Gold medal

Fitting Win For Fiji – A Lesson in Humility

Fiji have finally won an Olympic Gold medal and there are few who didn’t celebrate their victory. It took the IOC’s introduction of Rugby Sevens to the Olympic Games to give the pacific island nation their most realistic chance of

The Hungry Games – Kate Starre

Here is the second episode of our series on Western Australian Olympians filmed in coffee shops, bars and restaurants around Perth and Fremantle. In this episode we catch up with double gold medalist with the Hockeyroos, Kate Starre. We sat

Australia’s Hockey Grail – On Sale

Every four years the Kookaburras head off to the Olympic Games expected to return with a gold medal. The expectation is possibly warranted as they have been ranked in the top four men’s hockey teams in the world for the

More than a Numbers Game

Pakistan has never been a powerhouse Olympic nation. It has won just ten Olympic medals since first competing at the 1948 Games in London. Pakistan’s first medal came in field hockey at the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956 when it

Lessons Not Learned

Why is it that some administrators continue to make rods for their own backs? A year ago Basketball Australia went against its own Governance processes and changed the National Wheelchair Basketeball League competition to a seven team competition and re-issued