Mollie O'Callaghan has enjoyed a third triumph at the Commonwealth Games - but the story of a staggering seven-gold night for Australian swimming was the superstar's sensational dethronement in the 100m freestyle.
Attempting to defend her blue riband title, the five-time Olympic champion O'Callaghan had to give best to teammate Meg Harris in another Australian clean sweep of the medals.
She later returned to join Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey and Inez Miller in a procession for the 4x200 free gold, but it couldn't stop the questions concerning how much her back injury woes are continuing to hinder the 22-year-old ace.
O'Callaghan admitted that she had not felt like herself, even when winning the 200m free, but was cagey about any future re-evaluation of her plans.
"That's for my team and I," she said as Australia produced their most prolific day in the pool yet.
"I've opened up quite a bit, but there's a point where I just keep that all to my team.
"I just very much trust my team and my support team. I very, very much value their input in my rehab, and I've done modifications this far.
"I've really learned so much about myself off the modifications and rehabbing at the same time and racing. I think I've done very well considering, and I'm pretty proud of myself.
"I'm just so happy. Look, I wasn't meant to be here ... Meg absolutely killed it."
Harris, who may have been held back by a lack of self-confidence in the past, could hardly believe it after she clocked 52.90 seconds to O'Callaghan's 53.25 and the retiring Shayna Jack's 53.38.
"I still have my moments," 24-year-old Harris admitted.
"But as the years go on, there's a lot of things that come up that I think, 'Oh, maybe there is a chance that I can be better than this!'
"I mean, it's pretty incredible. I've never done that before. I've never been in that position, so hopefully this is just the start of my journey."
The blue riband sweep summed up the Dolphins' continued mastery on a night when they scaled new heights, collecting 15 medals in total.
First, shock 200m backstroke winner Jenna Forrester annexed her second title of the week convincingly in the 400m individual medley in 4 minutes 31.19 seconds, with Ella Ramsay taking bronze.
Then Alex Perkins, on her 26th birthday, won her fourth gold in as many days with a comfortable 100m butterfly final victory in 56.38.
"I always got a 100 fly final on my birthday no matter what competition, it seems like - and this is the first time I've won. It's awesome," beamed Perkins.
Sam Williamson, already champion in the 100m, again upset the odds in the breaststroke, delivering a thunderous late push to get up for gold in the 50m dash.
Williamson's charge was one of the meet's highlights as he prevailed in 26.50, 0.27 clear of South African Michael Houlie and 0.44 ahead of English Olympic great Adam Ramsay-Peaty.
Just a year after he feared he might not walk again following a training accident, more tears flowed from Williamson.
"It's been more like a bit of a horror movie for the last 14 months, but the last four days have been a fairytale," Williamson said.
The 400m champ Sam Short's bid for a quartet of individual distance freestyle golds continued apace with a majestic demolition of the inaugural 800m field in 7:39.81, leading home another Australian sweep with Ben Goedemans and Matt Galea taking the minor medals.
Para swimmer Beau Matthews added another gold in the 100m breaststroke SB9 final, while Harry Turner took silver and Matt Temple bronze in the 200m butterfly behind New Zealander Lewis Clareburt.
After four nights, Australia's swimmers now boast 23 gold medals, with Short admitting: "We're probably a bit fortunate they're split up into their different countries rather than GB, but we still get the job done regardless."
More is promised. Kyle Chalmers moved closer to the 10th gold medal that would take him past Ian Thorpe as the most successful Australian male swimmer ever at the Games as he qualified fastest for the 100m freestyle final.
