The Fox family is certainly the toast of the town after Noemie’s stunning gold medal triumph in Paris.
But with her victory in the kayak cross event — to go with sister Jess’s two golds in this Olympics — it suddenly meant there was one glaring omission in the family CV.
Noemie’s mother Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi was a superstar French slalom canoeist who won a bronze medal at the Olympics in 1996.
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And father Richard was also a champion canoeist in his own right.
Richard won 10 gold medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and also won three World Cup titles between 1988-91.
But unfortunately for Richard Fox he never won an Olympic medal, only managing an agonising fourth in the K1 event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
After her gold medal performance, Noemie faced the media with her mother and father by her side.
And she revealed Richard’s fourth placing had been a talking point … or, more accurately, a muted point.
At the start of the interview, Richard grabbed his daughter’s medal and said “I don’t have one of these”, prompting an immediate outburst from Noemie about her poor dad.
“I had a moment when I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna be like Jess or like mum, I’m not gonna be like dad’,” she said.
“I’m not gonna finish fourth. I’m not gonna finish fourth.”
Richard then admitted they had “a thing” with broadcaster Dave Culbert to “not mention fourth”.
“He makes this joke that I was fourth in Barcelona and I said, ‘Don’t bring up fourth in the final’. And he said, ‘I won’t, I won’t …’ But I was thinking (as well), ‘Don’t come fourth’,” he said.
He said it was “amazing” Noemie stuck it out because she struggled early on.
“I was pretty good pretty early and my brother quit when he was 16 … in a way she stuck it out longer than most,” he told Paris media.
“Until kayak cross it was, ‘As long as Jess is around there’s no place for me’.”
With only one selection spot available at the Olympics until the introduction of the kayak cross in Paris, Noemie’s role at the previous three Olympics has been as a spectator, volunteer and ground announcer.
But the introduction of the new event opened up the Games opportunity for Noemie and after eliminating Jessica in their four-paddler heat in Paris, she stormed through the rounds to win gold in Monday’s final.
In Tokyo there were emotional scenes with Noemie embracing Jessica after she broke through for her first gold medal.
This time Jessica and Myriam both jumped into the whitewater rapids at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium to celebrate Noemie’s shock win with her.
Noemie said Paris C1 and K1 champion Jessica, three years older at 30, had always been her biggest cheerleader.
She said after winning their heat that her sister told her to “take it all the way”.
Noemie said she would look to defend her title in Los Angeles in four years time and again turn the attention her way, even if it was just for one day.
“There’ll always be that shadow as she’s the greatest of all time in our sport and that’s something when I was starting out, it was really hard to deal with,” said Noemie.
“I always thought that I didn’t get the ingredients to do well in this sport but watching her win, it’s just such a privilege and inspiration and it really fuelled me.
“It’s always been hard with just one spot available for the Olympics, but when there were two she really helped me and invested so much into my own campaign and self-worth.
“I’m her biggest cheerleader, just like she’s mine.”
– With AAP
