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Noemie Fox won the inaugural Olympic kayak cross event at the Paris Games on Monday to clinch a gold medal sweep for her family in the women’s events, after her sister, Jessica Fox, had dominated the kayak and canoe slalom races. Noemie Fox took the gold ahead of Angele Hug from the French home team, and Jessica Fox jumped into the water in joy to congratulate her. Briton Kimberley Woods earned a second bronze, the first coming in the K1 race, after original third-place finisher Elena Lilik of Germany was ruled to have missed a gate. The men’s gold also went to the Antipodes in the form of New…

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