Heartbreak and heroism in the Paris pressure cooker

Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

Updated Jul 30, 2024 – 6.10am, first published at 5.25am

Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook

Subscribe to gift this article

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber?

Key Points

Read the latest Olympics coverage.
Keep up to date with the medal tally.
Explore the full events schedule.
Sign up for AFR Performance – our twice-weekly Olympics newsletter on LinkedIn.

Welcome to day three of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where Australian fans have been feasting on a rich diet of sporting triumph and tragedy. A gold-silver combo, with an Olympic record to boot, spiced up the pool, adding to Christopher Burton’s sumptuous equestrian silver. But the image of the day is heartbroken boxer Harry Garside, whose high Olympic hopes were dashed in less than 10 minutes.

Read on to see what you missed overnight.

Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London.