Day 15 - Mitcham A Perfect 10

Major Highlight - Men's 10m Platform

Matthew Mitcham (Australia) produced the greatest dive in Olympic history, and prevented the Chinese from completing an unheralded clean sweep of the diving, to take gold in the Men's 10m Platform. Mitcham trailed China's Zhou Luxin by almost 40 points heading into the final round, and after Zhou performed a reasonable dive with his final effort Mitcham required a mammoth 108 points to take the gold. Performing the dive that scored him 106 points in the semi-final, Mitcham produced arguably the most perfect dive seen in Olympic competition, earning four perfect 10's for a grand total of 112 points. It was more than enough to take the gold and left the pro-Chinese home crowd in stunned silence. Mitcham had all but given the game away two years ago, but proved him self Australia's leading diver by winning all the events at the most recent national titles. Fellow Aussie, Matthew Helm, who took silver in the event in Athens, had a strong back-end to the final to finish in 6th spot.

Gold - Matthew Mitcham (Australia)
Silver - Zhou Luxin (China)
Third - Gleb Galperin (Russia)

Kayaking
In memories of Clint Robinson in Barcelona, Ken Wallace (Australia) produced a finish faster then Bernborough to take Gold in the Men's K1 500m. Wallace, who took the bronze in the Men's K1 1000m on Day 14, defeated Canadian flag-bearer Adam van Koeverden who had not lost a single race in over 4 years.

Hockey
The Kookaburra's grabbed a consolation bronze for their efforts in Beijing when they defeated the Netherlands 6-2 in the Bronze Medal game. Still, the result can only be seen as a disappointment for a team that were hot favourites to take the gold, and should have done so.

Basketball
The Opals had to settle for their third consecutive silver medal after again losing the gold medal game to the United States, this time a humiliating 92-65 defeat.

Athletics
In the footsteps of Jan Zelezny, Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen won back-to-back gold medals in the Men's Javelin with an Olympic Record throw of 90.57. The United States continued their dominance in the longer relays with both their men's and women's teams taking the gold in the 4 x 400m. Kenenisa Bekele completed the classic distance double by adding the 5000m title to his 10000m gold. He is only the third athlete to have completed the double as well as winning multiple 10000m gold medals.

Channel 7 Bullshitmetre - More classic directing from Channel 7. After the Kookaburra's took a 1-0 lead in the Bronze Medal match against the Netherlands, Channel 7 cut to an ad, but not before we heard a roar from the crowd and stifled excitement from the match commentator. It turns out the Australian's had scored almost right from the re-start, and by the time we returned from the break we'd add another to take what would be an unassailable 3-0 lead. Gee the ad's must have been important!