Shayna Jack the first Aussie doper to get an honour?
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Giving OAMs to Olympic gold medalists feels a bit naff
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Doubt it
Especially for skateboarding
Keegan Palmer did win back-to-back golds
More so on the 14 year old tbh
The green-and-gold Olympic uniform shirt, pictured with Raygun’s signature scrawled across the front, sold for a whopping $1860.
Other athlete-issue Asics items for resale on the global website are listed for about $200 a pop, including T-shirts, bags, caps, and water bottles once worn by Australian athletes competing in Paris in 2024.
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Former federal sports minister Mark Arbib has been appointed as the Australian Olympic Committee’s new chief executive.
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The LA28 schedule includes the Olympic debuts of the 50m backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly for both men and women, and a mixed 4x100m relay on the track.
The additions are part of a broader push by the IOC to modernize the Olympics and attract new audiences. LA28 will feature 22 more medal events than Paris 2024, while maintaining a total athlete quota of 10,500 across 31 sports.
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The LA28 organising committee has released the competition schedule, three years from the opening ceremony.
The T20 cricket competition begins on July 12. All matches will be played at a temporary venue at Fairplex in Pomona, 50km east of Los Angeles.
https://www.olympics.com/en/news/cricket-olympics-la-2028-dates-medal-matches
The Fox sisters may not be able to participate in the Opening Ceremony with canoe slalom to take place on Day 0
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Given they are competing in Oklahoma City, I would call that a certainty.
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The Opening Ceremony will take place at 5PM PT which will be 10:00AM AEST a mid-morning/early afternoon affair for Australians
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Aussie Olympians of the 1980 Moscow Games to receive historic gesture
Nearly half a century later than it should have happened, the Australian team that defied calls for a boycott and competed at the politically-charged 1980 Moscow Olympics will finally be welcomed home.
Shortly after lunch on July 30, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a statement to the federal parliament, belatedly acknowledging the 121 Australian athletes as well their coaches and team officials, who went to Moscow in defiance of the government’s demands to join the United States-led protest at the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
As part of his speech, the Prime Minister will also welcome the team back to the country, a symbolic but poignant gesture that most of the participants thought would never happen after they got caught up in a political firestorm that altered the course of their lives and still deeply impacts them to this day.
None of the team — 96 men and 25 women — that went to Moscow, have been properly acknowledged, until now.
This ceremony in Canberra will take place at the same time the Moscow Games were being held 45 years ago.
