The Dolphins wrapped up the last night of the Olympic swimming with 2 silver medals – the first for Meg Harris in the 50m freestyle, coming in 0.26 seconds behind world record holder Swede Sarah Sjöström. And we had another Mollie moment when Mollie O’Callaghan took us from fourth to a silver medal in her leg of the women’s 4x100m relay. Australia has won gold or silver in this event at every Olympics since 1992 – this year, it was America’s turn for gold. Our men’s relay team finished sixth, while China won gold.

Our Aussie women have soared their way to silver and bronze medals in the high jump, with Nicola Olyslagers winning her second silver Olympic medal. Known for scoring her own attempts in a journal in between jumps, Olyslagers couldn’t match the world record holder, Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who spent her downtime cosy inside a sleeping bag between attempts. Aussie Eleanor Patterson won bronze, shared with Ukrainian Iryna Gerashchenko. 

It’s always one of the most talked about races in the Olympics and this year’s 100m men’s sprint final didn’t disappoint. The fastest man on the planet – in one of the closest finishes in Olympic history – is America’s Noah Lyles who won the gold over Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson. The women’s race was held on Sunday morning, when Julien Alfred of St Lucia took the gold, winning the tiny Caribbean nation its first-ever Olympic medal. 

And champion paddler Jess Fox’s dream of a golden trifecta in Paris is over after she crashed out of the kayak cross heat against her little sister Noemie overnight. Jess got stuck on an upstream gate trying to cut off another competitor. After the race, Jess said: “I’m gutted, but at the same time, when you see your little sister (Noemie) win the heat, I was really proud of her.” Noemie will next race in the quarterfinals tonight.

3 Things Coming Up:

4.00pm – Our Aussie men’s and women’s triathletes will compete in a mixed team relay, involving a 300m swim, 8km cycle and a 2km run. The course offers some Parisian eye-candy, taking in iconic sites like the Champs-Elysées, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower but the race is not without controversy – Belgium has dropped out after several athletes have become sick following their individual triathlon swims in the Seine. 

🏑 6.00pm – The Hockeyroos are taking on China in the quarterfinals. They’re going into the match undefeated after beating Spain 3-1 to finish top of their pool.  

🏃‍♂️ Tuesday 3.00am – Aussie pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall has defied the odds after a nasty ankle injury earlier this year to make the final of the men’s pole vault. Not in the final is Frenchman Anthony Ammiratis who hit the bar on the way down with a body part that set a new bar in viral content.