Australia’s Insane Games: Best gold haul since modern Olympics began

For that, we can thank a couple of Chesty Bonds paddlers and a skinny kid with a sandy mop of hair who skates with the freedom that our nation in lockdown so desperately craves.

To anyone who follows skateboarding, Palmer was a star well before coming to Tokyo. At the age of 14, he became the youngest winner of the Bondi Bowl-a-Rama. That’s a big deal in this sport and since then, Palmer has been carving it up on the pro circuit.To those watching top-level skateboarding for the first time, you should expect to see plenty more of this kid with a sun-kissed face and, remarkably for a skater boy, all his own teeth.

“It is nice to go surfing in the morning when you wake up. Then when I get back I do school for like an hour, an hour and a half. And after that I pretty much just skate into the night.“I can’t even tell you how much I love being able to skate every day, dude. It is like sickly. Being able to skate every day is insane dude. It is crazy you can do that.”The only other Games where Australia won 17 gold medals was Athens.

This is wonderful. However even more amazing is there were only 150 events in Melbourne versus over 300 in Athens and 350 in Tokyo; so the percentage of Australian gold winning events was more impressive in the past.

*equal best.

*qualification necessary cos Aussie had that one ripper year at the ancient Olympics?

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