She's beautiful, bilingual and above all the best slalom canoeist in the world and Jessica Fox could become Australia's biggest star of the Paris Olympics.
With the addition of canoe cross to the 2024 program, the France-born Fox will start hot favourite to achieve the rare feat of winning three gold medals at the one Games.
While eight swimmers have done so, including Emma McKeon (who won four in Tokyo three years ago) and Kaylee McKeown (three in Tokyo), the only other Australian athletes to have won three at a single Olympics are swimmer Shane Gould in 1972 and athletics great Betty Cuthbert.
The late sprint sensation won gold in the 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4x100m relay 68 years ago at the Melbourne Olympics.
What sets Fox apart is that she would join Gould as Australian athletes to win three individual gold medals at a single Games, rather than having relay gold in the mix.
Fox is the reigning Olympic champion in the C1 (canoe) while she has also won silver and two bronze medals in the K1 (kayak) over three Games.
