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When Darren Albert crossed the line, Newcastle partied like it was 1999. After 11 years it still gives me chills, So it's my favourite sporting thrill.

the 4x100 mens freestyle relay at the Sydney Olympics 2000! i was shutting and standing up jumping with our boys when they touch the finish line !!

My favourite sporting moment would have to be AUSTRALIA Beating the Loud mouth 'Yanks' in the 25th America’s Cup? The was year of 1983. It was famous year for AUSTRALIA and Alan Bond, for we won the America’s Cup! USA Challenger. .One that they can never live down!! AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI :-)

My grandparents filmed my first netball grandfinal game 20 years ago. When my Nanna died recently- we had to sort through her posessions and I found the tape and watched it. It may not be a gold medal winning performance, but it was funny to watch and lovely to listen to her and my grandfather's encouraging comments from the sidelines. That will always be my favourite Australian sporting moment now.

Okay - Syndal Tally Ho - - 2001, set the scene, round 1, a fine start to the season, seniors and reserves both manage a win. Anzac Day falls early the week following. The phone calls come early in the morning, the club rooms are guttered by fire (seemingly set by local hoons/druggies). Already, we'd entered the season with a club stalwart taking on the unenviable role of coaching BOTH seniors and reserves. Suddenly, no clubrooms - we needed a new ground for the season. As it turned out - - the potential of suddenly having no club - - we found a venue, and we found strength in unity - and we won BOTH seniors and reserves premierships, and our end of season trip went off despite the Ansett collapse......... and the shirts told the story, 1 club 2 teams 1 coach 1 fire 2 flags & no planes

UNSWCC 5th grade premiership in 95/96 was clearly the outstanding moment for sport in the 20th century. I can give 10 other blokes who will proudly agree. One of these players and the Captain, Senior Constable Robert Stark, was recently quoted as saying " too much talk has been had recently of the Invincibles and of Steve Waugh's Aussie cricketers with not enough talk of my 5th grade premiership side. Who will forget the semi at Manly Oval where Gav Harris kept launching 6's over the trees. Who will forget Orcas gold card at the Coogee Bay after the final. Can anybody remember who payed for the drinks in '48 at the end of the tour? I don't think so. Some things will never be forgotten and that premiership is one of them." Rob's comments clearly capture the greatness of the moment. Randwick Oval was no longer the galloping greens', but was the bumble bees' for 2 whole days over that easter.

Whats the best way to 'stick it up them'? Come from lane eight and win gold! You legend Keiran Perkins!

My favourite sporting moment would have to be the America's Cup in WA. Regardless of ones' interest in yachting or sailing, the sheer beauty and grace of the contesting vessles was a sight to behold....and when Australia won!!! The rest, as they say, is history.

The proudest moment for me as an Aussie sports fan would have to be when little Lleyton Hewitt absolutely squashed David Nalbandian 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 to win the 2002 Wimbeldon grand slam. His unflinching tenacity and killer court speed helped him to seal the deal despite rain delays and even a male streaker, little Lleyton could handle all the balls in the world that day! So for becoming the youngest Wimbeldon mens champion since Boris Becker in 1986, Lleyton is the man for me! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

My greatest Australian sporting moment - I am sure it was when I won the 1500 metres in high school (my best mate Kim - who always won everything) was second by just under a metre - Kim had gone into the race as a short priced favourite and you guessed pipped at the post by yours truly. We still talk about it today (to be truthful - most of the talking is done by me)!

It was that Jamacian man who ran the 100 meters at the olympics this year. I have never seen anything like it - he really just danced his way home to the finish line and looked like he could just keep on running. And when you heard his background story it is just an amazing story from start to finish line.

My favourite moment in sport was in the Sydney 2000 Olympics, when the young Eric Moussambani won his race even though he had only trained and learned to swim in 2 weeks! The reason he won was that all other competitors were disqualified after they jumped in too early. The only one who didn't jump in early was Eric the eel. This is possibly the most amazing, humerus, and honourable moment in sport as the young man gave it all his best.

I never thought in my lifetime I would see such an amazing feat as The legend - Makybe Diva winning her third Melbourne Cup on that historic first Tues in November 2005. Flemington was awash with her colours of red, white and blue. With a weight of 58kg and ridden by Glen Boss she was favourite - and she was the peoples favourite and boy, she did not disapoint us with her mighty performance. We will never see another horse like her or a Melbourne Cup like that one. As her owner said after the race just before annoucing her retirement " To win one cup is amazing, to win two is a dream. Three is more than history" This has got to be right up there with the greatest sporting moments ever.

