Jess Fox and Eddie Ockenden will have the honour of carrying the Australian flag at Saturday morning's opening ceremony on the Seine.
Slalom canoeist Jess Fox and hockey player Eddie Ockenden have been selected as Australia 's flag-bearers for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony .
Fox will be competing at her fourth Olympics, having made her debut as an 18-year-old at the 2012 London Games. She won silver in the women’s K1 canoe slalom in London and has since added three more medals to her tally, including a gold in the C1 event at the Tokyo Olympics.He helped the Kookaburras win bronze in the men’s hockey at the 2008 and 2012 Games, and was a member of the squad that claimed silver in Tokyo.Each nation will have its own boat to carry the athletes for the six-kilometre journey, which will finish in front of the Trocadéro.Sports content to make you think... or allow you not to.
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