Paris Olympic Games: Day 10 recap as Noemie Fox wins gold

The Canberra Times

Paris Olympic Games day 10 recap as Noemie Fox wins gold, Jack Robinson takes silver in surfing and Hockeyroos suffer medal heartbreak in the quarter final.

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00:00Another day over in Paris and if the Fox sisters were a country of their own they'd have finished

00:08the night 17th overall on the medal count and only 11 countries would have had more

00:13gold medals than their three.

00:15Noemi Fox stepped out of the shadow of her triple Olympic champion sister Jessica to

00:20win gold in the women's kayak cross, completing a clean sweep of the women's canoe events

00:25for the duo.

00:27If that wasn't enough for you, their mother is also an Olympic medalist, winning a kayak

00:31singles bronze for France in 1996 in Atlanta.

00:35It was the lone gold medal for Australia on day 10 while the hockey roos were heartbreakingly

00:40and controversially knocked out of the women's hockey tournament.

00:44Now some 16,000 kilometres away, the waves stopped Jack Robinson from claiming gold.

00:48He picks up silver in the men's surfing tournament in Tahiti, but the international highlight

00:53of the day, that'd be Mondo Duplantis, the men's pole vault champion who won gold by

00:58clearing six metres and didn't stop there.

01:01He lifted the bar to 6.10 to set an Olympic record and then on his final attempt cleared

01:076.25 to break his own world record for something like the ninth time.

01:12Now it's Mondo's world, we're just living in it.

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