52 SPORT WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 2016

BEST OF THE GAMES TODAY/TONIGHT FOOTBALL HOCKEY are in WOMEN’S GROUP STAGE WOMEN’S POOL STAGE 5.30-6.30am Midnight-1.45am Matildas v Zimbabwe A Hockeyroos v India A JUDO RUGBY 7s MEDAL ROUNDS MEN’S POOL STAGE 5.30-6.40am G 12.30-1am WOMEN’S 63kg, MEN’S 81kg Thunderbolts v South Africa A seventh heaven FENCING SHOOTING IAIN PAYTEN Games were on in London, athletes gathered from a range cried after someone pushed me MEN’S INDIVIDUAL EPEE MEN’S 50m PISTOL FINAL most of our freshly minted Rio of different sports. Many were in the back. Contact is defi- MEDAL BOUTS 12.30-2am GA FOUR years ago they were a champions were not even former touchies, like Cherry. nitely something we had to 5.30-6.30am G Daniel Repacholi team pulled together from all players. Many had Up to seven played touch for learn,” Cherry said. “We start- ARTISTIC BEACH corners of Australian sport. not made a tackle in their lives. Australia, including Charlote ed the sport together four or GYMNASTICS VOLLEYBALL Now Australia’s sevens “It’s really overwhelming at Caslick and Alicia Quirk, be- five years ago, to see the trans- stars — who completed their the moment,” Aussie star Emi- fore joining rugby. formation coming from a non- WOMEN’S TEAM FINAL WOMEN’S PRELIMINARIES preparations for Rio in Darwin lee Cherry said. “The last four played for the contact sport to this, it is an 5.30-7.30am G 1.30-2.20am A last month — sit on top of the or five years we have been Sydney Flames in the WNBL, absolute credit to WEIGHTLIFTING Mariafe Artacho/Nicole Laird world, after claiming a historic working up to this moment. It’s was an accidental and the coaching staff. (Aus) v Wang Fan/Yue Yuan (Chn) MEN’S 69kg first ever Olympic gold medal down to all that hard work.” attendee at an tryout day in “The reason I joined the 7.30-9.30am G SWIMMING for women's . Cherry was one of the play- , and Emma Tone- program from a touch football HOCKEY HEATS With a thrilling 24-17 win ers targeted to join the Austra- gato played for background and they said 1.30-3.30am over the old enemy New Zea- lian sevens program when the Australia. there is an opportunity to play MEN’S POOL STAGE WOMEN’S 100m land in the final, Australia fell ARU decided to have a big Along with established at the Olympics. “We said: ‘yep 9-10.45am A FREESTYLE A in love with our newest gang of crack at winning the first rugby players like co-captains lets go for it’ and right from the Kookaburras v Belgium Cate Campbell, Bronte golden girls. But this team are Olympic gold medal in Rio. and Shannon start we were gunning for that SWIMMING Campbell unlike any who have gone be- The former Australian Parry, the team came together gold medal.” WOMEN’S 200m MEN’S 200m BACKSTROKE A fore, and not just because touch footballer was ap- under coach Tim Walsh. Many nations were also FREESTYLE FINAL Mitch Larkin, Josh Beaver rugby sevens was making its proached to try rugby and Right from the start they set pouring money into new 10.20am GA WOMEN’S 200m debut at these Games. through a combination of fur- firm sights on winning the gold Olympic sevens programs but Bronte Barratt, Emma McKeon BREASTSTROKE A What’s most remarkable ther recruitment and open in Rio. But first, many had to Australia’s point of golden dif- MEN’S 200m BUTTERFLY Taylor McKeown about the Australian team is trials, Cherry was joined by a learn how to tackle. ference was an Aussie staple: FINAL MEN’S 200m INDIVIDUAL that when the last Olympic motley crew of other female “I remember my first game I backyard footy. 10.25am G MEDLEY WOMEN’S 200m WOMEN’S 4x200m INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY FINAL FREESTYLE RELAY A 12pm G Bronte Barratt, Madeline MEN’S 4 x 200m Groves, Emma McKeon, Leah FREESTYLE RELAY FINAL Neale 12.08pm GA SAILING Thomas Fraser-Holmes, MEN’S 470, LASER AND Cameron McEvoy, David FINN, WOMEN’S LASER McKeon and Daniel Smith. RADIAL, 470 AND MIXED ROWING NACRA 17 FINALS 1.30-4.O5am A MEN’S QUADRUPLE SCULLS CANOE-KAYAK 10.50pm GA SLALOM WOMEN’S QUADRUPLE MEN’S K1 SEMIS AND FINAL SCULLS 2-4.45am GA 11.10pm G Lucien Delfour SEMI-FINALS 9pm-12.30am SHOOTING MEN’S AND WOMEN’S MEN’S DOUBLE TRAP FINAL LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE 3.30-5am GA SCULLS, MEN’S FOUR, James Willett WOMEN’S PAIR JUDO REPECHAGE MEDAL ROUNDS MEN’S AND WOMEN’ S EIGHT WOMEN’S 70kg, MEN’S 90kg WATER POLO 4-6.50am G MEN’S GROUP STAGE WEIGHTLIFTING 10-11.20pm WOMEN’S 69kg Sharks v Japan A 4-6am G BEACH DIVING VOLLEYBALL MEN’S SYNCHRO 3m WOMEN’S PRELIMINARIES SPRINGBOARD FINAL 11-11.50pm A 4.30-5.45am G Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy (Aus) v Madelein Meppelink/ ARTISTIC Marleen van Iersel (Ned) GYMNASTICS EQUESTRIAN MEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL 4.30-7.15am G DRESSAGE PRELIMS 11pm-5am A G gold medal event Australia’s is tackled by New Zealand rival Tyla Nathan-Wong during the Rio Olympics gold medal match in the women’s Mary Hanna, Kelly Layne, A Aussie in action rugby sevens at Deodoro Stadium. Inset: on the attack for Australia Pictures: ALEX HASSENSTEIN and THEMBA HADEBE Kristy Oatley, Lyndal Oatley KEY GA Aussie medal watch Kiwi chirp gets golden girls fired up for the decider ACCORDING to Aussie Caslick then apologised for was a gritty gang of rough, something on to a team sevens star , a swearing. She needn’t have. tumble and routinely whiteboard. It was the Kiwi pre-match sledge from New In one sentence, the star underestimated warriors coach’s quote. Read it, he said. Zealand coach Sean Horan ballplayer had given a perfect laying unnoticed. “He said: ‘The girls are that Australia didn’t like the insight into why Australia “It is just incredible,” intimidated by the physicality tough stuff couldn’t have been dusted rivals New Zealand and Caslick said, looking at her and the black jersey brings a more wrong – or perfect. crowned themselves the first gold medal. lot of physicality,’” Walsh CYCLING – ROAD “He said we don’t like ever Olympic champions in An hour or two earlier the explained later. MEN’S AND WOMEN’S physical battles, but we f***ing women’s rugby sevens. Australian team were “I wrote the date and that it INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL love them,” Caslick said. For all the glamour preparing to play the Kiwis in was said an hour ago. It didn’t 10pm-2.50am GA “They played into our portrayed by Caslick and her the Olympic decider when worry me at all but I did want hands.” teammates, underneath it all coach Tim Walsh scribbled to fire them up a bit more.”

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