Australia may have seen the worst of the third Omicron wave but the nation’s top doctor has warned we’re not out of the woods just yet.
A downturn in Australia’s seven-day rolling average and hospitalizations suggests the country could be nearing peak Covid-19 infections sooner than expected.
Speaking to reporters in Canberra, chief medical officer Paul Kelly said he was “increasingly confident” cases had peaked.
Chief medical officer Paul Kelly is cautiously optimistic about the current wave. NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage Credit: News Corp Australia
“The actual data that we’re seeing, particularly from hospital admissions, are decreasing in all states over the last… week support that,” he said.
But he said the current wave would not be the last, stressing the need for governments to plan accordingly.
It follows a virtual meeting of state and territory leaders to discuss the national response to the virus.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters he was “hopeful” the wave had reached its peak but warned against the threat of complacency.
“We know that last summer there was another spike and we shouldn’t be complacent about this issue,” he said.
In June, the Albanese government agreed to extend a 50-50 public hospital funding agreement for an additional three months amid concerns of the third Omicron wave.
But with cases peaking earlier than expected, Mr Albanese remained coy on if the states were pushing for another extension beyond September.
“The update that national cabinet received today, I’m pleased to say, is consistent with what was envisaged when we met… after I came back from PIF,” he said.
“Our funding arrangements and big decisions that were made by the national cabinet then in terms of those dates are consistent with the advice that we received.”
On Wednesday, the government fused to be tied down on a time frame on the release of modeling used to guide decision making.
“We don’t want to see an uncoordinated release of modeling that potentially contradicts modeling released by other jurisdictions,” Health Minister Mr Butler said.
The Health Department estimates there are more than 325,000 active cases nationally.
More than 4800 people are in hospital receiving treatment, with 162 in intensive care and 39 on ventilators.
US basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison following a politically charged trial that came amid soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine and could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between the two worlds powers.
The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time US Olympic champion and an eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury listened with a blank expression as an interpreter translated the verdict by Judge Anna Sotnikova. The judge also fined 1 million rubles (about $16,000) fine.
“I never meant to hurt anybody to put in jeopardy the Russian population or violate any Russian laws. I made an honest mistake and I hope that your ruling, that it doesn’t end my life here,” Griner told the court earlier Thursday, apologizing to her family, her teammates, her fans, and the Russian people.
US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022.
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“I know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that that is far from this courtroom… I hope you take into account all the documents, all the character lists that everybody has sent in on my behalf… This is my second home, and all I wanted to do was just win championships and make them proud,” she said.
US President Joe Biden denounced the verdict and sentence as “unacceptable.”
“I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates,” Biden said, adding that he would continue to work to bring home Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction.
As Griner was taken from the court after the verdict, she told reporters: “I love my family.” Her lawyers said she was very upset, stressed, and could hardly talk.
Earlier in the session, with a conviction all but certain, an emotional Griner made a final appeal to the court for leniency. She said she had no intention to break the law by bringing vape cartridges with cannabis oil when she flew to Moscow in February to play basketball in the city of Yekaterinburg.
“I want to apologize to my teammates, my club, my fans and the city of (Yekaterinburg) for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them,” Griner said, her voice cracking. “I want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the Phoenix Mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the WNBA, and my amazing spouse back at home.”
Under Russian law, the 31-year-old Griner faces up to 10 years in prison, but judges have considerable latitude on sentencing.
If she does not go free, attention will turn to the possibility of a high-stakes prisoner swap that was proposed last week by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his Russian counterpart.
Griner said Yekaterinburg, a city east of the Ural Mountains, had become her “second home.”
“I had no idea that the team, the cities, the fans, my teammates would make such a great impression on me over the 6 1/2 years that I spent here,” she said. “I remember vividly coming out of the gym and all the little girls that were in the stands there waiting on me, and that’s what kept making me come back here.”
Prosecutor Nikolai Vlasenko insisted that Griner packed the cannabis oil deliberately, and he asked the court to hand Briner a fine of 1 million rubles (about $16,700) in addition to the prison sentence.
