At time of writing, Australia is sixth on the Tokyo medal ladder and with only one day of competition left it seems unlikely that we will suffer the ignominy which attached to our performance in 2016, when we limped across the finish line in 10th position (behind Italy and South Korea, for goodness sake), prompting a week of national mourning and, as I can now reveal, demands for a Royal Commission which might well have been acceded to had they not been gazumped the same year by the even more reprehensible performance of our largest financial institutions.
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