text:  Pavlos was in contention from the start, battling it out with his Australian rival Tom Slingsby in particular at the top of the fleet. And going into the last day of competition, he knew he'd already secured a first ever Olympic medal for Cyprus with just one more race to go. Tom Slingsby that day had two first places and he opened the gap from five points to 14. And that was a very hard mission to achieve, to achieve.