Lawyers for the Phoenix Mercury center and two-time Olympic gold medalist have sought to bolster Griner’s contention that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage by mistake. They presented character witnesses from the Yekaterinburg team that she plays for in the WNBA offseason and written testimony from a doctor who said he prescribed her cannabis for pain treatment from injuries sustained in her basketball career.
Her lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, argued that Griner used the cannabis only in Arizona, where medical marijuana is legal.
She emphasized that Griner was packing in haste after a grueling flight and suffering from the consequences of COVID-19. Blagovolina also pointed out that the analysis of cannabis found in Griner’s possession was flawed and violated legal procedures.
Blagovolina asked the court to acquit Griner, noting that she had no past criminal record and hailing her role in “the development of Russian basketball.”
Another defense attorney, Alexander Boykov, emphasized Griner’s role in taking her Yekaterinburg team to win multiple championships, noting that she was loved and admired by her teammates. He told the judge that a conviction would undermine Russia’s efforts to develop national sports and make Moscow’s call to depoliticize sports sound shallow.
Boykov added that even after her arrest, Griner won the sympathy of both her guards and prison inmates, who supported her by shouting, “Brittney, everything will be OK!” when she went on walks at the jail.
Before her trial began in July, the State Department designated her as “wrongfully detained,” moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Then last week, in an extraordinary move, Blinken spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, urging him to accept a deal under which Griner and Whelan would go free.
The Lavrov-Blinken call marked the highest-level known contact between Washington and Moscow since Russia sent troops into Ukraine more than five months ago. The direct outreach over Griner is at odds with US efforts to isolate the Kremlin.
People familiar with the proposal say it envisions trading Griner and Whelan for the notorious arms trader Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison sentence in the United States. It underlines the public pressure that the White House has faced to get Griner released.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that Russia has made a “bad faith” response to the US government’s offer, a counteroffer that American officials don’t regard as serious. She declined to elaborate.
Russian officials have scoffed at US statements about the case, saying they show a disrespect for Russian law. They remained poker-faced, urging Washington to discuss the issue through “quiet diplomacy without releases of speculative information.”
in to handwritten letter from Griner that was delivered to the White House last month, the WNBA player wrote how terrified she is that she may be imprisoned in Russia “forever.”
Griner’s wife Cherelle told “CBS Mornings” that when she read the letter, she could feel the fear that Griner was experiencing.
“She is probably the strongest person that I know, so she doesn’t say words like that lightly. That means she truly is terrified that she may never see us again. You know, I share those same sentiments,” Cherelle said.
Birmingham: Britain is facing a lengthy recession and the worst decline in living standards for a generation after the Bank of England raised interest rates sharply and forecast that inflation would hit 13 per cent by Christmas.
The bank’s lifted interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to 1.75 per cent on Thursday evening, the biggest increase in 27 years, with forecasts suggesting Britain is now facing a much bleaker economic outlook than either the United States or Europe.
A woman rides a bicycle past a job center in Shepherd’s Bush in London.Credit:AP
The bank forecast the country would slide into a 15-month recession later this year, with GDP shrinking by 1.5 per cent next year. Officials expect the slowdown to begin in the fourth quarter of this year, and continue until the end of 2023 – which would indicate a steady economic decline throughout next year.
Households are also more exposed to the energy price shock than in the US, and less protected by government measures than in the eurozone. At the same time, the British economy has also been damaged by the effects of leaving the European Union.
The cost of household gas and electricity is expected to rise in October by another 75 per cent, up from the Bank’s previous forecast of 40 per cent, to about £3,500 ($6,100) a year. By autumn energy bills, which have already risen by 54 per cent this year, will be at triple their level a year earlier.
Annual inflation is expected to rise from 9.4 per cent in June to a peak of 13.3 per cent in October, the highest level since September 1980. It will remain “very elevated” through much of next year before falling back to the 2 per cent target in two years’ time.
