Ducati Marlboro rider Troy Bayliss rode to a dogged tenth-place finish in Rio yesterday, unaware tꦰhat wife Kim had given birth to their third child in Monaco earlier in the day.

The Aussie, who had high🐟 expectations for the race after qualifying just a fraction of a second o꧙ff the front row, rode as hard as ever but couldn't make an impact on the frontrunners.

"I tried ringing Kim this morning to see hoꦗw she was going but couldn't get through, I guess she must've already been in hospital!" said Bayliss, delighted with the birth but less happy with his worst finish in a while. "The bike wasn't as great as iﷺt usually is. We made a few tiny changes after morning warm-up and maybe we made it a little worse. I rode it 100 per cent, then 110 per cent, but I never went any faster; you live and learn."

Kim gave biꩵrth to baby Oliver in Monaco, he couple's third child after ♔Mitchell (7) and Abbey (5).

"I couldn't believe it when I spoke to🔯 Kim after the race, it's great news, at least something good happened today!" he joked.

"We should learn a lot from today," said technical director Corrado Cecchinelli after a𒐪 difficult afternoon, "and anyway, what I really want to do is congratulate Troy and Kim on the birth of their third child."