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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Isadora Cerullo has become a celebrity around Rio, more for what happened on the sidelines of the Olympic rugby stadium than for her performances on the pitch.The stadium was largely empty after the womens rugby sevens tournament -- the first in Olympic history -- when venue manager Marjorie Enya walked onto the grass to ask Cerullo, her girl-friend, an important question: Will you marry me?As volunteers and others surrounded them and held red heart-shaped balloons, Cerullo said yes. The moment was caught on TV cameras and broadcast around the world. So for all the tackling and try-scoring, it could just be the proposal that remains among the defining moments of the tournament.People were still waving and calling out well done to Cerullo two days later outside the Deodoro Stadium on Wednesday as she stood for an interview with The Associated Press.She takes great pride in the courage it took for Enya to pop the question in such a public forum.There is actually a statistic that more athletes are coming out after what happened, and even Rio has the highest number of `out athletes ever, Cerullo said. So maybe well hear about more athletes being more comfortable, just being themselves and proud of who they are. I hope so.Cerullo started playing rugby while she was studying biology and human rights at Columbia University in New York.Her coach there, knowing Cerullos parents were from Brazil, recommended Cerullo try out for the Brazilian team, which was fielding teams in the Olympic mens and womens rugby tournaments as the host nation. She has been living in Brazil since then.And it was rugby that brought the pair together -- Enya was the manager of Brazils womens rugby sevens team when Cerullo joined the program in 2014 to prepare for the Olympics. They started dating not long after. Enya left her job at the rugby federation to take a position with the Rio 2016 organizing committee -- ensuring theyre both involved in the Olympics.The Brazilian teams were never expected to win a medal, but performed above expectations and placed a credible ninth in the 12-team womens tournament won by Australia.Cerullo believes her legacy as an Olympian, thanks to Enya as well, is significantly more important than some statistics for tackles and tries.The unexpected proposal was unbelievably special, she said, and fits with the spirit and values of the Olympics and rugby.Respect is a huge overlapping value of the two, Cerullo said. To be able to feel free, comfortable and secure in Rio, and to be able to be myself and not have to hide anything is special. Its strange that it has to be something special, but at the same time its special that were getting so much positive support.It was in stark contrast to the previous Olympics, the Winter Games in Sochi, where gay athletes and couples come under scrutiny because of Russian laws.Knowing that a lot of those athletes, seeing myself represented in those athletes, made me just really uncomfortable and upset in a lot of ways, Cerullo said. I was studying human rights at Columbia at the time, so all that wrapped into those events made it really tough.Having a complete 180, a complete turnaround here in Rio, knowing that everybody is embracing this idea of respect and diversity and a lot of support for female athletes.Gay marriage is legal in Brazil, says Cerullo, as well as in the United States. 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It happened in Hobart, in Perth, and before that in Colombo, Galle and Pallekele as well. In some of these Tests there have been passages when a pair has settled in, but a breakthrough for the bowling team has generally led to a flurry of wickets, and this malaise has been more acute in 2016 than it has been in a long time.In eight Tests this year, Australia have had 79 partnerships for the top six wickets, of which 35 have ended before going past single digits. That is a whopping 44% of top-order partnerships that havent gone past 10, which is the worst for them in more than 100 years: the last time that percentage was higher was in 1901, when they played just one Test, and had seven sub-ten partnerships out of 12, for the top six wickets across both innings.In the last 100 years, the next highest percentage for Australia was in 1956, when 37 out of 95 partnerships for the top six wickets ended before getting to 10, a percentage of 38.95. The year 2011 was tough too, with a percentage of 37.76, but in their best batting years, the failure rates have been really low: it was just 6.06% in 2007 (two out of 33), 11.29 in 1998 (14 out of 124). Even in the two previous years, the percentages were in the early 20s - 21.26 in 2015, 22.43% in 2014. In fact, Australias average partnership for the top six wickets in 2014 and 2015 was 50.47; in 2016, it has slumped to 36.58. From an average of one century partnership in seven attempts in those two years, the frequency has reduced to one every 13 attempts in 2016.Of those 35 single-digit partnerships in 2016, eight came in Hobart, five each in Perth and Colombo, seven in Galle and six in Pallekele. Even in an innings when they scored big - 562 against New Zealand in Wellington - there were still three sub-10 partnerships among the first six wickets. That suggests an unhealthy reliance on a few batsmen to score all the runs, and too many top-order failures onn a regular basis.dddddddddddd*In a calendar year, since 1930 Even when comparing with other teams in 2016, Australias failure rate in partnerships stands out: even Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have a lower percentage of sub-10 partnerships, while the failure rate is considerably lower for the other top sides. India have had only nine completed stands of less than ten, out of 71 partnerships for the top six wickets, a percentage of less than 13. Australias top order, on the other hand, have had 11 partnerships of zero, and 24 others between one and nine, in 79 stands. For England, Pakistan and South Africa, the percentage is below 30. The two top-order partnerships that have been most disappointing for Australia have been the ones between David Warner and Joe Burns, and between Steven Smith and Adam Voges. In ten partnerships between Warner and Burns, the pair has added only 184 runs, of which 100 came in one innings, at the start of the year against West Indies in Sydney. The last six stands between them read thus: 3, 2, 0, 3, 2, 0.Smith-Voges has been even poorer, with 89 partnership runs from eight innings at 12.71. Between these two pairs, they have contributed 12 single-digit stands in 18 partnerships. The one consistently prolific pair for Australia has been Usman Khawaja-Smith: in six innings they have four partnerships of 50 or more, and a superb average of nearly 57. The contrast for these two pairs before and since the start of 2016 is particularly stark, and is symptomatic of Australias batting slump. Before 2016, both Warner-Burns and Smith-Voges had average partnerships of more than 70. Together, the two pairs added 1474 runs in 18 partnerships, at an average of 86.71, with six century stands. Since the start of 2016, these two pairs have added 273 runs in 18 partnerships, at an average of 16.06. This five-fold drop in partnership aggregate and average for these two pairs best illustrates Australias batting nosedive in 2016. ' ' '