The Fox sisters are officially the best paddlers in the biz after Noemie Fox won gold in the women’s kayak cross overnight, joining her big sister Jess as an Olympic champion and collecting our 13th gold medal. Jess immediately jumped into the water to celebrate with her little sis – who said she took inspiration from BMX champion Saya Sakakibara. “I thought of Saya…who was always on the far extreme (starting position)…and I was like, ‘okay, I’m going to do like her’”, she said.

US gymnast Simone Biles has finished her Paris campaign with a silver medal in the women’s floor finals, dancing to Taylor Swift’s Ready for It. The medal adds to her golden haul for vault, artistic individual and artistic team events. Earlier in the night she missed out on a podium finish in the balance beam final after a rare slip. 

And after a great run to the quarterfinals, the dream of Paris gold is over for the Hockeyroos who were knocked out of the competition by China 3-2 last night. The Aussie Sharks – aka our men’s water polo team – also had an unexpected loss to Japan but they finished high enough in their pool to go through to the quarterfinals. 

Coming Up:

🛹 8.30pm – Skater girl Arisa Trew rolls into action in the women’s park skateboarding preliminaries. At 14yo, she’s one of our youngest-ever Olympians but she’s up against an even younger whipper-snapper – 11yo Zheng HaoHao from China – the youngest athlete at the Paris Games. If Trew makes it through to the final, she’ll be going for gold at 1.30am on Wednesday.

⛹️ 10.30pm – The Boomers meet Serbia in the quarterfinals as the basketball competition moves to Paris for the knockout stage. We’re the underdogs but we beat them in an Olympic warm-up game just a few weeks ago, so we’ll be looking to make it 2 from 2…

💦 11pm – Diving – Melissa Wu and Ellie Cole are competing in the women’s 10m platform diving final…. As with gymnastics, our commentary skills come into their own here. 

🏐 Wednesday 5.00am – Grab a coffee and cheer on our beach volleyball pair Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar as they play Switzerland in the quarterfinals under the Eiffel Tower. As venues go, it’s up there with Bondi Beach… The Tokyo silver medallists are in great form, beating the world #3 pair from Brazil in straight sets on Monday morning.