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Tell us your favourite sporting moment and win a 42″ LG70YD flatscreen TV, worth over $2,000.
What’s your all-time favourite Australian sporting moment?
Was it Warnie’s killer ball to Gatting? Beating the Yanks in the America’s Cup? Steven Bradbury’s gold medal at the Winter Olympics? Or something else.
We want to hear about the events or incidents that you’re still talking about today.
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Bec said | October 20th 2008 @ 7:06am | Report comment
The most memorable Australian sporting moment has to be when Cathy Freeman won Olympic Gold in the Womens 400m race at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Earlier, she was the first athlete in Olympic history to light the Olympic Cauldron as a current competitor. This well kept secret was a wonderful symbol of a united Australian nation. However, it also amplified the pressure of a gold medal outcome on the track. She went into the race as favorite and had the expectations of a nation on her shoulders. Anything can happen in an Olympic final and the whole of Australia had their hearts in their mouths as the starters gun sounded. 49.11 seconds later relief as Cathy finished in first place at her “home” Olympics.
Cathy then celebrated by controversially carrying both the Australian and Aboriginal flags on her victory lap around the stadium. A very moving moment.
Michael C said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:09am | Report comment
Does it matter if Australia lost? For me, the Alan Border and Jeff Thomson 10th wicket partnership that got oooh so close in ’82/’83 vs England at the MCG in the 4th test………………although, I was actually pleased because it (the win to Eng) meant the series still had a level of interest going into the SCG test.
I remember being in a ‘local’ department store in Sale, and being a relative young’un, I kept finding reasons to duck off to the TV/entertainment area, and check out the scores in the TV ‘display room’, finally, a bit of a crowd started building around me, and then they moved a TV on a trolley out into the store proper and a larger crowd formed.
And Australia lost……………but…………you have to take the good with the bad!! And AB certainly didn’t ‘lose’, it just helped build up his reputation.
Alan Nicolea said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:17am | Report comment
The most memorable australian sporting moment for me would have to be ‘that’ loss against the Kiwis at stadium australia in a test considered one of the greatest ever. The All Blacks scored three tries before you could say ‘waltz sing maltilda’ and then the Wallabies came back from the brink to lead. Then however Jonah Lomu scored the winner right on fulltime to give New Zealand victory. Although Australia lost, they did come back from the brink and it just shows the supreme character that Australian rugby sides have – more than other australian sporting side for me. It took one of Unions greatest ever players, let alone winger to seal the deal in front of more than 100,000 fans. The Wallabies did their nation pride despite the defeat.
Alan Nicolea said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:19am | Report comment
‘Proud’ not pride. Typo
Michael C said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:25am | Report comment
a de facto ‘TV’ moment, given I was there – the Jason McCartney comeback game.
That was ‘special’
Helped that we won, too.
’nuff said.
Brett McKay said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:29am | Report comment
I can’t go past Steve Waugh’s last-ball-of-the-day century against England in Sydney years ago, and not just for the fact that I was there watching it all unfold.
The pressure – both newspaper and chairman of selectors borne – was immense, and it was the ultimate response. As far as hundreds go, it wasn’t the prettiest. If I recall correctly, he was still pretty scratchy well into the 60′s, but the back-foot square drive to the Ladies Stand fence to bring up the ton was one the best shots I’ve ever seen.
An amazing shot to bring up an amazing hundred on an amazing day…
(That England won the Test is a mere detail almost forgotten as time goes on!!)
mtngry said | October 20th 2008 @ 8:52am | Report comment
I would have to go for Australia 2. I was only in Primary school, but stayed up all night with Dad to watch our ship come in.
(My mother and sister cheated and only woke up for the ast 15 minutes.) How could I overlook being the first nation to beat the Yanks in 120 years, and the PM wearing that jacket and calling bosses Bums?
