20 Jul 2021

Luuka Jones aiming for gold at Tokyo in canoe slalom

From First Up, 5:11 am on 20 July 2021

Having won New Zealand's first ever canoe slalom medal at the Rio Olympics, Luuka Jones is hoping to go one better in Tokyo. Her silver medal in 2016 was a surprise, as she only qualified seventh for the final, but from then on she has been at the forefront of the event - finishing second at the World Cup in Slovakia in 2019. Jones told our Olympics reporter Clay Wilson that finally being in Japan is a mixture of emotions.