Olympic daily wrap, day 1: Aussie medals in pool and archery, NSFW injury and justice served on thieves

A one stop round up of what went down on day 1 of the Games: Aussie medals in the pool and shooting range, a NSFW injury and robbers who messed with the wrong guys ...

The Australian Men's Archery team of Alec Potts, Ryan Tyack and Taylor claimed Australia’s first medals of the Rio Games.

THE AUSSIES MAKING THE NEWS

Australia’s men’s archery team had the honour of securing Australia’s first medal of the Rio Games, Taylor Worth, Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack getting the better of their Chinese opponents in their bronze medal play off.

Aussies hit their mark in the team archery event

Great though that was, however, it was trumped a few hours later by a stunning swim in the 400m freestyle by Mack Horton. Never seemingly rushed, never anything other than smooth as silk, he timed it just right to beat proven drug cheat and recent nemesis Sun Yang of China by a fingernail. Sensational, Australia’s first gold in the bag.

Horton takes down drug cheat to win gold

Australia’s women’s 4x100m freestyle team — Cate and Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon and Brittany Elmslie won gold and set a world record in to the bargain. A stunning final leg from Cate Campbell saw her touch the wall ahead of the previous best time — also set by Australia. Never in doubt. And at close of play this lunchtime Australia top the medals table.

Stop the race... pic.twitter.com/YmaHiEvTpr

— paul zalunardo (@zalman44) August 7, 2016

Our men's and women’s basketball teams both opened their Games with a win, the Boomers laying down a marker with victory over the fancied France and the Opals seeing off a spirited but limited Brazil to annoy their party hosts.

Boomers set up Rio campaign with big win ... Slow-starting Opals come good late to sink hosts

Australia’s women’s Sevens team had the perfect opening to their campaign, with back-to-back wins against Colombia and Fiji — big ones, 53-0 and 36-0 respectively — seeing them in to the quarter-finals and still on track for the gold medal they are favourites for.

Aussie women’s Sevens take Rio by storm

No stopping ‘em! Australia's Ellia Green and her Sevens team breezed past Fiji.

The Matildas are all but out of the comp despite dominating their match against world No. 2 side Germany. The Australians bossed much of the game and were value for their 2-1 lead before a late equaliser left them with just one point from two matches and relying on a mathematical miracle to get out of their group.

Late goal denies Matildas famous win over Germany

It was a mixed day for Australia’s hockey teams in their opening matches, the unconvincing Kookaburas seeing off New Zealand but the Hockeyroos going down narrowly to London 2012 bronze medallists Great Britain.

Lucky Kookaburras survive tough Kiwi test ...

And Richie Porte’s Games is over after he was one of many fallers in a brutal men’s road race, breaking his collar bone to rule him out of the time trial later this week.

Porte crashes out as falls galore mar road race

THE BIG PICTURE

Mack Horton starts his charge towards a stunning gold medal in the pool.

THE RIO LOWDOWN

Shocked photographers and journalists have told how close people were to being hit by a stray bullet that punched through the roof of a packed media tent at the Olympic equestrian venue.

The bullet landed within metres of media during a lunch break of the opening day of Olympic competition at the Deodoro equestrian venue, which is surrounded by an expansive military base — the bullet was later revealed to have been of army issue.

No-one was injured by the bullet, which left a hole in the roof of the media tent. Horses worth millions of dollars were competing at the time just 100 metres away.

Media doge bullet — literally — at equestrian centre

The daring Rio thief who stole $40,000 worth of camera gear from a News Corp Australia photographer has been caught — by the very man from whom he stole the gear!

Photographer Brett Costello noticed the man wearing his jacket when he walked through security to cover the archery event this morning.

Not content with stealing the camera gear from a Rio cafe two days ago, the thief had put Costello’s photo jacket on and wore it through security.

We got him! We catch the Rio camera thief

French gymnast Samir Ait Said showed superhuman levels of stoicism and courage when he reacted to one of the most horrific leg breaks you are ever likely to see (see picture of the day) with stern resolve and little moaning.

The 26-year- old didn’t quite rotate far enough to stick the landing from the vault — and ended up with a snapped bone at a gut wrenching angle.

It was a cruel blow to the former European champion who recorded the highest score of his group in the team preliminaries in his favourite discipline — the rings — but, as you can imagine, saw his Games finished by the injury.

That’s gotta hurt: French gymnast’s horrific leg break

THE SOCIAL SCENE

I don't think you'll see the Aussie uniform the same way @EmilyBenammar @DaveyCampbell85 @LillSaleh 😂 #Olympics pic.twitter.com/7VInDDI2Ke

— Soraiya Fuda (@SoraiyaFuda) August 6, 2016

Funny moment today
Asked the Kiwi coach for a PIN and he pulled out a PEN... Accent issues ...😂

— Anna Meares (@AnnaMeares) August 7, 2016

#SuperMack #Gold #RioOlympics2016 @_mackhorton @AUSOlympicTeam pic.twitter.com/xaT4Jcq6mV

— Peter Brown (@SydneyEditor) August 7, 2016

THE QUOTE

“We have breaking waves out there. I was pretty close to sinking.”

Angry Australian rower and gold medal favourite Kim Brennan claimed officials made a major blunder in not calling off the competition in wild conditions. She scrapped through to the next round.

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