Matt Ebden and John Peers won tennis gold, there were more medals in the swimming pool and a sailing silver, while Julien Alfred stunned Sha’Carri Richardson on the track
The flurry of medals at the mid-way point of these Games ensured that the Australian team have officially registered their best start to any Games in history. But day eight wasn’t all about Australia, as the athletics programme burst into life and the streets on Paris witnessed an epic cycling race.
Having harboured ambitions of representing the All Blacks not so long ago, Grae Morris used the valuable lessons he learned during a budding rugby union career to win a silver medal in the windsurfing competition off the coast of Marseille. Born in Australia to New Zealander parents, the dual citizen could not top gold medal winner Tom Reuveny of Israel but Morris was delighted with his second place. “That was awesome,” Morris said. “The best racing we’ve ever done. It was sick.
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