JUST IN After their spectacular comeback win, the Opals have booked a quarter-final with the USA... who haven't lost a game at the Olympics since 1992. MORE:
The Hockeyroos’ stunning run towards a medal in Tokyo is over after India sprung a major ambush to win their quarter-final.Follow all of the Aussie news from day 10 below!A nightmare quarter-final match-up against Team USA will have done little to squash the relief the Opals felt after a less-than-conventional thrashing of Puerto Rico secured their place in the knockout stage of the Tokyo Olympics.
“It wasn’t the way we wanted to start. But the result was what we wanted. I don’t know. I asked Cayla [George] before what happened in that first quarter. “I think in that first quarter we started the game a bit panicked that we weren’t up by 25 already,” George admitted. Then going into the individual last round in fourth, he produced a flawless ride and took advantage of a mistake from one of the riders ahead of him, to claim bronze.
The New Zealander took up the sport before her transition and meets the IOC guidelines for transgender athletes.“Laurel Hubbard is a woman, is competing under the rules of her federation and we have to pay tribute to her courage and tenacity in competing and qualifying for the Games,” IOC medical chief Richard Budgett told reporters in Tokyo.SHARKS BLOODBATH NOT ENOUGH TO ADVANCE TO QUARTERFINAL
Immediately following Tim Putt’s match opener for Australia, Kazakhstan’s Srdan Vuksanovic was given a red card and excluded from match. The Sharks floated to a 15-7 victory with Rhys Howden completing an impressive five-goal haul in the second half. The Aussies were one of the favourites but ended up qualifying fifth-fastest, behind Denmark, Italy, New Zealand and Great Britain, meaning they cannot win gold or silver.
Sixth-seeded Germany stunned everyone by smashing the world record in qualifying, recording a 4:07.307 - more than four seconds better than the previous team, and almost three seconds faster than the world record set in Rio 2016.The Aussies then faded badly after a fast start, finishing six seconds behind Germany to be the slowest qualifiers of the session thus far. In the end Australia qualified seventh of eight, booking a heat against rivals Great Britain.
Moving 19 points ahead of second place Spain, the Aussie duo will now race on Tuesday to potentially lock up gold before the medal race - like Wearn did yesterday. Leaving his two most difficult dives for the end, with a 3.8 and 3.9 difficulty, Li couldn’t break over 60 points and was eliminated from the prelims.They went into the quarter-final as the red hot favourites after winning all five of their pool matches.as India took a shock 1-0 lead midway through the second quarter and defended for its life to deny the Aussies an equaliser.
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