{"id":415061,"date":"2024-08-01T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415061"},"modified":"2024-08-01T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T22:08:11","slug":"medal-assured-for-aussie-after-dessert-great-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=415061","title":{"rendered":"Medal assured for Aussie after 'dessert', 'great sleep'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian windsurfer Grae Morris will have a "big dinner, good dessert and a great sleep" then wake up in Marseille and chase Olympic<\/a> gold.<\/p>\n

The stocky 20-year-old guaranteed himself a medal on his Olympic debut by finishing the Paris Games<\/a> qualifying series in first place.<\/p>\n

The former rugby player is now set to face off in the final with Tom Reuveny of Israel, who qualified in second place, and New Zealand's Josh Armit.<\/p>\n

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The three windsurfers will race for gold at Marseille Marina in the south of France on Saturday morning (AEST).<\/p>\n

"Big dinner, good dessert and a great sleep," Morris said when asked how he would prepare for the decider.<\/p>\n

He spoke to Wide World of Sports for a feature published in February<\/a> about his background as a schoolboy rugby fullback.<\/p>\n

Born in Sydney to Kiwi parents, the 100-kilogram unit idolised All Blacks legends Richie McCaw and Dan Carter and dreamed of pulling on the famous black strip.<\/p>\n

\"Grae<\/p>\n

He played first XV rugby at Sydney's Cranbrook School but dropped the 15-man game to go all in on windsurfing when he graduated.<\/p>\n

"I'm pretty bloody happy [about specialising in windsurfing, that's for sure," Morris told Nine's Alex Cullen waterside in Marseille.<\/p>\n

"Rugby helped me on my path to getting where I am, everyone around me in rugby also helped and it's just carved who I am today. So it all paid off."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Morris this week became the first Australian man to contest Olympic windsurfing\ufeff since the Sydney 2000 Games.<\/p>\n

"It does ease my mind a little knowing that I'll be coming home with something in my hand," he said.<\/p>\n

"But I won't be fully satisfied until it's over."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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