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Australia’s Olympic campaign is off to a strong start, racking up six medals in Tokyo by Tuesday morning – including two gold.
From Brendon Smith’s first medal of the Games, winning bronze in the men’s 400-metre individual medley on Sunday morning, to Ariane Titmus’s spectacular race yesterday to win gold, Australia has once again dominated in the pool.
But there are stories of triumph and defeat this year, including that of Jian Fang Lay, the 48-year-old mother-of-two who made her record sixth Olympics appearance (tied with equestrian Mary Hanna as the most of any Australian woman), to the Australian men’s sevens rugby team facing a monumental battle to progress through the competition. This year’s Olympics has lived up to its reputation of being unmissable.