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The “other side” of the Olympics!

There are numerous satellite events at the Games that can keep you as busy as going to the actual sporting competitions. Saturday night it was Austrade’s Australia Unlimited Event taking place at the impressive…

Birging and Corfing

Well that’s the opening ceremony done and dusted! We can now get on with the real business of the next fortnight or so. Oh yes the birging and corfing! Although you may never heard of these terms, let…

When a Gold Medal doesn’t define a Champion

Just when you think the Olympics is all about gold medals, you come across an athlete who defines what being a champion really is. Kieran Behan is only the second male Irish gymnast to qualify for the…
Aus Road Cycling Team.

Men’s Cycling Road Race

One of the very first blue ribbon events to be contested this Olympics is the men’s cycling road race, contested over 250km, including 9 laps of the Box Hill circuit. One look at the profile map, and you…

Leopard changes spots!

Yesterday I wrote a blog that panned opening ceremonies as a jingoistic waste of money that left me cold. Please ignore it! The one I have just watched was life affirming, a celebration of everything…

Where sport and culture meet… unfortunately

From the outset let me say I am no real fan of the opening ceremony genre. I can stomach the lighting of the cauldron by an athletic legend of yesteryear via harebrained method but the rest of the nationalistic…

Olympic success! It’s all in the preparation

We are about to witness an extraordinary sporting carnival, made possible only by much preparation. London has been busy building new housing, road and transport infrastructure, state-of-the-art sports…

The Olympics have started…

Yes the opening ceremony is on Friday night but Olympic competition quite literally kicked off yesterday with the GB women’s football team beating NZ 1-0 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. This was the first…