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…
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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…
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