Drinks With Michael Renford
In September this year, he completed the Triple Crown of open water swimming, just the 45th person, to achieve the Triple Crown.
View ArticleJavelin with Kim Mickle
Congrats to Aussie javelin thrower Kim Mickle for her World Champs silver medal! Here’s our “Training Day” on Kim from February 2012.
View ArticleMuhammad Ali
Though equally reviled and idolised, he deserved the self-conferred epithet “The Greatest”.
View ArticleGeorge Daldry
George Daldry introduced new conditioning methods at a time when a game like rugby league was always going to frown upon a “fitness guru”.
View ArticleMarch 2012
Independence Day The Super League war split rugby league in two back in the 1990s. Can the new Independent Commission mend the code’s toxic rift? The game’s true believers have their doubts. BY IAN...
View ArticleHow Good Is Emma Mckeon
Emma McKeon is one newbie swimmer who may well have a London-bound formula.
View ArticleWater Polo with Nicola Zagame
Water polo is a sport made to measure for the Australian psyche: it’s rough, it’s tumble, and it’s played in water.
View ArticleDrinks With Mick Malthouse
Leonine Mick Malthouse, who, in costume, made the corporate buttoned and badged tacky black-and-white tracky almost debonair.
View ArticlePeak Experience
Climbing a high mountain produces scant adrenaline and offers little in the way of thrills. Instead it’s all about discomfort;
View ArticleHow Good Is Jessica Fox
Highly competitive and very bright 17-year-old will be the only woman representing Australia in the sport of kayak slalom at the London Olympics.
View ArticleEmil Zatopek
This Czech superstar is credited with inventing interval training, but he was a sporting pioneer in many ways.
View ArticleHitting Pay Dirt
20km crawling through mud, running through fields of electrically live wires and hanging onto greased monkey bars, among other things.
View ArticleAll White
New Zealand’s South Island has more snow than it knows what to do with ... so get over there and play in it.
View ArticleRowing with Kim Crowe
Yep, we still have the world’s most determined athletes ‒ and the best metaphor-producing rowers going around.
View ArticleDrinks With Lucas Parsons
Parsons turned pro aged 21 and for a decade was among the country’s best players, winning nine times around the world. Then it went downhill.
View ArticleHow Good Is Liv Parnov
Standing at just under 180cm tall, this athletic 17 year old is the youngest member of our 2012 London Olympics track and field team.
View ArticleJim Thorpe
Everything Thorpe did was a “first”. He played a staggering range of sports, and excelled at them all.
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