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Olympic and Commonwealth Games Champion, Anna Meares, today broke her own World Record for the 500m time trial in the morning session of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome today.
The 23 year-old Queenslander posted a time of 33.944 sec to take eight thousandths off the mark she set to win […]
… in Paul Johnson’s list.
The Australia’s Top 101 athletes list that was published on Alpha magazine pushed him to mull it over and come up with his own. But instead of listing 101 of them, he picked the top 25 that he thinks is notable.
Steve Waugh - cricket
Shane Warne - cricket
Pat Rafter - tennis
Mick Doohan […]
Australian Commonwealth Games Association chief Perry Crosswhite last night moved to end the saga.
Crosswhite has left it to Jana Pittman to give her gold medal back, like how she has expressed in her letter to the England Team since it is after all her property and it’s her prerogative if she wishes to consumate her […]
Australian runner, Jana Pittman sent a letter of apology to England for what had transpired during the Games and offered them her Gold. It may not fully resolve the issue but it can be considered an admirable gesture. Some locals have already expressed positive feedback, should this offer be real, over the whole incident since […]
Malta Olympic Committee hailed the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games results as the best ever in the history of Maltese sport. Malta had exceeded the number of medals won in the Games since they only won one medal during the Games in Manchester 2002. During Melbourne 2006, the country won one silver and one bronze.
One of […]
I don’t know how much of this issue has been known to readers of Light the Torch. I heard about it a few days ago and a recent update last night. Let me give you a brief background on what the issue is all about.
It was reported that half of the delegates from Sierra Leone […]
The fact that athletes actually party at the end of the Games.
If you’d seen the last part of the closing ceremony either as a live spectator or as a TV viewer, like me, you would’ve noticed how most of the athletes, if not all, came on to the stage while John Farnham was singing. They […]
It’s done. It’s over.
I have to admit the closing ceremony was fantastic! I’m glad I caught it on telly. I missed a few parts of it but I was there to witness some significant parts of it. It was another pyro-extravaganza! It makes me wonder how much they spent on just the fireworks. But man, […]
The Games are wrapping up. They’re handing out the last of the medals to the winners. So, the final tally of the medals will be up in a bit. Yes. It’s the last day today.
I’m counting down the minutes till they close the curtain on the closing ceremony. They’ve been talking about it a lot […]
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Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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