We were strapped into our couches, anticipating our best shot yet at a gold medal. We’d just eaten a dinner with green and gold veggies (sweetcorn and broccoli), donned our favourite Aussie t-shirts (we all did this, right?), turned on the telly and… nuffin. There was a snowboard cross course there somewhere. We just couldn’t…
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Aussies set the bar high… everywhere
Almost half a century ago, a bloke called Dick Fosbury came up with a new way of getting over the high jump bar. Today, the Fosbury Flop is the sport’s standard. It may not be the coolest name and it may well have raised a few questions about Dick’s performance in other areas but Fosbury…
It’s all on show at Sochi
A quick word to all the lads in the ski slopestyle. Please, for the love of all things tasteful, pull your pants up. Don’t imagine for a second while you’re doing all your tricks and twirls that we at home have any desire to see your clacker. Or your undies. Especially the grey marle variety….
And the Aussies are on the board!
If you took all the Winter Olympics athletes and stuck them in a classroom, the snowboarders would be the cool kids sitting up the back, tilted on two legs of their chair, flicking rubber bands at the nerds. They are sport’s anti-athletes, the ones that go out of their way to look like they don’t…
Excuse me, I didn’t order this slushie
Watching the women’s ski slopestyle final yesterday, Ice Age’s hapless sabre-toothed squirrel Scrat and his all too fleeting embraces with his precious acorn came to mind. For 30 tantalising minutes, we had a bronze medal in our fingertips. Or at least Anna Segal did. And then a Canadian took it off her. Ski slopestyle is…
Crashes a-go-go at Sochi
The Winter Olympics has always been a bit of a poor relation to its older summer sibling. Fewer athletes, too many clothes. But if there’s one area where the Winter Games come into their own, it’s in the element of danger. Downhill skiers descend mountains faster than the highway speed limit. The lugeys go just…
Sochi: Aussie hopes on ice… for now
OK, let’s deal with the elephant in the room. If there is one weakness in the Australian sports physiology, it is in the pursuits involving ice and snow. It’s not our fault. We are, after all, bronzed Aussies. We love a sunburnt country. Drought and bushfire are the natural ravages of our land. Our minds…
An Olympics volunteer welcomes you to Sochi
Privet. My name Vladimir, like man I love in totally non-sexual way. Welcome to Sochi, one of warmest cities in Russia. Is perfect place for Winter Olympics, da? Please to put on your sunblock. Some people say not nice things about Sochi. My job to tell truth, put record straight. The thing about buildings not…
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