People walk past a closed down shop unit on Oxford Street, in London, where energy prices are spiraling.Credit:AP
The pound fell 0.5 per cent against the US dollar to $US1,208, having been 0.7 per cent higher before the announcement. It was down 0.5 per cent against the euro to €1,182.
Against the Australian dollar, the pound dipped as low as $1,735 in response to the rate hike before recovering to around $1,746.
Back in April, Samsung US and iFixit announced their Galaxy self-repair program though it did not immediately start selling the parts required for it. The floodgates are finally open and you can now order genuine spare parts and tools to repair your Samsung devices.
Devices covered by Samsung and iFixit’s self-repair program
The repair program only covers the Galaxy S20 series and S21 series phones, as well as the Galaxy Tab S7+ tablet for now. You get access to three component types – display assemblies, back covers and charging ports. Interestingly enough Samsung has still not shared any details about battery replacements.
Component prices for the older Galaxy S20 series models range from $59.99 for the charging port assembly on all three models to $224.99 for the S20 Ultra’s display assembly. The Galaxy S21’s display assembly comes in at $160.99 while the S21 Ultra’s is $232.99. A Galaxy Tab S7+ display will go for $219.99 while the charging port assembly is $59.99.
Those who want to repair their own Galaxy device can order the genuine Samsung parts and tools from Samsung Store including retail and service locations as well as from iFixit’s site. Samsung is committed to expanding the devices and repair components covered by the program in the future.
Ed Langdon has taken aim at former Fremantle coach Ross Lyon over a long-sleeve jumper rule he enforced during his time at the Dockers.
A notorious long-sleeve jumper wearer, Langdon thought the ban was “ridiculous”, but felt he couldn’t speak up given he’d only played a handful of games.
“I had five years at Freo and I was never allowed to wear it because Ross Lyon was never a big fan of it,” Langdon told SEN’s The Run Home.
“I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but at that point in my career, I wasn’t really in a position to be arguing, put it that way.”
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As for Langdon’s current coach Simon Goodwin, the premiership Demon revealed he never had to ask Goodwin whether or not he could wear a long-sleeve jumper.
“No – and nor should you have to,” Langdon said.
“That’d be like saying, ‘can I wear a headband this week or do I have to tie it up?’
“As soon as I came to the Demons, I wanted to make it my own, I used to wear it at junior footy and Melbourne is a lot colder than Perth.”
Langdon has been critical of Lyon’s coaching methods in the past.
“I’ve come from five years of the Ross Lyon method, so it’s absolutely a nice change to have someone as cool, calm and collected as Goody,” Langdon said on AFL Nation last year.
“I don’t think I’ve heard him raise his voice since I’ve been at the club.
“Coming over from Freo, where if you don’t look Ross in the eye at a meeting, he starts yelling at you.
“So it’s been a nice change.”
Langdon played 68 games for the Dockers before departing at the end of 2019.
The gloom settling over the vanquished Liberals and Nationals deepened as history tripped away from their grasp.
They could do nothing but demand a series of doomed divisions – the ringing of bells, the locking of doors, the counting of woes and noes, the inevitable defeat – intended to slow the inevitable.
These remnants of a once-dominant Coalition, having spent the better part of a decade turning themselves inside out to ensure climate action never led, like dancing, to anything too vigorous, were left without an embrace among them.
The Nationals were so bent on opposing everything that they even voted against an amendment by independent Helen Haines of Indi, and moved by fellow Independent Rebekha Sharkie of Mayo – both country electorates – designed to assist rural and regional districts.
The amendments require the Climate Change Authority to ensure any measures to respond to climate change should boost economic, employment and social benefits in rural and regional Australia.
Labor supported the Haines amendments, just as it supported other amendments by crossbenchers, even if the government didn’t need the numbers.
The climate wars.Credit:David Rowe
Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen, rubbing it in, described Haines’s ideas as “very sensitive”. Haines rubbed it in further by noting on Twitter (she is in COVID-19 isolation) the Coalition parties, having opposed everything, hadn’t bothered to come up with a single amendment among them.
