Morning Report Essentials for Thursday 1 August

On today's episode, triathlete Hayden Wilde has won silver in the men's triathlon, we cross to Nathan Rarere in Paris, as well as talking to Hayden Wilde's proud grandparents, Guyon Espiner discusses a police study of drinking behaviour - sparked by a string of violent and sexual assaults in Wellington - points much of the blame on people preloading on cheap booze before hitting the town, and an editorial was written by AI in last weekend's weekend Herald, Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch joins us.