They proceeded to turn the first round against France into a turkey shoot, before taking out the US.

But Tyack, 17, who arrived back in Australia on Wednesday from helping win the nation’s first junior world archery teams event, said their moment of truth was in the semifinal.

“They (the Italians) were the world record holders – but we just seemed to intimidate everyone else,” Tyack said yesterday. “All the teams we met seemed to shoot their worst when they came up against us.

“Being an AIS team seemed to help us – in the individual competition I just never felt comfortable, but in the teams we just fed off one another’s confidence.”

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