Five days on the Olympic couch, and you are starting to feel as if youve hit the cobblestones in the cycling road-race and gone straight over the handlebars.Irregular sleep patterns, when you wake up, becoming disoriented and anxious over the fact that you are watching table tennis in the middle of the night, eventually sees you develop red dots all over your body. Then again, you think if such a blotchy look is good enough for 21 gold medal-winning Michael Phelps it must be good enough for you.But what keeps you going, endlessly flicking the channels and the App one more time in search of a sport that for four years youve completely forgotten about, is the rousing human interest stories -- involving those individuals with the common touch. The Australian Olympic team is providing plenty of those stories.Among the early Australian medal winners have been an exceptional female athlete who gave up being a motor mechanic to pursue Gold, another who admitted to devouring huge tubs of ice cream before events, and those who love showing a common national trait of being laconic.The first Australian medallists of the Games -- the archery mens team of Taylor Worth, Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack -- seemed a bit surprised by the attention when they were pursued by the media to explain how excited they were to win bronze.Television interviewers did their best to have them yahooing down the microphone, but they kept a lid on it. They had more events to compete in, so there was not yet any point big noting themselves -- especially as they were eager to win bigger prizes. They made the right comments, but there was no whooping or hollering.Then emerged the irresistible, beaming smile of Catherine Skinner after she had won gold in the womens trap shooting event. This was someone we could really relate to.Due to her persistence in wanting to be a successful shooter, her pursuit of a chemical engineering degree has taken eight years. She also had no qualms explaining that her diet was somewhat different to others at the Olympics. She has a serious sweet-tooth.In one radio interview after her gold medal success, she admitted to altering her routine while in Rio.I had to adapt a little bit because I did my personal best a few years ago after I ended up eating an entire pint of Ben & Jerrys the night before for dinner, Skinner said. So last night I had to sneak over to the McDonalds and get a big McFlurry.Skinners father, who encouraged her when she was 12 to try clay target shooting at their local bush club, was back on the family farm just out of Mansfield in the Victorian High Country. Daughter looked straight down the television camera to tell him: Hi Dad. I did it.Nice moment, as was the euphoria surrounding the Australian womens rugby sevens teams triumph. It was impossible not to be affected by their performances, or how their victory tantalised a nation.Heading the Australian team was Sharni Williams, who had been a motor mechanic in Canberra before deciding several years ago to focus on sevens football.Asked how it felt to win gold, Williams laughed: Heavy. Seriously, this gold medal is heavy.As touching was the haka performed by the New Zealand team after the final loss. 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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Blas Perez and his FC Dallas teammates didnt get discouraged when they fell behind twice in the second half. Instead, they responded in kind. "It is important to tie the game before anything and there is always urgency," the Dallas forward said. "When you tie the game like that, its always a psychological hit on an opponent." Blas Perez scored his second goal in the 66th minute to lift MLS-leading FC Dallas into a 2-2 tie Saturday night with the Colorado Rapids, who got two goals from Atiba Harris. "Our team showed a lot of character," Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman said. "When you are on the road, altitude, difficult times, we have a player down with the Jamaican National team (Je-Vaughn Watson) and left two starters home, we had a lot of reasons to fold. "We had a lot of reasons to fold, but it showed a lot of character to go down, come back, go down again and come back." Perez had only three goals in his previous 13 games for FC Dallas (8-2-4), which is unbeaten in its last four meetings with the Rapids. "The boys did a great job today because FC Dallas is a good team," Colorado coach Oscar Pareja said. "We got the lead twice and we were frustrated." FC Dallas is 7-1-4 in its last 12 games. They have outscored their opponents 21-14 in that stretch and lead the MLS with 29 goals. The Rapids (5-4-5) extended their unbeaten streak to six games, a stretch that includes three wins. Colorado is 5-1-3 in its last eight. Goalkeeper Clint Irwin is 5-2-4 with five shutouts since becoming the starter.dddddddddddd Dallas won the first meeting, 1-0 on March 2. Neither team had a shot on goal in the first half. The closest a team came to scoring came in the 37th minute when Perez took a feed from Fabian Castillo and put the ball past Irwin. The goal was waved off because the ball was clearly past the end line when Castillo made the pass. "It was a tough game going back and forth in the first half," said Perez. "Both teams had chances in the second half." Then came a 10-minute period where all four goals were scored. "I think we stayed with what we had been doing in the first half," Harris said of the difference in scoring chances for the Rapids. "We were able to create a lot more space in the second half." The offences took control of the game in the second half. Harris made the first shot of the game count with his header past the dive of Dallas keeper Raul Fernandez in the 56th minute, taking an inbounds throw from defender Marvell Wynne. "I had good position in the box and I got a handle on the ball and scoredh Perez got the equalizer in the 64th minute. Harris blocked a cross, but the ball bounded back to Perez, who easily beat Irwin. Two minutes later, Harris got behind the Dallas defence, putting Colorado ahead 2-1. Perez countered in the 66th minute with a low drive from the slot, 22 yards out. "It was just a great pass from Jackson," Perez said. "He saw the defender going for the ball and he went over him." ' ' '