Olympic-level paddling ability is just the tip of her skillset after she cleverly repurposed a condom to repair her kayak before a medal-winning run.The Australian athlete shared footage of her ingenious repair on TikTok earlier this week, just before winning a bronze medal in the canoe slalom K1 event.
Australia takes gold in first-ever women’s canoe slalom at Tokyo Olympics The footage shows a member of Fox’s staff adding a carbon-fibre patch to the nose of her kayak, then stretching an Olympics-issued prophylactic over top of it.“Bet you never knew condoms could be used for kayak repairs,” she wrote in a caption on the video.