Independent Zali Steggall grew so expansive she declared: “The climate wars are almost over.”
Given the history, this seemed optimistic.
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But it served, surely, an outbreak of celebrating on the floor of the House of Representatives that left the old Abbott government’s “death of the carbon tax” shindig looking lame.
In the end, however, everyone simply trooped away, trailing their wins and their losses.
Exhaustion, after all the years of those climate wars, had swept the day.
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz slammed his boot on a table during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday while expressing concerns that the FBI and Justice Department have become “thoroughly politicized.”
Senators were questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray during an FBI oversight hearing when Cruz asked about what he said was an FBI training document obtained by conservative organization Project Veritas. This document, Cruz said, “listed various symbols and themes which in the FBI’s estimation, were indicative of ‘militia violent extremism.'”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slams his boot on the table in opposition to FBI guidelines on symbols that indicate violent extremist groups:
“I will self-report right now that everyday in the Senate I wear my boots that have the Gonzales battle flag on the back.” pic.twitter.com/HxsqbEXaqJ
Those symbols included the Betsy Ross flag, an earlier design of the current US flag that featured 13 stars instead of 50, and the Gonzales battle flag, according to Cruz. The lawmaker then slammed his boot on the table in front of him to show that it depicted the Gonzales battle flag.
“Well, I will self-report right now that every day in the Senate, I wear my boots that have the Gonzalez battle flag on the back of them,” I have said.
While Newsweek was not able to independently verify the existence of such a document, the FBI does provide information and resources to help define and pinpoint violent extremism. When responding to Cruz, Wray said that he wasn’t familiar with the document and is “not in the practice of trying to comment on documents that I haven’t recognized.”
“But I will tell you that when we put out intelligence products, including ones that reference symbols, which we do across a wide variety of contexts, we usually make great pains, take great pains to put caveats and warnings in the document that make clear that a symbol alone is not considered evidence of violent extremism,” Wray said.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz slammed his boot on a table during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday while expressing concerns that the FBI and Justice Department have become “thoroughly politicized.” Above, Cruz (left) speaks as Senator Mike Lee (second from left) listens during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on August 4 in Washington, DC Alex Wong/Getty Images
“Director Wray, you don’t include things like Antifa,” Cruz responded, referencing the alleged FBI document. “You don’t include things like Black Lives Matter. Instead, you identify patriotic Americans as suspect.”
when Newsweek reached out for comment and confirmation of the existence of such a document, the FBI shared the following statement: “It is our usual practice to decline comment on articles about allegedly leaked FBI documents, internal FBI products, or information shared with law enforcement partners. In this case, we would point out an online article referencing an allegedly leaked document on symbols that may be used by Militia Violent Extremists (MVE) contains the following words highlighted in bold near the top of the document: The use or sharing of these symbols alone should not independently be considered evidence of MVE presence or affiliation or serve as an indicator of illegal activity, as many individuals use these symbols for their original, historic meaning, or other non-violent purposes.”
It was not immediately clear what article the FBI was referencing, but The Epoch Times, a far-right newspaper, reported Wednesday on the alleged FBI document. That article shared a picture of the purported memo, which included the same sentence in bold near the top that was referenced by the FBI in its statement.
The Gonzales battle flag is linked to the Battle of Gonzales, during which the first shots of the Texas Revolution were fired, according to the History Channel’s website. The battle in October 1835 saw Mexican soldiers fail in an attempt to take a small cannon from a village in Texas due to resistance from a militia of Texans.
The flag depicts a cannon, with a lone star above it and the message “Come and Take It” underneath.
As the story goes, NPR reported, the Texans sewed this flag from a woman’s wedding dress and raised it during the conflict.
Cruz’s office declined to comment further to Newsweek.
Update 04/08/22, 4:50 pm ET: This article was updated with a statement from the FBI.
More gradual rate increases would have led to slower declines, Oliver said, but it was ultimately the end point that had the biggest impact on property prices.
