From Peter Bol’s valiant sprint to Emma McKeon’s victory laps, we got the Games we needed at a time we needed it most
At night in my neighbourhood, the quiet is so deep and comprehensive that it’s like everyone around me is DEAD. I moved into the area the day of the Sydney lockdown and for all I know, it could be the centre of some great party scene. For seven weeks now, after dark it’s a ghost town. That is until 10:05pm on Wednesday night when the street suddenly erupted in noise. That’s when Peter Bol raced the 800 metres at the Olympics.
At this lockdown hour, that felt weirdly late, lights burned from apartment buildings all around me and from many of the windows came the sound of people screaming at their screens: “C’mon Peter! C’mon!!!!”
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