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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…
There's been numerous negative stories in the lead up to the London Olympics – from weightlifters allegedly holding their team to ransom, swimmers posing…
The movie 'Moneyball', starring Brad Pitt and co-written by Aaron Sorkin, deals with Oakland Athletic's General Manager Billy Beane's challenge to overcome his team's…
By the time the 2015 cricket World Cup is played, it will have been 23 years since a major cricketing tournament has been held…
Yup Campo’s pass to Lynagh in the dying moments at Lansdowne Road in the quarter-finals against Ireland was one of the highlights during the tournament.
Larkham’s drop goal against South Africa in the 1999 semi-final another rugby world cup highlight.
Australia’s ten most inspirational sporting moments
Golf is too much a niche sport. We’re not all rich, white middle aged men.
Australia’s ten most inspirational sporting moments
ESPN’s 30 for 30 has a lot of excellent sports documentaries. Once Brothers about Yugoslav basketballers Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic and their falling out and the breaking apart of Yugoslavia is very good.
The episode about the 1988 100m athletics final is pretty good too.
My ten greatest sporting documentaries
Fail list. Hoop Dreams is not on the list. Its just a fact that its the best sports documentary ever.
My ten greatest sporting documentaries
You can point out tactical blunders by New Zealand but I wonder how much of New Zealand’s failure was mental.
Just like in rugby where the Wallabies have not just a skill and ability deficit against the All Blacks but a massive mental problem. I think the same with New Zealand in cricket.
New Zealand has won, what, 1 test match against Australia in how many years? And that test match was a nothing test match where Australia had already retained the Trans-Tasman trophy the test before and New Zealand couldnt win the series
Black Caps' tactics exposed on Aussie soil
yeah! Lets get rid of line-outs and reduce the amount of players to 13 and had a 6 tackle counter to the game.
Too right Richie! World Rugby need to get a grip on time-sucking scrums
Queensland isn’t broke. Its nonsense to say any state government is “broke”.
It doesnt have to be a 80,000 seat stadium, Rio had a 60,000 seat stadium. Or they could what they did in stadium and have temporary stadiums and then reduce the capacity after the games to 60,000
And the Brisbane Cricket Ground will need to be upgraded in the years to come regardless if Brisbane get the Olympics or not. A 35,000 capacity stadium (for Cricket, 37,000 for AFL) isn’t going to cut it for a city that will hit 3 million in the near future.
Only football, golf and tennis have bigger events outside of the Olympics. In the case of tennis the Olympics are still highly prized by players, up there with the 4 slams and the ATP Tour Finals. Plus tennis is always a well attended event at the Olympics. As for golf I don’t know, its too recently added but 2016 had some big names. I’m sure at Tokyo golf will be stronger.
Even though Olympic football is an under 23 event it still gets good crowds and attendance.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
The 3 most populated countries in the world care more about the Olympics than FIFA world cup. China, India and most importantly America. Look at what NBC paid to show Olympics compared to whoever shows world cup in USA.
So what if African and South American countries care more about the world cup?
Even if the Olympics are behind soccer in Europe the Olympics are still huge there.
Plus only 32 countries play in the world cup where as virtually every country on earth competes in the summer Olympics
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3218.0
ABS stats show Brisbane population of 2.5 million. Brisbane roughly adds 50, 000 people a year meaning a population of 3 million in 2032 is extremely likely.
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1011660/london-2012-ticket-sales-record-set-to-leave-politicians-unimpressed
11 million of the 11.3 million tickets were sold for London generating almost $1.3 billion AUD.
Gold Coast population in 2019 is around 670,000. By 2032 it will be close to 1 million giving Brisbane + Gold Coast a total population of 4 million.
My facts are very much correct.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
Complete nonsense. Greece’s problems are not the result of the Olympics.
London didn’t have “empty stadiums”. Quite the opposite.
As for the world cup we’re not getting that until 2046 at the absolute earliest.
As for the costs, read the article, a lot of the facilities are already built. Redevelopment of Brisbane Cricket Ground (‘Gabba) is due in the not too distant future regardless.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
Wrong. Number 6 should be number 1
Ten classic Australia versus New Zealand Test moments
I think this is great news. Under the current IOC rules Brisbane is the only Australia city capable of hosting the summer Olympics.
The IOC has made the bidding process easier and cheaper and are more flexible with hosting requirements. Considering Australia will not get a FIFA world cup before 2046 at the earliest (next world cup in Asia is 100% guaranteed to go to China) the Olympics is realistic target.
Will be interesting to see where the IOC go. Selecting Paris and LA for 2024 and 2028 was the safe decision after the financial problems of Rio. I don’t know if the IOC will be willing to risk an Olympics in India despite the financial gains for the taking.
Madrid doesn’t quite have much of the infrastructure built but the last time Spain hosted an Olympics was before Australia.
Singapore is an interesting bid. Singapore is a developed city/country in a developing region. That means the IOC gets the opportunity to have a summer Olympics in a developing region that hasn’t had it before but without the risks of having it hosted in a developing country. If Singapore can show they can have the infrastructure and ability to easily and economically host the Olympics they might be hard to beat.