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Oliver said his price forecast is based on the cash rate reaching a high of 2.6 per cent later this year or early next. Were the rate to lift to 3.5 or 3.6 per cent, as forecast by others, prices might fall 25 to 30 per cent, but he cautioned the Reserve Bank was unlikely to lift rates to a point that could push the property market down that far.
Gareth Aird, head of Australian economics at Commonwealth Bank, said the pace and size of rate rises had sped up price declines in Sydney and Melbourne, where the market had already been cooling. The sizable hikes had also seen price falls spread.
“The Brisbane market recently turned too… and has turned in a short space of time given the speed at which the RBA has put through rate hikes,” he said.
Aird had expected prices nationally to fall 15 per cent by the end of 2023, but said the trough could now be earlier than anticipated. He has forecast the cash rate to peak at 2.6 per cent by November.
Aird said more buyers were holding back, awaiting the floor in the market, which in turn put further downward pressure on prices.
Property prices are expected to keep falling as interest rates rise.Credit:Rhett Wyman
Center for Independent Studies chief economist Peter Tulip, who co-wrote a paper modeling the relationship between cash rate changes and property prices, said faster changes led to a faster response, but he did not expect it would make a noticeable difference to overall declines.
“As a rough rule of thumb a 1 per cent increase in the cash rate means an 8 per cent decline in house prices,” he said.
He noted it could take about two years for the impact of rates to flow through the market, and part of the picture now is a response to fixed mortgage rates starting to increase a year or more ago.
Westpac Business Bank chief economist Besa Deda said prices were falling at a sharper rate than in previous cycles, which could reflect the speed of rate hikes. While rates were rising from very low levels, and households in aggregate had built up financial buffers to handle higher repayments, the speed had affected the outlook for the property market.
Westpac has deepened its peak-to-trough forecast to a 16 per cent drop, expecting the cash rate would have to move higher, faster, to tackle inflation.
“The amount of tightening we’ve seen over the past four months…that’s probably accelerated the decline in dwelling prices, but that has been a necessity because of elevated inflation,” she said.
“If the RBA took a more casual approach… the risk is you’d end up with a higher [peak] rate, as it would take longer to bring down inflation and require more rate rises.”
Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can’t simply evolve under natural habitats. Dynamic visual systems that can navigate both land and water, therefore, have yet to power our machines — leading researchers from MIT, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), and Seoul National University in Korea to develop a novel artificial vision system that closely replicates the vision of the fiddler crab and is able to tackle both terrains.
The semi-terrestrial species—known affectionately as the calling crab, as it appears to be beckoning with its huge claws—has amphibious imaging ability and an extremely wide field of view, as all current systems are limited to hemispherical. The new artificial eye, resembling a spherical, largely nondescript, small, black ball, makes meaning of its inputs through a mixture of materials that process and understand light. The scientists combined an array of flat microlenses with a graded refractive index profile, and a flexible photodiode array with comb-shaped patterns, all wrapped on the 3D spherical structure. This configuration meant that light rays from multiple sources would always converge at the same spot on the image sensor, regardless of the refractive index of its surroundings.
A paper on this system, co-authored by Frédo Durand, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and affiliate of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and 15 others, appears in the July issue of the journal Nature Electronics.
Both the amphibious and panoramic imaging capabilities were tested in in-air and in-water experiments by imaging five objects with different distances and directions, and the system provided consistent image quality and an almost 360-degree field of view in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. . Meaning: It could see both underwater and on land, where previous systems have been limited to a single domain.
There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to fiddler crabs. Behind their massive claws exists a powerful, unique vision system that evolved from living both underwater and on land. The creatures’ flat corneas, combined with a graded refractive index, counter defocusing effects arising from changes in the external environment — an overwhelming limit for other compound eyes. The crabs also have a 3D omnidirectional field of view, from an ellipsoidal and stalk-eye structure. They’ve evolved to look at almost everything at once to avoid attacks on wide-open tidal flats, and to communicate and interact with mates.
