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How well is Australia doing in the Paris 2024 Olympics?

Australia has to win a few more gold medals to beat any records this Olympic Games. 
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A composite of three gold medal winners. Left to right: Noemi fox, cam mcevoy and Saya Sakakibara

analysis:Jess Fox leapt into the water to salute her sister Noémie, so often in the shadow, now with a golden lustre all of her own

Fox sisters sweep the canoe slalom medals in Vaires-sur-Marne, with Noémie stepping out of Jess's enormous shadow to claim a joyful gold medal.
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Jess Fox hugs Noemie Fox's face from in the water

'Gutted' Jess Fox misses shot at third Paris Olympics medal, but sister Noemie is still in the running

Jessica Fox says she is "gutted" that she won't get a chance to win a third Paris Olympics medal, but that she was proud little sister Noemie still has a shot.
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Olyslagers claims silver and Patterson shares bronze in the high jump, as US claims 100m men's gold in dramatic finish

Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson have secured silver and bronze for Australia in the high jump, while Noah Lyles has claimed 100m gold by the barest of margins.
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An Australian high jumper smiles widely and pumps her fist after a jump in the high jump final at the Olympics.

feel good:How two sporting heroes helped inspire their Olympian grandkids to greatness

Rosalie Evans was in her early 40s when a cancer diagnosis prompted her to leave her husband and take up kayaking — in a big way. Many years later, her granddaughter is gearing up for an Olympic debut in canoe sprinting.
A woman in a white t-shirt looks down at a blond little girl in a dark t-shirt who is smiling back at her

Jess Fox rewrites the history books in Paris with 'the most remarkable thing she's ever done'

Jess Fox's Olympian parents say the Australian's magnificent C1 gold to add to her K1 title earlier in the Paris Olympics will not be bettered in the sport of canoe slalom.
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A close-up of Australian canoeist Jessica Fox smiling at the camera while holding her Olympic gold medal.

One gold medal isn't enough for Jessica Fox — that's why she's swapping the kayak for the canoe

Jessica Fox is proving as relentless as Paris' burning afternoon sun in her hunt for matching gold medals.
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analysis:Jess Fox finally gets the gold medal moment she deserved, surrounded by green, gold and love

Jess Fox was already an Olympic gold medallist, and already an Australian sporting champion. But this Paris triumph, celebrated with friends and family and a roaring crowd of Australians, is on a whole other level to anything that came before.
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Jess Fox smiles while walking through the crowd with an Australian flag draped over her shoulders

The 'perfect result' that would allow Jess Fox to join exclusive Australian Olympic club

Jess Fox won the hearts of a nation three years ago with her gold medal in Tokyo. Now the Australian star is aiming for much more than a solitary gold medal in Paris.
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Jess Fox pictured on a kayak

'It got ripped away from me': The pressure, pain, and expectation athletes face in the Countdown to Paris

Qualifying for the Olympics and Paralympics is often a bigger challenge than the Games themselves. ABC Sport's documentary Countdown to Paris follows five Australian athletes in their quest to compete. 
Close up of para cyclist Alistair Donohoe who is shirtless, with air pods, sweating, as he trains in a climate chamber

Teens aboard tall ship rescue capsized kayaker from crocodile-prone Queensland waters

A group of young sailors spending their school holidays on an eight-day tall ship voyage have helped pluck two stranded kayakers from dangerous waters near Hinchinbrook Island.
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A tall ship passing a mountainous island.

No longer blocked by her GOAT sister, Noemie Fox becomes the fourth Olympian in her family

Noemie Fox has commanded the spotlight for herself, as she joins her parents and sister as an Olympian, being officially selected in the kayak cross for the Paris Olympics.
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Kayak cross athlete Noemie Fox has her paddle lifted over her head at the end of the race with a look of sheer joy and relief.

'One of the best days of my life': Jess Fox's emotional week highlighted by sister Noemie's Olympic qualification

Jess Fox set another benchmark in paddle sport history by winning all three World Cup events, but it came at the end of an emotional rollercoaster of a week that saw incredible highs of Noemie's Olympic qualification, and the devastating lows of losing her grandfather.
Kayaker Jessica Fox celebrates by clapping her hands, in the kayak, in the water and the end of the course

Fox posts World Cup milestone with back-to-back golds ahead of Paris Olympics campaign

Australia's Jess Fox wins her 50th World Cup gold medal after topping the podium for the second time at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup event in Poland.
Jessica Fox celebrates winning the C1 slalom gold at the World Cup event in Kraków, Poland.

Fox claims World Cup gold as Paris Olympics preparations ramp up

With the Paris Olympics kicking off next month, Australia's Jessica Fox's confidence is building after collecting gold at the World Cup event in Poland.
Jess Fox (centre) with Maialen Chourraut (left) and Ria Sribar on the medal podium in Kraków.

Paris sister act as Noemie set to join Jess Fox at Olympics

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

Fox claims second silver in as many days as costly penalties hurt in lead up to Olympics

Penalties hurt Jessica Fox's overall time as she claims silver in the canoe, a day after facing a similar fate in the kayak.
Jessica Fox

'It's crazy for me': Fox loses out on World Cup gold medal after crucial penalty

Reigning Olympic champion Jess Fox has been left to lament a four-second penalty as she finished with the silver medal in the women's kayak final at the ICF World Cup 2 in Prague. 
Jess Fox rides a kayak during the World Cup in Prague

Fox wins canoe slalom World Cup round in Paris Olympics build-up

With the Paris Games beginning next month, Olympic gold medallist Jessica Fox tunes up with a victory at the season-opening canoe slalom World Cup event in Augsburg, Germany.
Jessica Fox competing at a World Cup event in Germany.

Sixteen years after her only Paralympics, Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy wants a ticket to Paris

Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy went to the Beijing Paralympics as a wheelchair basketballer, now she's closing in on a ticket to her second Games, as a kayaker. 
A female Paralympian stands and smiles at the camera, with a lake and flags in the background.

Sisters Noemie and Jess Fox lift each other up on the road to Paris

Jess Fox is the greatest canoe slalom paddler of all time, but as she prepares for her fourth Olympics in Paris, she wants to see her sister Noemie join her as an Olympian. 
Three women, including Jess and Noemie Fox, stand on a podium with medals around their necks.

Strait to Tassie

Edward Hosken, Ben Taylor, Tim Taylor, Jono Hargreaves, and Matt Taubam from Sydney have kayaked from Gippsland to Tasmania to raise funds for the Black Dog Institute, in memory of their friend Dan, who died by suicide aged 17.
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Missing kayaker found dead off Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula

A water search off the shores of the peninsula has come to a sad end, after a body was found off the coast of Rosebud.
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Double amputee makes triumphant return to the sport she loves at National Sprint Championships

Shona Muckert relies on a wheelchair for many day-to-day activities but when it comes to competitive canoeing, her disability does not hold her back.
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A group of women in blue team shirts and pink hats hold wooden paddles and pose in front of canoes

Confused about how much exercise to do while pregnant? Elite athletes are too

Dual Olympian Alyce Wood found managing her exercise during pregnancy challenging due to a lack of research on the topic. She's now returned to sport postpartum but rejects the idea of "bouncing back".
Alyce Wood and daughter Florence on a pier, holding a paddle, smiling.