Tears welled up in Melissa Tapper's eyes and her voice broke as she struggled to contain her emotions last Saturday.
The 28-year-old para-paddler had just won Australia's first table tennis gold medal at the Commonwealth Games since the sport was introduced in 2002, in front of an adoring home crowd at the Oxenford Studios, no less.
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