Harry said | October 20th 2008 @ 9:11am | Report comment
For watching on the television, Australia 2 winning the America’s Cup in 83. Watched the whole race liveand, being a student at the time, participated heavily in celebrations the rest of the day. Strange really looking back that a yatch race betwen rich people could have been so exciting, but it was the combination of sporting drama and the truly historical nationla significance of the win that made it memorable. We looked “gone” several times during the best of seven series, and then in the final race. I can still remember the excitement when Australia 2 crossed ahead of Dennis Conners in the final leg and then holding him off down tthe finishing line.
For watching live, I was seated on the 22 in the Aus/NZ 91 semi final and had a great view of David Campese firstly wrongfooting most of the NZ backline to score in the corner and then his magical “no look” pass over the shoulder to Horan for the second try. We blagged our way into the bar overlooking the ground at Landsdowne Road both before and after the game and followed it up with a 9 hour pub crawl back into the centre of Dublin. The best Wallaby side I’ve ever seen and their greatest, most complete win.
Midfielder said | October 20th 2008 @ 9:15am | Report comment
John Aloisi goal in the 2005 world cup qualifier against Uruguay.
We had dinner at the Eastwood rugby club, caught the bus to Olympic stadium. Twelve of us who had been playing together as a football team for over 20 years. After the 1997 draw with Iran in Melbourne and all the things that had unfolded to stop Australia making other world cups including the crowd in 2001 and atmosphere in Uruguay. All this weighted heavy on our minds.
We all watches the first game at the Balmain leagues club and said we have a hope, can we win at home. The ghosts of the past made us very nervous …but we had Guss …… our best squad was available and on the park. Could we “Reverse the Curse” that had plagued Australian Football for years.
That night a tribute to Johnny Warren was played at the stadium, it had 80, 000 in tears, the atmosphere that night at the stadium as was like nothing I had never felt before and it was as if the crowd felt it was their duty to help Australia over the line. We cheered we booed we yelled….. passion was dripping off everyone.
The whole stadium was in gold, the crowd stood most of the night no one could sit down, we sang all the football anthems, when we scored to level the match the noise was such a cheer I have never heard the like of before.
Finally after 210 minutes, it came down to penalties, would fate again step in and rob us of our place. We all remembered in our minds 1997 and most of us did not sleep for days afterwards. After going one up and then Viduka missed, it was going to happen again, a glorious defeat.
Mark Schwarzer then made the save, up stepped John Aloisi ………. 32 years of heart ache, 32 years of near misses, 32 years of crap administration, my heart was pounding in my chest, we had booed all the Uruguay goals, silence for all the Aussie shot takers.
Aloisi steps up the goal goes in, the entire stadium felt a cheer that shock it to its foundations, streamers where exploded off the stadium roofs, we hugged we screamed we hugged strangers, we sang songs. Many had tears in their eyes hard men like builders, iron workers, and every occupation bankers, lawyers, accountants we all felt this is a moment of history.
Harry Kwell that night showed such touch that I have never seen ……… but we where through to the world cup, density 2006, the irony given Germany 1974.
But after 32 years we where going to the biggest sporting event in the world and maybe at last some respect ….. and as Johnny Warren told us ………… “I told you so”
We got back and spent the night reliving the match went to work all 12 still in our Socceroo shirts and proud that we had been there and had joined with the rest of the crowd to make the 12 man and maybe as I said before get some RESPECT at last.
For me nothing comes close to Aloisi’s goal, and to be there and be part of it,- is a treasured memory, and I believe a goal that has changed and redefined the sporting landscape in Australia.
True Tah said | October 20th 2008 @ 9:29am | Report comment
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can I ask the question, why doesn;t anybody seem to remember that Marco Bresciano scored the goal that actually put Australia to be in a position to enter the penalty shootout at the end? I have asked a few soccer heads this question, and most times they don’t even remember the name of the goal scorer.
No Bresciano goal, no penalty shootout, no Aloisi running half-naked around a stadium, no trip to Germany for the Socceroos.