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Pros at play

An enforced two-week quarantine on entering Australia gave Cyrus Monk the chance to showcase his talent: the 24-year-old Aussie saxophonist once won the U23 nationals while studying for a major in physiology. But if the fruits from his hotel isolation were anything to go by, there’s much more to his armoury than cycling, sax and science.

Monk revealed himself to be a veritable renaissance man by combining hotel utensils (plastic cutlery, sachets of sugar, doors, drawers, a steaming iron) and his own falsetto, harmonica

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