Olympics day 12 recap: The highlights from Australia's greatest day

The Canberra Times

Paris Olympics day 12 recap: The highlights from Australia's greatest gold-medal day as Matt Wearn, Keegan Palmer, the team pursuit and Nina Kennedy won gold.

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00:00Good morning sports fans. I've been holding on to this bottle of champagne since the Paris

00:11Games kicked off 12 days ago and today is the day to celebrate. We've had our best day

00:16in Australia's Olympic history, winning four gold medals to take us to a total of 18, our

00:21best ever haul. We're bringing home a big chunk of the Eiffel Tower, that's for sure.

00:26Sailor Matt Wern kicked it off winning the men's dinghy. Skateboarder Keegan Palmer defended

00:31his Olympic crown. Then just minutes later our men's team pursuit cyclist blitzed their

00:36race. At this point we'd won three golds in about an hour but the night wasn't over. When

00:41Nina Kennedy came out for the women's pole vault, I wonder if she was aware what her

00:45gold medal would mean to the whole nation. We also won two bronze, six medals on the

00:50one day, another best ever. Jemima Montag and Ryden Cowley won bronze in the mixed marathon

00:55walk relay. Then fan favourite Matt Denny won the bronze in the discus, our first medal

01:00ever in that event. One of the hockey players was a bit naughty overnight but he's been

01:05sent packing without being convicted. It couldn't take the shine off our 18 gold medal day.

01:10Can you believe it? We're sitting in third place on the medal tally and I'm off to finish

01:15my champagne.

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