No gold but four medals for Australia on day 9. Nicola Olyslagers claimed silver and Eleanor Patterson took home bronze in women’s high jump. Meg Harris (women’s 50m freestyle) and the women’s 4x100m medley relay team both won silver.
Novak Djokovic won the elusive tennis gold medal, defeating Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 7-6 in the men’s singles final, reversing the result of Wimbledon singles final last month.
And Noah Lyles won gold in men’s 100m sprint, by 0.005 seconds.
First day without a gold during these games but still plenty to celebrate!
Great 100m men’s final - exceptional
The Vatican said the Last Supper performance showed a lack of respect to the others.
But it has already been explained that it was nothing to do with the Last Supper. It was actually inspired by a 17th-century Dutch painting Feast of the Gods by Jan van Bijlert which features Ancient Greek Olympians and Gods.
However, the creative director of the opening ceremony, Thomas Jolly, denied the scene, titled “Festivity”, was based on [The Last Supper] painting.
“That wasn’t my inspiration,” he told BFM TV. “I think it was pretty clear. There’s Dionysus who arrives at the table … Why is he there? Because he’s the god of feasting, of wine, and the father of Sequana, the goddess of the River Seine.”
The idea of the Opening Ceremonies was inspired from the scrapped Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony which was meant to take place inside a stadium
What a weird thing to say. I have seen better performances from Australians.
What are you on about?
I’m not sure what this has to do with Australians?
It was truly an equine-like photo finish! That wait was so nerve wracking
At issue is the US’s Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, which grants the US extraterritorial powers over sporting events involving American athletes. (It is named after the Russian whistleblower who fled to the US after the Sochi Winter Olympics and provided evidence of state-sponsored doping by the Russians, including swapping dirty samples for clean ones).
I just noticed in the schedule that they have “Sport Climbing” on tonight. I could be wrong but was this what they trailed at the Tokyo Olympics?
Yes and thanks for the reminder, watched a bit of that then, both 7Plus and I think Seven aired a little of it, was (like some of the other action disciplines added) actually quite a lot of fun to watch, hopefully it’s even better and Nine promote and air it a bit.
I didn’t even realise it had been added.
The relay triathlon has started. Tbh I’m very surprised it went ahead.
USA has shot to the top of the medal tally, 19 gold, AUS 12 gold. It was only 2-days ago they were behind AUS.
As often seems to be the case, in the second week once the swimming is over and the athletics start, our medal tally slows to a crawl.
20 gold seems to be the benchmark for a successful Olympic Games for AUS. I’m wondering if we will get there now.
Tokyo 2020 and Athens 2004 were our most successful with 17, I think that’s a bit unreachable. 15+ would be fab, but 14+ (equal with Beijing 2008) acceptable. A pass mark is probably more than 8 (London 2012) which we’ve well and truly already done. If we can get at least one more, that’ll be good. I think this’ll go down as quite a successful Olympics, headlined by the Dolphins and some memorable ones in Saya Sakakibara and Matthew Ebden / John Peers.
I’m holding out for a couple of sailing golds and maybe one at the track and field. I think 3 more in the next week will be outstanding.
I thought we had 18 Gold in Sydney? I recall for those Games the target being stated as being 20 Gold.
But I think they’ve also learnt since that publicly stating targets will most likely just bite you in the bum.
We still have a few good chances out there, but I think 15 is probably the reasonable number here. You never know, we might get lucky in a few.
Not even close