Posts tagged ‘sport’
Hassiba Boulmerka: Defying death threats to win gold
It’s an Olympic year and for those of us living in Australia, the focus on athletic performance tends to overshadow the social and cultural importance of the events in other …
The First True American Woman Road-Racer
OK – she isn’t Australian, but I reckon the story of Julia Chase-Brand is worth telling to as wide an audience as possible. To a generation of women who enter …
World Boxing Federation Wants Female Boxers to Wear Skirts
Women will get a chance to box in the Olympics for the first time in 2012 in London but if the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) has anything to say …
Australian cricketer, Belinda Clark, inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
Congratulations go to Belinda Clark who, on September 12, was one of three Australians (the others were Alan Davidson and Fred Spofforth) announced as the 2011 inductees into the ICC …
Well done Sam Stosur!
Congratulations to Sam Stosur, who won her first Grand Slam Tennis Title on September 11, 2011 when she outplayed and out-classed Serena Williams in the final of the US Open. …