Paris Olympics: Day 11 recap as Arisa Trew wins gold in historic moment

The Canberra Times

Skateboarder Arisa Trew became Australia's youngest gold-medal winner in Olympic Games history after a massive morning. Get all the information from Day 11 in Paris, including Patty Mills and Boomers heartbreak and bronze at the velodrome.

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00:00Good morning, sports fans. Your teenager is probably still fast asleep, but go wake them

00:08up to tell them that 14-year-old skateboarder Arisa Chew is Australia's youngest gold medalist.

00:14After a nervous first run, she landed opening back to back 540s, where she flipped around

00:18quite a bit in her third and final run to score 93.18 to win the gold.

00:23The previous youngest gold medalist was Sandra Morgan, a swimmer who competed in the 4x100

00:29relay with Dawn Fraser back in 1956. There was some bad news from the men's basketball.

00:35The Boomers blew a 24-point lead against Serbia to bow out in overtime in the quarterfinals.

00:40Is this the last we'll see of Patti Mills on the Olympic stage?

00:44Over at the Velodrome, it was a big night for our boys. The team sprint has finished

00:48fourth at the past five Olympics, but we finally won bronze, beating France. And the team pursuit

00:53set a world record to cement a place in the gold medal race against enemies Great Britain

00:58later tonight. The Stingers kept our team sport dreams alive, winning their women's

01:03water polo quarterfinal against Greece 9-6. They've won every match in Paris since COVID

01:08swept through the camp early in the games, and now they'll meet world champions the US

01:12in the semifinals. And our women's beach volleyball team of Tahlequah Kansi and Marife

01:18Acho del Soler beat Switzerland to make the semifinals.

01:22Now go get those kids up and tell them the news. It's another big day for Australia.

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