Germany’s Rhine-Ruhr region could also be tough considering so much of the infrastructure and facilities are already built. Plus Germany hasn’t hosted an Olympic games since Munich 1972. I think the biggest obstacle for the Rhine-Ruhr region would be that Paris would have hosted in 2024 and London 2012 and the IOC might want to avoid having too many Olympics in one region. Between 1976-2002 North America had 6 Olympics (3 winter, 3 summer) and especially against America there was a backlash in the Olympic community.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
Giving tens of billions of dollars in tax cuts to the rich and corporations is a waste of money. The Olympics are not.
Many cities have benefited from hosting the Olympics. Sydney, LA, London, Barcelona, Seoul. The IOC tried to take the Olympics to developing countries and Rio was a mistake. As for Russia and the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics a lot of that was bankrolled by Putin’s oligarchs and Putin’s vanity.
Athens 2004 turned out to be a much better Olympics than people say but again it was the wrong city to host and was picked for nostalgic “feel good” reasons.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
We can easily afford to host the Olympics. If we can afford to give massive tax cuts to the 1% and big corporations we can easily afford to host the Olympics.
Brisbane 2.5 million people and the Gold Coast close to a million. Thats in 2019. By 2032 Brisbane will have over 3 millions and the Gold Coast well over 1 million bringing the total to almost 4.5 million.
Getting your facts right helps.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
The IOC is more flexible on this issue nowadays to reduce costs of the host.
Queensland confirm Olympic bid for 2032
Surely someone will break thought. Federer hasn’t won a slam in 2 years and I dont think its in him for another.
Nadal turns 34 in June 2020 and I dont think his body can last much longer.
Novak is only 33 in May so he’s going to be around for awhile longer.
But if the younger players can start winning Masters 1000 tournaments and push Novak and Rafa off the top of the rankings then they will have the top seeds going into the slams allowing them for easier runs to the semis. From there the impossible might and the big 3 lose.
Why Roger Federer's "Lost Generation" is about to find Slam success in 2020
Ever occur to you that the hacks at News Corp papers are liars and frauds?
99% of what the scum at Murdoch papers say are lies.
Why everyone got it wrong about Rugby Australia and Israel Folau
Its because like in everything else Australia is stubborn, slow and to be honest, stupid. Coaching staff and admin should have the data that the SCG is no “spinners” paradise.
Even the AFL and NRL have adopted data analytics. Cricket in Australia seems to be stuck in the Warne/Waugh era.
Cricket has always been a sport that has put myth before reality but I’ve been commenting about how the SCG is not a spinner’s pitch for years now.
Australia sucked in by myth of spin friendly SCG
Stop listening to Alex Jones. Next you’ll be raving that Bill Shorten ran a sex ring out of a pizzeria in Canberra.
Israel Folau attempts to clarify bushfire comments
At least you haven’t gone full Andrew Bolt. Never go full Andrew Bolt.
But I get the impression you’re the sort of person that goes his info from Alan Jones and the Daily Telegraph.
Israel Folau attempts to clarify bushfire comments
We all heard those rumours. Unfortunately with Pim’s death I doubt any players from that team will put it on the record.
Pim Verbeek deserves a place in the pantheon of Socceroos greats
Verbeek was terribly maligned as Australian manager. Not to say some of the criticism of Pim wasn’t warranted – his complete disregard of the A-League smacked of European, old world football elitism. As for that match against Germany, I remember looking at the line-up before the game and thinking “WTF is Verbeek doing???”
I think Verbeek biggest flaw was that he seemed to regard the big European countries unbeatable and footballing countries like Australia just too inferior to compete. His A-League views tie into this mindset.
Unfortunately Verbeek was never the guy that was going to lift Australia. He was great at getting Australia through the 2010 qualifying, our first in Asia. Theres no superpower European or South American nations in Asian qualifying so Verbeek was great getting us the wins.
But Verbeek received just not fair criticisms but nasty personal attacks from jingoistic and obnoxious Aussie football fans.
Pim Verbeek deserves a place in the pantheon of Socceroos greats
If Cooper actually cared about rugby he would have learned to tackle.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika resigns after quarter-final loss
Yawn. Blame the top when the fact is the players aren’t good enough.
Sport is rapidly declining in Australia especially with boys and rugby has been hit the hardest.
But hey, change one administrator and magically the players will become more talented.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika resigns after quarter-final loss
#5 and people thinking that is it a great moment baffles me and symbolises everything wrong with Australia’s attitude to sport.
Perkins 1996 gold medal winning time of 14:56.40 was well below his PB and world record of 14:41.66 from the 1994 Commonwealth Games or his 14:43.48 at the 1992 Olympics where he got the gold and world record.
Perkins came in underprepared and the 1996 1500m freestyle field was weak. He wasn’t at his best compared to 1992 Olympics or 1994 Commonwealth games. His silver medal time in Sydney 2000 was 3 seconds quicker.
Why do glorify the 1996 win which was inferior to his 1992 gold medal win? Why do Australians celebrate mediocrity over better accomplishments? I’m glad Perkins got the gold but this was far from his best race. Just because he barely qualified doesn’t make the win any more impressive. Just means Perkins didn’t put the work in before the Olympics and thats hardly a thing to celebrate.
Australia’s ten most inspirational sporting moments