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Even first-time Olympian Max Esposito thinks the parallels between his modern pentathlon performance and his sisters efforts are freaky.The 19-year-old finished seventh in Rio - the same mark his Rio gold medal-winning sibling claimed in London.Esposito also went into the final round with a 45-second handicap, the same mark Chloe Esposito stormed home from to win gold on Friday night.And Chloe struggled with her fencing in 2012, just as Max did, ultimately leaving him just six seconds from claiming a bronze medal on Saturday.My fencing is always up and down, up and down like a rollercoaster, Esposito said after the race.Australians will be hoping the next parallel is Esposito winning gold in Tokyo 2020.He finished 29th in the fencing but placed in the top four in every other event.Esposito swam the fourth-fastest 200 metres, and scored the maximum possible points in the equestrian section, to sit 17th overall.Esposito was on the verge of fourth overall at one point in the combined running and shooting event, but a mixed final shooting performance cut valuable seconds from his chase.I was really happy with my running, the shooting I thought I could have done better, but I think a little bit of the crowd and people (distracted me), he said.Esposito said finishing seventh against athletes he watched as a 15-year-old in London was unbelievable.In my head I said `I want to get top 10 but I didnt tell anyone because I didnt want to jinx myself, he said.The Espositos are trained by their father Daniel - himself a former Olympian - and are known for their commitment.Weve got a reputation from all the pentathletes that we are psycho trainers, he said.Well, today coming here and showing that we can get a good result by Chloe getting gold and me getting seventh, shows hard training pays off.Russias Alexander Lesun won gold despite finishing 20th or worse in all the events bar the fencing, which he won.The Ukraines Pavlo Tymoshchenko won silver and Mexicos Ismael Hernandez Uscanga won bronze, just six seconds ahead of Esposito.So will Australians see Esposito in Tokyo?One hundred per cent. 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The game started the same way the Vancouver game started the night before, with the Jets taking the first two penalties of the game and killing off the first, but the Oilers getting on the board first, scoring on the second man-advantage.South Africa 242 (de Kock 84, Bavuma 51, Starc 4-71, Hazlewood 3-70) and 8 for 540 dec (Duminy 141, Elgar 127, Philander 73, de Kock 64) beat Australia 244 (Warner 97, S Marsh 63, Philander 4-56, Maharaj 3-56) and 361 (Khawaja 97, Nevill 60*, Rabada 5-92) by 177 runsScorecard and ball-by-ball detailsWhen Dale Steyn walked off the field clutching his broken right shoulder on Friday, you had to wonder if South Africa would remain competitive. It was not yet lunch on day two, and Australia were 1 for 166 in reply to 242. Already the visitors were without their captain and best batsman AB de Villiers, who did not make this tour due to injury. Now 417 Test wickets were leaving the field, not to return in this series. What could South Africa possibly do from there?Everything.From that moment on, they won virtually every session of the Test. They did so with no further contributions from Steyn, none from de Villiers, and all but none from Hashim Amla, the No.2-ranked Test batsman in the world, who in this match scored 0 and 1. And they did so against a team that since 1988 had not lost the opening Test of a home summer. At the WACA, that 28-year drought ended in emphatic fashion as South Africa won by 177 runs.At the heart of the victory was Kagiso Rabada, the 21-year-old fast bowler to whom, for the past year, Steyn has symbolically been passing South Africas pace baton. Here, Rabada simply ran away with it, destroying Australia in the second innings with pace, bounce, seam, conventional swing, reverse swing, searing yorkers, and the ability to target cracks in the pitch. In short, almost every weapon that makes a fast bowler dangerous. He finished with 5 for 92, and seven wickets in the Test.But he had plenty of assistance. Vernon Philander, the most experienced bowler in Steyns absence, led in the first innings with 4 for 56, and added one more in the second. He also struck an invaluable 73 with the bat. Keshav Maharaj, the only spinner ever to make his Test debut at the WACA, was accurate and tight, claimed three first-innings wickets and the match-winning dismissal before tea on day five. Dean Elgar, JP Duminy and Quinton de Kock led with the bat.And then there was Temba Bavuma, who couldnt be kept out of the action. Having scored a fighting half-century in the first innings - remember, South Africa were 4 for 32 on the first day, and then 5 for 81 - Bavuma produced one of the all-time great run-outs on day four to end any hope of David Warner saving Australia. When asked to bowl to give the strike men a rest on day five, Bavuma hit a crack first ball and would have had Usman Khawaja lbw for 84 had he not over-stepped.It didnt matter. Khawaja was accounteed for three overs later when he played back to another part-timer stepping up to share the load, the offspinner JP Duminy, and was lbw for 97.dddddddddddd He was Australias last specialist batsman and with him went any lingering hope they may have had of hanging on for a draw, though Peter Nevill did his best to fight as the day wore on. But Australia had been outplayed by South Africa since the end of day one.Their victory target was 539, but it was an irrelevant figure. It might as well have been 539,000. Never was this Australia XI going to rewrite Test history on a cracking pitch. Batting out nearly five sessions for a draw would be almost as hard. Australia began the final day on 4 for 169, with Khawaja and Mitchell Marsh at the crease, and it took only until the eighth over of the day for Rabada to break that stand.Using reverse swing, Rabada hooped a yorker in to Marsh, who was rapped on the foot and survived an lbw shout. However, South Africa asked for a review and despite the late swing, the ball was shown to be crashing into leg stump, overturning the umpires decision and sending Marsh on his way for 26. The Khawaja-Marsh partnership had been worth 50 and occupied almost 16 overs, but those numbers were trifling compared to what Australia required.Khawaja was the next to fall, and Rabada confirmed his five-for by trapping Mitchell Starc lbw to another inswinging yorker for 13 before the lunch break. In the next session, Philander had Peter Siddle lbw, before Josh Hazlewood joined Nevill for a partnership that frustrated the South Africans for 20 overs. It was Australias third-highest and third-longest stand of the game, but only served to highlight the failures up the order.Nevill and Hazlewood were threatening to make it to tea when, shortly before the break, Hazlewood closed the face and his leading edge was caught at cover, and at length Bavuma had his maiden Test wicket. The half-hour extension of the session was taken, and Maharaj eventually finished the job by trapping Nathan Lyon lbw. Nevill remained unbeaten on 60 from 153 balls, one of few Australians who will take much from this Test.The reality is that this match slipped away from Australia on day two, when they lost 10 for 86, beginning with Steyns only wicket of the match. South Africa will go to Hobart 1-0 up the series, and remain undefeated in Tests at the WACA. And all this without their best batsman and having lost their finest bowler to injury on the second morning. What could South Africa do from there? A better question: what couldnt they do? ' ' '