Siren’s new Deakin intern Georgia Dunne dips her toe in the water with our My Favourite Sporting Moment series, another moment from the 2016 Olympics. At the age of 15, I had been swimming for nearly my whole life, and had been competing since I was about nine. Needless to say, swimming was ingrained in …
With the twelve month postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Siren co-founder Alison Smirnoff was keen to find out what impact this was having on Olympic athletes. She sat down with Australian water polo captain, Rowie Webster, via Zoom and discussed the challenges of preparing for an Olympic Games …
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 …
We’re all treating being in lock-down differently. Some of us are baking bread, some of us are trawling the internet for tips to keep the kids entertained. Some of us are watching Tiger King. But I’ve spent this period of isolation so far in Mildura in the north-west of Victoria at my parent’s house, taking …
The Australian women’s football team, the Matildas, kick off the final stage of their Olympic Qualifying tonight. The tournament, due to be played in Wuhan, China was rescheduled in Campbelltown west of Sydney after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Despite the disruption to their schedule, Matildas defender Clare Polkinghorne says, “we’re ready.” “We always love …