Like most of you, I’ve been enjoying the Olympics from afar. Let’s hear from someone on the ground in Paris who can tell you how we go about bringing you the stories behind our athletes’ amazing achievements.
It was probably the 4x100m women’s freestyle relay win. A dominant victory against the best swimmers the rest of the world could muster.. And it was the country’s fourth successive win in that event. McKeon was part of the winning team in three of those efforts.
Jess Fox jumped into the water to join her sister Noemie celebrating a gold medal win in the kayak cross.If the Fox sisters had their own country, they would be ahead of the likes of Spain, South Africa and Argentina on theAs you can probably tell, I’ve enjoyed the Paris Olympics immensely so far. But I’m here in Melbourne, reading the same articles as you and watching from afar.
Then there are the things you can’t plan for, like swinging into action when an Australian hockey player was, getting reporter Michael Chammas and photographer Eddie Jim out to the police station where he was being held and getting on the phone to confirm the details.I’m no gymnastics expert but could tell how much fun she was having; she knew even as she landed those incredible tumbles during her floor routine that she’d nailed it, and the crowd fed off her energy.
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