2024 Paris Olympic Games day 11: Five things you missed while you were sleeping

Records - both good and bad - tumbled on day 11 of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Here are five things you missed while you were sleeping.

Josh Giddey shows his disappointment after the quarter final loss. Picture: Adam Head

Records - both good and bad - tumbled on day 11 of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Here are five things you missed while you were sleeping.

Boomers squander huge lead to bomb out of finals

Bronze medal winning brothers Patty Mills and Joe Ingles have most likely played their final international games after the Boomers bombed out of the Paris Olympics with a heartbreaking 95-90 overtime quarter-final loss to Serbia.

The result didn’t go Australia’s way as they surrendered a 24-point lead to lose to a Nikola Jokic-led Serbian side.

Once the pain subsides after letting a giant lead slip, veterans Mills and Ingles will be celebrated for their significant contribution to the green and gold.

Trew beauty! Our youngest Olympian wins gold

Arisa Trew, at just 14, is our newest Olympic gold medallist. She is also now our youngest ever Olympic medallist.

The Gold Coast teen settled her nerves and executed a flawless final run in the skateboarding park final, laden with tricks, to win.

Trew is supremely talented and was the first skater in history to land a 720 (two full mid-air rotations) in competition. It’s one of the rarest tricks in skateboarding, something that was first done by skateboard legend Tony Hawk in 1985,

Swimmer Sandra Morgan previously held the tag of the youngest Australian Olympic medallist in history. She was 14 years and 184 days old when she won the gold medal in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay event at Melbourne in 1956 alongside swimming great Dawn Fraser.

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Well that’s taking the wind out of your sails...

Australian Matt Wearn must wait at least another 24 hours to know if he must race for his gold medal or have it handed to him without actually sailing first.

The defending ILCA 7 Olympic champion finished at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the qualifying series for his dinghy in Marseille.

He has a comfortable 14-point buffer over his nearest rival but was unable to race for the gold on Tuesday due to a lack of wind.

There have been two lay days put aside for officials to run the Olympic decider but if there is no wind on either day Wearn will be awarded a gold medal courtesy of his top finish at the end of the qualifying series.

If the medal race does go ahead Wearn cannot be beaten for a silver.

Aussie schoolgirl completes Paris dream

Ellie Cole, a 17-year-old Sydney highschooler, is the seventh best women’s 10m platform diver in the world after a breakout debut Olympics against a highly competitive field.

Not bad for her first international competition.

Cole was sensational - executing six consistent dives. She pulled a string of 8s from the judges for her fourth dive.

But the other competitors just had something she didn’t - experience. Cole was just one of two debutants in the final. The other, a diver from the Netherlands, placed 12th.

Stingers through to historic water polo semi

An epic five-goal haul to Alice Williams has helped guide the Aussie Stingers within one win of an Olympic medal after their 9-6 quarterfinal win over Greece.

In front of a packed-out crowd at the La Defense Arena, both teams got off to a nervy start with some misfiring shots early. Williams calmed the nerves early when she converted a penalty to give the Aussies an early lead.

The teams would then trade runs of goals, as the Stingers opened up a 3-0 lead before Greece levelled the scores in the second term. The Aussies got the margin back out to three again in the third term with Williams completing her hat-trick to make it 6-3.

As the Stingers claimed the momentum, goalkeeper Gabi Palm produced several stunning blocks as she finished with a save rate of 68 per cent for the match.

Originally published as 2024 Paris Olympic Games day 11: Five things you missed while you were sleeping