact never seen before: to compete in the best way, she

had to fix her kayak with a condom

and then won another medal, the bronze, in the slalom format.

What happened?

His kayak had suffered a severe blow in one of the tests and he had to repair it in some way to continue in the competition.

She and her team caught the light bulb and decided to use a prophylactic: "Very flexible and strong,"

Fox herself wrote in an Instagram story, where she showed how they made the improvised arrangement.

The story shared by Fox on his Instagram account.

"So much excitement, so much joy, so much accumulation right now. It's just amazing. I was dreaming about this and I really believed that it was inside of me, that I could do it, but you never know what's going to happen at the Olympics. It's about keep my nerves at bay and I probably didn't do very well in the kayak a few days before, so it was difficult to get to this point, but what I did today has been incredible, "said the 27-year-old Australian, who in Tokyo 2020 was He took gold for the first time in his third Olympic participation, after reaping silver in London 2012 and bronze in Rio 2016.

"I can't believe it. I am very proud to be here today in the C1 female category and I am very proud of all the women who have raced here and been part of this moment," she added.

Fox's statements have to do with the fight that he has been holding so that the representation in the category is equitable in relation to gender.

The joy of Jessica Fox after getting her first gold after three Olympic events.

At 27 years of age, Jessica's destiny in this sport was set by blood.

Her mother, the French Myriam Jerusalmi, took the bronze medal in Atlanta 1996 in the same category as her daughter.

In addition, he won 10 medals in the World Canoeing Slalom Championships between 1983 and 1995. And his father, the Englishman Richard Fox, was not far behind: he won 11 medals in the same competition, 10 of them gold, between 1979 and 1993.

Very active in her social networks, Jessica was born in Marseille but from a very young age she grew up in the country that her parents adopted as their place in the world: Australia.

And her participation in the Olympic events brought her to the fore, occupying magazine covers and sharing productions with other Olympic references such as swimmer Cameron McEvoy.

Jessica Fox, magazine cover in her country, Australia.

The kayak marks Jessica's steps and her heart as well.

For a few years she has been in a relationship with a consecrated person in the elite of this sport.

This is the French Mathieu Biazizzo, winner in various world-wide competitions.

Together they celebrated the Olympic conquest of the Australian, happy to obtain the gold in Japan and surprised by the repercussion of the resource to which Jess appealed to repair his ship.

The Australian athlete Jessica Fox with her boyfriend, also the canoeist Mathieu Biazizzo.

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Source: clarin

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