As Paris signs off on a Games that featured the very best of what the sporting world can do, Australia can bask in the glory of staggering achievement.
And these Games of the 33rd Olympiad have been a seriously impressive collection of mighty good things.
France had enjoyed it's first moment of the Games, the irrepressible Antoine Dupont leading his team to a surge of impossible wins at the Stade de FranceA Games that will be remembered by performances that tore the lid off what we had hoped for in our wildest dreams and what the hosts in particular dare not imagine.
Then there was the trio of French medallists in the BMX racing, a scenario that drew scenes of utter delirium that continued whenUnderstandable too, the cost of living crisis doesn't pause during a Games any more than conflicts do during the so-called Olympic truce, and ticket prices were excessive for most.
Another woman, Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba also made history, winning the Refugee Olympic Team's first ever medal with a bronze in the boxing.kayak cross — and not just because it helped complete a Fox-family sweep for the slalom medals "I said to our teams as they were welcomed into our Village, the pages of the chapter that is Paris 2024 were blank," she said.
Australia, as ever, by and large, has exemplified these traits as well here as anywhere, in a Games typified by fair play and the nebulous Olympic spirit.
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