Grae Morris says Australia’s first windsurfing medal in 32 years is the “people’s medal” during a last hurrah homecoming for the heroes of Paris.
Grae Morris has declared Australia’s first windsurfing medal in 32 years the “people’s medal”, saying he’s used the month since returning from France to share his spoils with Sydney’s next generation of sailors.at Darling Harbour on Friday, the 20-year-old Morris basked in the fanfare of the hundreds of supporters who came out to welcome the athletes home.Getty Images
“Usually, I’d go to school, and people would say, ‘Oh, you go to the school’ – they think I’m new because I’m never there, I’m always training, and when I came back they’re like, ‘oh, that’s the Olympic girl’,” Trew said.Ruby Trew poses for a photo with schoolchildren at Tumbalong Park on Friday.Trew won’t be a regular fixture at school for much longer, with competitions in Japan and Brazil expected to pull her back onto the global circuit in the next few months.
Fellow sailor Jim Colley, who finished 15th in the men’s skiff, remembers when Malcolm Page showed off his Beijing 2008 gold medal at his junior sailing club when he was 10.
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