The entire canoeing world knows Jessica Fox is a winner - her three Olympic gold medals and a raft of world championship and World Cup titles bearing testimony to that.
But never before has winning silver meant more for the golden girl of Australian canoeing.
Fox came second overnight in the women's K1 final at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup in Tacen, Slovenia, finishing only 0.13 seconds behind Slovenian gold-medal winner Alina Hocevar (81.61).
It was the 31-year-old's first race back at the World Cup and her podium finish came nine months after the Penrith superstar underwent surgery to remove a benign tumour from her left kidney.
"This is probably the first time a silver medal has felt like a gold medal to me," the four-time Olympian who won double-gold in the C1 and K1 events at the 2024 Paris Games, said.
