If you Googled the last time Team Down Under had to wait a week between gold medals, it’d come back: Computer says no. Not since shoulder pads and big hair were fashionable and Kylie unleashed Locomotion on the world have we faced such a lean patch in the Golden Roughs department. Still, our overall medal tally continues…
Category: London Olympics 2012
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Day 7
Let’s be honest, it never really feels like the Olympics till the track and field gets underway. It’s where the real egos of the Olympic movement strut their stuff and the shorter the distance they cover, the bigger the swagger. It’s where some of the greatest moments of sporting history, good and bad, have been…
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Day 6
There are some medals that feel special because they come out of nowhere. Eighteen-year-old Aussie kayaker Jessica Fox is one of those. The youngest and eighth fastest qualifier in the kayak slalom, Jess wasn’t given a realistic chance of medalling. Up against the very best in the world, it was thought she was there largely…
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Day 5
I woke to carnage. When I went to bed last night, the Poms had finally bagged their first gold medal out at Eton Dorney. That was bad enough. But by the time I got up, they’d dug up another, thanks to Bradley Wiggins and his infernal time trial prowess. Worse, the Poms had moved ahead…
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Day 4
Some bloke called William Arthur Ward, who made a living out of writing inspirational quotes, once said: “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” And as Day Four dawned in London and the 100-metre freestyle heats beckoned, the question on everyone’s lips was: Can Magnussen bounce back? Course he can! Big strapping…
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Day 3
It was a night of mixed emotions, where backstroker Emily Seebohm was devastated with silver and Diesel Leisel ecstatic with fifth. And added in was the measure of relief we perhaps all felt when bad boy Nick D’Arcy faltered in his Olympic campaign. It was a night that proved again there’s no such thing as…
London Olympics: Aussie hoighloights Days 1 and 2
It’s a routine we’ve made our own. On Day One of Olympics competition, we head to the pool and plunder its gold. But coming in to the last event of the day, Team Down Under was in very foreign territory – completely and utterly medalless. Our great hope Stephanie Rice had given it her all…
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