To be sure, biomimetic cameras aren’t new. In 2013, a wide field of view (FoV) camera that mimicked the compound eyes of an insect was reported in Nature, and in 2020, a wide FoV camera mimicking a fish eye emerged. While these cameras can capture large areas at once, it’s structurally difficult to exceed 180 degrees, and more recently, commercial products with 360-degree FoV have come into play. These can be clunky, though, since they have to merge images taken from two or more cameras, and to enlarge the field of view, you need an optical system with a complex configuration, which causes image distortion. It’s also challenging to sustain focusing capability when the surrounding environment changes, such as in air and underwater — hence the impetus to look to the calling crab.
The crab proved a worthy muse. During tests, five cutesy objects (dolphin, airplane, submarine, fish, and ship), at different distances were projected onto the artificial vision system from different angles. The team performed multi-laser spot imaging experiments, and the artificial images matched the simulation. To go deep, they immersed the device halfway in water in a container.
A logical extension of the work includes looking at biologically inspired light-adaptation schemes in the quest for higher resolution and superior image-processing techniques.
“This is a spectacular piece of optical engineering and non-planar imaging, combining aspects of bio-inspired design and advanced flexible electronics to achieve unique capabilities unavailable in conventional cameras,” says John A. Rogers, the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the work. “Potential uses span from population surveillance to environmental monitoring.”
This research was supported by the Institute for Basic Science, the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the GIST-MIT Research Collaboration grant funded by the GIST in 2022.
Five days ago, Madison de Rozario won one of the toughest marathons of her career.
It left her completely exhausted — usually the marathon is the final event in for track and field.
However, she wasn’t going to let that stop her from adding to her growing legacy as one of Australia’s finest athletes.
So, the defending champion hit the track for the 1,500-meter race and, in the process, won her fourth Commonwealth Games gold, the most of any Australian para athlete.
Madison de Rozario will be one of the biggest names competing for the Australian team. (Getty Images: Alex Davidson)
De Rozario had hoped to sit back in the race and watch the field fight it out in front of her before making her charge.
However, it was a slow start, and she knew that, if she was going to win, she was going to have to change her tactics and go for broke.
“I realized I was going to be out front from one lap in. When you commit to taking the lead, you have to just back yourself,” she said.
While she looked comfortable for most of the race, the final stretch was tense.
De Rozario looked to be tiring, as Scotland’s Samantha Kinghorn started to push up.
The Australian — who is coached by retired legendary para athlete Louise Sauvage — managed to find just enough to pull ahead once again, while compatriot Angie Ballard produced a barnstorming final few meters to pip Kinghorn for silver.
“I definitely lost it for a little bit there. Angie came home so strong and Sam’s last 300 [metres] was unbelievable. [I’m] so happy I just managed to hold on to win,” Rozario said.
It was extra special to share the podium with her teammate, too.
“She has been in my corner since day one. We’ve been to four Paralympic Games together and to get to do this is its amazing,” she said.
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It was even more impressive considering the physical toll the marathon took on her — she described it as one of the most challenging courses she had ever tackled.
And, even though the 28-year-old thought she had recovered, she quickly realized that wasn’t the case.
“About maybe 600 meters into my warm-up, I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m definitely still feeling those 42kms in the arms today’. So, definitely brought that with me out there.”
De Rozario’s racing wheelchair was damaged in transit to Birmingham, and she had to rely on a cable-tie quick fix to hold it together for the marathon.
It’s been a hectic few days since then to get it ready for the track.
“This chair’s been driven all over the UK to try [to] get it fixed and, and I’ve had so many people come together [to help],” she said.
“Finishing touches this morning on it, so it’s something in the last-minute, kind of pulled together.”
De Rozario collected two Commonwealth Games gold medals on the Gold Coast in 2018, in the 1,500m T54 race and the T54 marathon.
It’s difficult to ask athletes to reflect on their achievements while they’re still in the thick of competing, so Rozario is simply enjoying this one before moving on to the next.
“Each race really does exist on its own, and so each one means as much as the last one.
“It’s incredible to look back on a career and be proud of it as a whole, but you remember each race and how it felt at the moment.”
