Posts Tagged "London 2012 Olympics"

Swimming’s hiccup in a slow, slow choke

By , 27 Feb 2013
 

Australian swimming’s doing just fine thanks, despite last week’s media-managed mea culpa by late night door-knockers and pill-poppers.

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Pistorius style tech threatens the Olympics’ integrity

By , 7 Oct 2012
 

The dust has settled on the second best Olympics ever, but an uncomfortable question surely lingers. What was Oscar Pistorius, a disabled athlete, doing competing at the Olympics, the planet’s zenith of athletic endeavour?

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Olympic Gold: is it worth its weight?

By , 20 Sep 2012
 

At the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the medals awarded to first place were silver and the runner up received a copper medal.

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Blade runner Pistorius tastes his own medicine

By , 4 Sep 2012
 

Double amputee ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius competed in the London 2012 Olympic Games last month, in which he made the men’s 400m semi final. On Sunday, he entered the Paralympics T44 200m final, and was naturally expected to clean the field to win gold.

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Olympics should be a time of celebration

By , 16 Aug 2012
 

I think it’s safe to say that many, if not the majority of Australians, believe the Australian Olympic campaign was a failure, purely based on a lack of gold medals.

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Never mind the Medal Tally, here comes the future

By , 15 Aug 2012
 

The games have been run and won, the flame is out and the partying/post mortem has begun. With that in mind, how do we rate London 2012 from the Australian perspective?

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These Olympics should mark the end of the Dream Team

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

The gold medal for the most predictable gold medal of the 2012 Olympic Games went to the USA’s men’s basketball team. I think we can do away with that predictability – and I think I have a way to do it.

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Olympic athletics was solid gold

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

After a dazzling week of track and field, the London Olympics have drawn to a close. While we at home battle through a post-euphoric haze of sleep deprivation, it’s the perfect time to pull the freshly-minted memories out and give them a quick polish before they go back in the sock drawer.

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Reflecting on the London Olympics

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

Some say the Australian Olympic team has been a failure during London 2012; others put our decline on the medal tally down to other nations simply improving.

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Another Olympics post-mortem

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

The Olympic Games showcase the world’s greatest athletes and allow us ordinary citizens to join our heroes on their Olympic journey.

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Evaluating Australia’s performance in the pool

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

Now that the Olympics have finished, Australia’s performance in different sports will be scrutinised and evaluated. In the swimming, consensus is that Australia had a disappointing meet.

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Olympics highlight the silliness of code wars

By , 14 Aug 2012
 

As the London 2012 Olympic Games came to an end, I found myself reflecting on what was a truly amazing spectacle. Heading into the Games, I was unsure what my level of interest would be.

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London 2012: Steve Hooker tries to defend his Olympic title on Day 8 of the Athletics

By , 10 Aug 2012
 

There are six gold medals available on day 8 with Steve Hooker going for gold in the Men’s Pole Vault and Dibaba looking to win her forth gold medal in the Women’s 5000m.

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Success is not only about medals

By , 10 Aug 2012
 

With four gold medals in the last three nights, the London Olympics are starting to not look so bad for Australia. But what struck me as I watched Sally Pearson become our latest golden girl in a night of Aussie glory, is the stark contrast in treatment between our track athletes and swimmers.

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Patty Mills ceiling is higher than expected

By , 10 Aug 2012
 

When Australian basketballer Patty Mills was playing well at St Mary’s college in California, there was serious momentum behind the notion that he may even be fortunate enough to sneak into the NBA.

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Should Steffensen even be in the 4x400m relay team?

By , 10 Aug 2012
 

On Thursday, the ninth of August, the Australian Men’s 4x400m relay team will line-up in the heats. In recent times the this team has had much success, winning silver at the 2004 Olympics and more recently bronze at the 2009 World Championships.

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Rugby league should be an Olympic sport

By , 10 Aug 2012
 

The time has come. Ever since I’ve been watching rugby league, efforts have been made to broaden the game’s international horizons.

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Please Olympians – have fun, for our sake

By , 9 Aug 2012
 

I was interested to read an article by Shaun Carney in The Age today, on the Australian Olympic team’s “failure” at the London games. Most particularly, with this line, which summed up the thrust of his argument:

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Does social media impact performance?

By , 9 Aug 2012
 

For the hardcore social media fanatics, try refraining from Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools for a day and you might experience isolation or anxiety.

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SPIRO: Hurrah! Australia has finally won more gold than New Zealand

By , 9 Aug 2012
 

Alan Moir, the brilliant cartoonist from The Sydney Morning Herald, once again nailed home his point in today’s newspaper.

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