{"id":18833,"date":"2025-09-11T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:04:07","slug":"canoe-kayak-champion-fox-out-of-worlds-after-kidney-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18833","title":{"rendered":"Canoe-kayak champion Fox out of worlds after kidney surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Superstar paddler Jess Fox Thursday pulled out of the canoe slalom world championships, &#8220;absolutely devastated&#8221; after failing to sufficiently recover from surgery to remove a tumour on her kidney.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Olympic gold medallist has won 14 world titles, 10 of them in individual events to make her the greatest women&#8217;s competitor in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian revealed her condition last month and withdrew from the remaining World Cup events in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>She had been hoping to be fit for the worlds in Sydney from September 29-October 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time in 15 years, I won&#8217;t be on the start line at the world championships,&#8221; she said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I just won&#8217;t be ready in time. I need to put my health and recovery first after surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely devastated to be missing this one &#8212; a world championships on my home course,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old, the reigning Olympic champion in the women&#8217;s C1 (canoe) and women&#8217;s K1 (kayak), among six medals won across four Games, is also the current K1 and K1 team gold medallist.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar paddler Jess Fox Thursday pulled out of the canoe slalom world championships, &#8220;absolutely devastated&#8221; after failing to sufficiently recover from surgery to remove a tumour on her kidney. The three-time Olympic gold medallist has won 14 world titles, 10 of them in individual events to make her the greatest women&#8217;s competitor in the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}