Aug 13, 2023
By the time it was over — three frazzling, agonizing, exhausting hours later — the feeling around the Brisbane Stadium was not so much delight or euphoria or even relief, but a sort of dizziness. Not vertigo from the heights that Australia have now ascended, but something closer to nausea, from the winding, coiling road that took the host nation up into the clouds.
-- Australia Outlasts France on Penalties, and the Host Nation Exhales (12.08.23), The New York Times, Rory Smith, Reporting from Brisbane, Australia
