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Tag: Athletics

Newly dedicated: Hana Basic is Tokyo bound

By Linda Pearce   Posted in Olympic Games
Posted on June 22, 2021June 20, 2021

Green and gold with an undertow of blue and yellow. Sprinter Hana Basic will represent Australia, with her Bosnian heritage not too far from thought. A stroll around the Collingwood athletics track last summer with her coach John Nicolosi helped to give national sprint champion Hana Basic an idea of where she was going. A …

History makers: Daphne Hilton, a trailblazer and a lasting legacy

By Kirby Fenwick   Posted in Historical Paralympics
Posted on May 5, 2020January 17, 2021
Daphne Hilton, 1964.

Australia won ten medals at the 1960 Rome Paralympics. Six of those medals belong to one of the most successful Australian athletes of all time. In this trip down memory lane, Siren brings you the story of Daphne Hilton.  You name it, I played it Daphne Hilton was born in the New South Wales town …

My Favourite Sporting Moment

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in Historical Olympic Games
Posted on April 21, 2020January 17, 2021
Cathy Freeman after winning gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect and reminisce about my favourite sporting moments.  I think mine would have to be when the Matildas won the World Cup and Lydia Williams invited me to celebrate with the team in the rooms afterwards… then I remembered that that …

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