Their journey to Japan was far from smooth sailing but the Hockeyroos’ dream start continued on Monday.
When Steph Kershaw slapped in the Hockeyroos’ fifth, it was met with more applause. Ditto Grace Stewart after finishing their sixth.“Her coaching style is very much what this group needs,” Peris said.“She gets the best out of us all.
However, that’s as long as it lasted as Davidovich bounced back to finish off Millman 6-3 in the final set. He finished second overall in the semi-final to give him the second longest amount of time to rest ahead of this afternoon’s final. Wearn now currently sits third in the overall standings with 19 points to his name as he looks to push himself into medal contention.The men’s Olympics triathlon was hit with an embarrassing and dangerous false start after half the field dived in while others were blocked by a TV media boat.“Yeah, well, I could see the boat in the corner of my eye and thought this was strange,” Aussie Jacob Birtwhistle told Channel 7 after finishing 16th in the race.
Australia then made it three medals from three finals on Monday morning as a stunning final leg from Kyle Chalmers dragged Australia from sixth to third to win the bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle. Two years later and Kerevi’s Australian sevens side had a calamitous first half, where they hardly touched the ball and conceded 22 points.
Lay, who is ranked 156th in the world, couldn’t contain her joy with a series of fist bumps after her win over the world no.35. “I looked at that wave and I thought, ‘it doesn’t look that good’, so I let her have it and she turned it into a seven. That was the most frustrating thing for me,” said Gilmore, one of the favourites for the gold medal.
The team of David Barnes, Ryan Tyack and Taylor Worth were forced into a three-arrow decider after each team had won two sets each.WOMEN STRUGGLE IN SKATEBOARD TOO
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