The men's 4x100m freestyle relay at the Sydney Olympics. It was the opening night of competition at the 2000 Olympics, and all eyes were on the pool. More than fifteen-thousand screaming, cheering, flag-brandishing fans, and a handful of "publicity shy" celebrities and politicians, crammed every nook and cranny of the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, hoping to see our swimmers make Olympic history. Earlier in the evening, a 17-year-old Ian Thorpe obliged them by winning his first Olympic gold medal, shattering his own world record, in the men's 400m freestyle. Now, barely an hour later, he was lining up with Michael Klim, Chris Fydler, and Ashley Callus to anchor our 4x100m freestyle relay team. Would he, could he, along with his teammates, make Olympic history again? Not if the Americans had anything to do with it. The United States had owned the title deed to the race since its inception as an Olympic event 32 years prior. Nobody had ever beaten the American 400m freestyle relay team at an Olympics Games. And this night, according to the USA's then 50m freestyle champion, Gary Hall, Jr. would be no different. He bragged that the Americans would smash the Aussies, their main rivals, like guitars. As Michael Klim took to the blocks, a palpable feeling of nervous excitement spread through the largely Aussie crowd. If ever there was an opportunity for Australia to re-establish itself as a world swimming superpower, after decades of mostly disappointing performances in the pool, this was it. Dead silence. Over the PA system came: "Take your marks." Then with a resounding BEEP the race was on. Klim, swimming in lane five, powered to an early lead. An overhead camera revealed that he was half a body length in front of his nearest competitor, the American 50m freestyle hotshot, Anthony Ervin, just midway through the first lap. He was setting an incredible pace, but would he be able to maintain it? Coming off the wall, into the second lap, with a world record split, he was still in front but was tiring. For Australia to have any chance of being the first nation to beat the USA, he'd have to hold onto the lead. Spinning his arms like a pair of windmills on nitrous oxide, he kept the gap between himself and Ervin a respectable one and touched the wall first. With a shocked gasp, Dennis Cometti's co-commentator, Andrew Baildon, informed the television audience that Klim had just broken the men's 100m freestyle world record. The crowd was going nuts. Chris Fydler hit the water next. Fydler was a capable competitor but an unknown quantity to most casual swimming fans. With no world records and no major titles to his name, he had just two laps to prove that he wasn't our weakest link. As he approached the wall for the turn, the head-start that Klim had handed him was all but gone. A couple of strokes into the second lap, the American, Neil Walker, had caught up to him. For the next 25 metres the two of them battled for the lead. Then Fydler, drawing on the energy of the screaming crowd and what little reserves he had left, stormed ahead of Ervin. As his fingers met the wall, he'd managed to reclaim the half a body length advantage he'd relinquished. Now it was Ashley Callus' turn to try to nudge us closer to victory. This was a crucial part of the relay for us. If Callus could get Thorpe into the water ahead of the USA, the Olympic champion would have a better than good chance of helping us capture the one gold medal that had eluded every swimming nation except America. Callus dove into the pool, only to find veteran USA relay swimmer Jason Lezak right alongside him when he surfaced. Lezak overtook Callus and turned into the second lap a stroke in front of him. The venue shook from the overwhelming clamour of the Aussie spectators as they cheered Callus on. Callus dug deep and, with just fifteen metres to swim, snuck past Lezak, beating him to the wall. Thorpe, who wasn't a 100 metre specialist, now had the split-second advantage he needed. This was it! A huge roar of excitement erupted from the crowd as Thorpe sprang into the water and started ploughing his way to a possible history-making finish. But no sooner had he settled into his stroke than sprint ace, Hall, shot past him. Although Thorpe usually came home faster than he went out, he couldn't afford to give Hall too big a lead. Hall hadn't already competed that night, so he was the fresher man, plus he was a much more experienced short distance swimmer than Thorpe. Parlaying even a modest lead into a gold medal wouldn't be difficult for him. Thorpe tumbled into the final lap, behind Hall, who was going like an express train toward the wall. With scarcely twenty seconds left to decide the race, the USA looked poised to seize the gold yet again. Suddenly Thorpe switched the afterburners on and, in a flurry of foam, surged forward to be dead-level with the brash American. Fifteen metres to go! The noise from the crowd rose from thunderous to earshattering. Thorpe began to edge away from Hall. A hoarse Dennis Cometti bellowed, "Thorpe is overhauling him!" Three metres from the finish, and Hall made a last ditch attempt to overtake Thorpe. They both lunged for the wall, but Thorpe's slight lead brought it closer to his fingertips and... BOOM! The gold medal was ours! And in world record time! People in the stands leapt to their feet, danced, threw their arms around each other, and made so much noise that the Aquatic Centre roof threatened to abandon Earth for the ionosphere. Thorpe jumped out of the water to celebrate with his teammates. The quartet engaged in a spot of mock guitar-smashing, sticking it to the Americans. The Americans were shell-shocked. Gary Hall, Jr. looked as if he'd just found out that his mother had been arrested for a series of liquor store hold-ups. They weren't the only ones reeling from the stunning upset. When the telecast crossed back to the Channel 7 Olympic studio, the normally garrulous Bruce McAvaney spent several embarrassing seconds floundering for words. Finally, he emerged from bewilderment to tell the viewers that, since 1968, every men's 400m freestyle relay gold medal had been won by the USA -- until then. It had taken us two world records to beat the Americans. But beat them we did in what was the most thrilling men's relay ever swum at an Olympic Games.

The best sporting moment in my mind was when an olympic swimmer for his country was miles behind everybody else but he kept on going and everybody cheered him on to the very end. Its moments like these, where sport gets recognised for mateship, and we forget all about the competition, because that person gave it their all. Sport is doing your very best. How well you go is not important.

My favourite sporting moment is Australia's win over Qatar at Suncorp. The storms that passed over Brisbane that night would have helped Australia's chances, but the match was a great spectacle nevertheless. Now, if Queensland Roar can win at Suncorp, that would give me another great sporting moment.

Cathy Freeman won Olympic Gold in the Womens 400m race at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.

My all time favorite sporting moment was on the 25 September 1983, a day that will never be forgotten, the day Australia II won the America's Cup after one hundred and thirty two years of the American's having a stranglehold on the cup. We were the first nation ever to take the cup off the Americans, it was the day our Prime Minister Bob Hawke wore THAT jacket and declared bosses to be bums if they stopped people from taking the day off. There was an incredible jubilation in the streets, our nations pride was on full display. It was a day to be forever remembered.

I would have to say Makybe Diva making history by winning her 3rd Melbourne Cup. She is a beautiful horse and is just as good as Pharlap (though nothing will ever replace Pharlap) I feel privileged to have witnessed Makybes great feat!