🗞 Australia's Youngest Ever Gold Medalist

AUSSIE OLYMPICS
Gold, Silver & Bronze

🥇 Australia's Alisa Trew, 14, won an historic Olympic gold in the women's park skateboarding final.

Trew becomes the country's youngest medallist and she will stand on top of the podium. Trew scored a clutch 93.18 on her third and final run to beat Cocona Hiraki of Japan and Sky Brown of Great Britain.

🥉 Australia won bronze in the men’s cycling team sprint, beating France in their ride-off. The combination of Leigh Hoffman, Matthew Richardson and Matthew Glaetzer rode 41.597 seconds to beat France’s in front of the raucous and parochial home crowd.

🏀 It was heartbreak for the Boomers in overtime.

Despite shooting out to a 20-point lead partway through the second quarter. And, an incredible fall away jumper from Patty Mills tied it up at 82 apiece with just 1.4 seconds on the clock. The Boomers couldn't restrain Nikola Jokic and Serbia who sealed their place in the semifinal with a 95-90 win.

"We put ourselves in a great position to win that game and we come up short like that in overtime... it's heartbreaking," - Josh Giddy told Nine with tears in his eyes following the loss.

An Evan Fournier three-pointer from just over half court blew the roof off Bercy Arena, securing France's place in the semi-finals and a guaranteed shot at a medal after they disposed of the highly fancied Canada 82-73.

🚴🏻‍♂️ Australia broke the men's team pursuit world record on day two of the Olympic track cycling program.

The combination of Olympic medallists Sam Welsford, Kelland O'Brien, Conor Leahy and Oliver Bleddyn clocked four minutes 40.730 seconds to easily beat reigning Games champions Italy in their round-one heat.

That sets up a gold-medal ride today against Great Britain, Australia's long-time rivals in the event.

🤽🏻‍♀️ Australia’s water polo Stingers overpowered Greece 9-6 to forge into the semi-finals of the women’s tournament and another step closer to their first title since the inaugural event in Sydney 2000.

⛵️ Australian leader Matt Wearn and the rest of the men's dinghy field must wait another day to decide their medals. Their final round was put on hold for the second consecutive day in Marseille because of the conditions.

🏄🏻‍♂️Jack Robinson claimed 🥈 in Olympic surfing, falling to local Kauli Vaast in the gold medal match in Tahiti.

The Margaret River-raised surfer beat three-time world champion Gabriel Medina of Brazil earlier on Tuesday to claim a place in showpiece final.

But he fell 17.67 to 7.83 in the decider to the popular Vaast, who grew up kilometres from Teahupo'o, first riding the infamous break at age eight.

🏝️🏐 It was not an easy match, but the Australian pair of Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy have held their nerve to clinch a spot in the semifinals of the women's beach volleyball.

Artacho del Solar and Clancy prevailed, 21-19, 16-21, 15-12.

The silver medallists from Tokyo are now one win away from a gold medal game.

🏃🏼‍♀️ Jessica Hull says she's perfectly placed to end Australia's barren dozen years on the Olympic athletics track.

Hull cruised through her 1500m heat in Paris on Tuesday morning to secure a semi-berth in two days' time.

🛶 Australia's men's kayak four 500m team set an Olympic record, leaving the competition in their wake at the quarterfinals, sending a strong signal ahead of the semifinals.

🤢 Australia's team physician Dr Caroline Broderick has released the test results for gastro and respiratory illnesses among the Olympic team.

Of the 85 people tested, 44 had illnesses, 31 of them athletes and 13 officials. Of the 31 athletes ill, 16 had COVID.

Yesterday, Swimming Australia's head coach Rohan Taylor revealed some swimmers raced with COVID during their nine-day program at the pool, including 200m breaststroke silver medallist Zac Stubblety-Cook.

NOT OLYMPICS
Pub-A-Thon

🍻 Let me take you back to a simpler time with the 1978 Geelong Pub-A-Thon… a two and a half mile trip around 15 watering holes, one beer in each.

To the victor… The Froth Blowers Trophy.

NRL NEWS
Broncos Lose Trio

📄 TEAMS: We saw a couple of big upsets last week that really upset the NRL finals aspirations of several clubs. Official team lists, updates and injury news for Round 23. (NRL.com)

Rabbitohs: A boost for the Bunnies with halfback Cody Walker back on deck after missing last week's game with a calf injury.

Eels: The Eels will go with the same that 17 that produced a morale-boosting win over the Warriors last week.

Broncos: Injuries to Payne Haas (foot) and Ezra Mam (ankle) have forced a major reshuffle with Josh Rogers taking over at five-eighth and Xavier Willison coming into the front row.

AFL NEWS
Farewell Dusty

👋🏼 In case you’ve been living under a rock: Dustin Martin, one of the greatest Richmond players to pull on the yellow and black jumper, has played his last game. 

The three-time premiership player, triple Norm Smith medallist and 2017 Brownlow medallist played 302 games for the Tigers and booted 338 goals.

He played just 13 games this season as a back complaint hampered his fitness in the second half of the season. Uncertainty had also grown about his future at Richmond beyond 2024, given his lucrative seven-year contract was coming to an end and his former coach and premiership mentor, Damien Hardwick, had taken the reins at Gold Coast. 

Celebrating a legend: Dusty's career in words and pictures

OLYMPICS
He seems like a G

🏃🏽‍♀️ Gabby Thomas is the Olympic 200m champion, winning the women's final in impressive fashion.

Thomas of the US stopped the clock in 21.83, comfortably beating home Saint Lucia's 100m gold medallist Julien Alfred (22.08).

Another American, Brittany Brown, was third in 22.20.

🥇 Greece's Miltiádis Tentóglou has retained his Olympic title in the men's long jump.

The world champion clinched victory with his second attempt of 8.48 metres in a sombre effort, as he only cracked a grin once he was able to embrace his support team in the stands.

🔫 On breaking his own Pole Vault world record for a ninth time, Mondo Duplantis did the “Turkish shooter dude celebration” because Aussie jumper Kurtis Marschall “dared” him to do it. “He seems like a G”

🏃🏼 In a classic, Cole Hocker pipped British world champion Josh Kerr in the dying stages of the men's 1,500m final to claim gold in an Olympic record of 3:27.65.

Hocker's US teammate Yared Nuguse was third in 3:27.80, which was also a PB.

Defending champion, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was fourth in 3:28.24.

🧗🏻‍♂️ Sam Watson (US) broke his own World Record with a scorching climb in qualification (4.75 secs)

Polish speed climber Aleksandra Mirosław also broke her own world record TWICE, setting a new fastest time of 6.06 seconds and advancing to the final

WORLD NEWS
Splashing the Cash

⚽️ Atletico Madrid have agreed an AU$159.4m deal to sign Manchester City forward Julian Alvarez.

Atletico, who have also agreed a deal to sign Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher, are yet to agree personal terms with Alvarez.

The Argentine, who joined City in 2022 in a £14.1m deal from River Plate, has scored 36 goals in 106 appearances for Guardiola's side.

Alvarez won the Treble during his first season at the Etihad and the striker featured during Argentina's 2022 World Cup victory in Qatar midway through the campaign.

⚽️ Newcastle United are close to agreeing a deal worth more than AU$118m to sign England centre-back Marc Guehi, 24, from Crystal Palace.

🔫 UFC fighter Ramon Taveras says a "group of armed men" tried to shoot him outside his mother's house in Duval, Florida.

Taveras, 30, released doorbell footage of the incident on 29 July, which shows a car driving by and opening fire as he left the house.

The American, who was born and raised in Jacksonville, lost his brother to gun violence in 2019.

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