“When Olympic javelin throwers launch, the first thing you think is that the spear is going to fly all the way out of the stadium. The second, as it descends, is that it’s going to go through one of the officials converging at its landing place. At night, it is particularly beautiful, like “threading a needle through the sky”.

“Those last words belong to Kelsey-Lee Barber, who threaded her needle through the sky into a bronze-medal position in Tokyo on Friday night….”

Read the full article by Malcolm Knox for The Sydney Morning Herald.