Photo finish in dramatic 100m sprint, scrutiny for ‘experimental’ implant, UK far-right riots continue

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An extraordinary men’s 100m final at the Paris Games came down to a photo finish, with the USA’s Noah Lyles taking the gold by just five thousandths of a second.

For Australia, Nicola Olyslagers has won silver and Eleanor Patterson took bronze in the women’s high jump final – putting two Australians on the Olympic podium in an athletics event for the first time in 56 years. And on the final night of Olympic swimming the women’s relay team took silver in the 100m medley, and Meg Harris won silver in a thrilling 50m freestyle final.

Back at home, court documents claim that a Melbourne surgeon accused of negligence failed to tell a patient undergoing major jaw surgery that the device she was being implanted with was an “experimental” one that he’d invented.

Meanwhile, the UK prime minister is talking tough after a mob of masked rioters tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers, as far-right violence escalates.

Rough sleepers can get on top of health issues and find stable housing in a unique facility at a repurposed aged care home in Melbourne’s inner north. The residents are Melbourne’s most vulnerable – the long-term homeless, with complex health needs. The majority have been sleeping rough. Others have come from prison, couch-surfing, unsafe boarding houses or hospitals. Most of the time, this place is their last option.

Now aged 84, Ken Done is still painting. His joyous, brightly coloured depictions of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge have decorated doona covers and duffel bags since the 1980s – and remain loved by a new generation of Australiana appreciators. In the latest instalment of our weekly interview about the importance of objects, the legendary Australian artist tells us about a sorely missed artwork, why his brushes are like chef’s knives – and his fiercest four-legged critic.

Players have called for an urgent review of the NRL’s insurance policy, claiming there are “clear deficiencies” for those who suffer life-changing injuries, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Researchers hope to replicate quolls’ excellent sense of smell with a new “electronic nose” developed to rapidly detect diseases in soil, reports the Mercury.

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