🗞 Nine nights. Seven gold medals.

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AUSSIE OLYMPICS
Nine Nights. Seven Golds.

🥈 Australia's Meg Harris managed to secure a Silver medal in the women’s splash-and-dash (50m freestyle). Sweden's 100m Champion Sarah Sjoestroem touched the wall first!

Meg Harris looked a little stunned after the race, and told Channel Nine "everything's all over the place. I mean, I have no words for that now."

🥈 Women’s 4 × 100m Medley Relay - The USA's crack team smashed the women's 4x100m medley relay world record to deny Australia in a sizzling 3:49.63.

Mollie O'Callaghan swum a great final freestyle leg from fourth place to get silver for Australia ahead of China.

It means the USA finish the swimming programme with eight golds while Australia can be hugely proud with seven against a much larger nation.

🥈 & 🥉 Women’s High Jump: Australia's secured both silver and bronze.

Nicola Olyslagers won silver after failing with her three attempts at 2.02m to finish runner-up for the second consecutive Olympics.

Ukraine's world-record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh who was forced to flee her country due to the war with Russia, won gold.

Australia's Eleanor Patterson shared the bronze with Ukraine's Iryna Gerashchenko.

🥊 Caitlin Parker is guaranteed Australia's first Olympic medal in women's boxing after dominating her quarterfinal against Moroccan world champion Khadija Mardi.

There are no bronze medal fights at the Olympics, meaning Parker will leave with a historic medal even if she loses her semifinal against China's Li Qian on Thursday at Roland Garros.

🏝️🏐 Australia's beach volleyball power pair (Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy) are two wins away from another Olympic gold medal game after a statement defeat of Brazil to begin the knockout stages.

They will next face Swiss duo Zoé Vergé-Dépré and Esmée Böbner for a spot in the semis.

🤽🏻‍♀️ The Aussie Stingers once again found a way to win, this time taking care of Hungary in a penalty shootout.

After the match finished 9-9 in normal time, Australia scored all five of their penalties, with Hungary seeing their third attempt rattle off the post.

This means the Stingers top their group heading into the quarterfinals.

⛵️ Dinghy Racing: Besties Nia Jerwood and Conor Nicholas are just a good day away from cracking the top three on the 470 mixed dinghy leaderboard after racing to their first top three at the Paris Olympics.

They’re currently sixth but, with two good days of racing ahead, the pair still have plenty of opportunity to be pressing for a medal mid this week.

🏑 Australia's hopes of defending their Tokyo bronze medal are over after conceding twice to a fancied Dutch side in the quarter-final. The Kookaburras were given few chances in their knockout clash, and lacked clinical finishing when they did.

🛶 Jessica Fox's quest for a historic third Olympic medal in Paris is over with her sister Noemie eliminating the superstar in their kayak cross round.

After winning the C1 and K1 titles, Fox was attempting a golden treble with the new Olympic event added to the Paris schedule.

But her plans came unstuck on Sunday afternoon when a costly gate error meant she failed to make the top two to advance to the quarter-finals, finishing last.

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NRL NEWS
Doggies Dream

📄 Match Report: Nathan Cleary delivered a stunning individual try and a crucial penalty goal to secure Penrith's 22-14 win over Newcastle at Panthers Stadium.

With the game tied and just 10 minutes remaining, Cleary weaved through four tackles for a brilliant try, showcasing his return from a serious hamstring injury. His final penalty goal pushed his career points tally over 1500, cementing his status as one of the NRL's top clutch players.

📄 Match Report: Canterbury are daring to dream of their first finals series in eight year after the NRL entered a time warp at Belmore and the Bulldogs emerged with a 22-18 win over Canberra.

AFL NEWS
Season Over

📄 Match Report: Essendon staged a thrilling one-point comeback win over Fremantle, reviving their AFL finals chances. Sam Durham’s quick response from a centre clearance secured a dramatic 13.12 (90) to 14.5 (89) victory.

📄 Match Report: A late goal from local hero Tom Green secured GWS a thrilling comeback victory against Hawthorn in Canberra to drive a dagger into their rivals' finals ambitions.

The 12.12 (84) to 12.10 (82) win solidifies the Giants' place in the top eight and keeps the Hawks four points adrift of the knock-out spots.

📄 Match Report: Cam Rayner's star continued to rise, Ryan Lester celebrated his 200th game in style and Brisbane flexed its premiership credentials, cruising to an 85-point demolition of St Kilda 19.10 (124) to 5.9 (39).

🩼 Collingwood star Jordan De Goey's season is over after scans confirmed he sustained a high-grade hamstring injury in the Magpies' heart-stopping three-point win against Carlton.

De Goey, who has been battling groin soreness for weeks, was subbed off in the third quarter after hobbling from the field.

OLYMPIC NEWS
Fastest Man on Earth

After failing to win both his heat and semi-final, USA's Noah Lyles won gold in a thrilling men's 100m final.

Pre-race favourite, Jamaica's Kishane Thompson took silver and USA's Fred Kerley bronze.

Lyles and Thompson both clocked 9.79 but Lyles was awarded gold in a photo finish, by five thousandths of a second.

🎾 Novak Djokovic beat Carlos Alcaraz in thrilling fashion to secure a long-awaited Olympic title and complete the career 'Golden Slam'.

Djokovic, who has won a men's record 24 majors and swept up every title there is in tennis, finally clinched Olympic gold at his fifth Games.

The Serb, 37, put in his best performance of the year to beat French Open and Wimbledon champion Alcaraz 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-2) in front of a packed crowd in Paris.

⛳️ GOLF: An emotional Scottie Scheffler burst into tears after capturing the gold medal. Sheffler prevailed with a course record-tying 62 in the final round.

• 🥇 Scottie Sheffler

• 🥈Tommy Fleetwood

• 🥉 Hideki Matsuyama

WORLD NEWS

⚽️ EPL Whispers: Atletico Madrid have opened talks with Manchester City for Julian Alvarez, who is also interesting Arsenal, while Newcastle are hopeful of agreeing deal to sign Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi, Bournemouth tell Tottenham their price for Dominic Solanke (AU$120m).

🥊 Terence Crawford won his fourth world title at different weights by beating Israil Madrimov to claim the WBA light-middleweight crown in Los Angeles.

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