Yeah, Melbourne Park Oval is more likely to make me think of Grand Slam Oval, and Olympic Park is more likely to point to the AIA Centre Olympic Park Oval next to AAMI Park.
Swimming Australia has sacked Michael Palfrey for his comments to South Korean media that he hoped Kim Woo-min - who he was also working with - would beat Australia’s Elijah Winnington and Sam Short in the men’s 400m freestyle. Germany’s Lukas Märtens took out the gold medal in the event, with Winnington claiming silver ahead of Kim, who won bronze.
Unfortunately some of our biggest stars and medallists won’t be attending as they are back overseas competing.
I booked to go up to Sydney as I want to meet the Fox sisters but Jess Fox announced via her instagram story that both Noemie and herself won’t be attending as they are back in Europe. Very disappointed. I get why the governments have waited until the Paralympics had concluded but this means it is over a month since the conclusion of the Olympics and despite some of the athletes returning home, they have how returned overseas to continue completing.
Hopefully one day I can meet them. Being a Melbournian, it is hard as the sisters are Western Sydney based and don’t really do meet and greets in Victoria. They have done two meet and greet events (an appearance at Red Bull Coogee and then a lunch) but both were Sydney events. I know that the ladies have said they look forward to sharing their successes with the communities so hoping there is an opportunity that I can meet them one day
Despite those displays, which resulted in her failing to register a single point, the World DanceSport Federation released the latest rankings which had the Aussie sitting atop the list.
Raygun was catapulted into the world number one ranking thanks to the 1000 points she claimed for winning the WDSF Oceania Championship which booked her a spot in the Olympics.
That’s the risk they’ve sadly taken this year - obviously they wanted to wait for the Paralympics to be over, have joint event, save costs etc, but many athletes don’t just train for the Olympics - they compete at events right around the world throughout the year.
Also many would’ve had post Olympic holidays booked.
The 29-year-old will not be allowed to play in any Hockey Australia-sanctioned competition, including the domestic Hockey One league season, where he had played for New South Wales Pride, and the international Pro League.
Hockey Australia said in a statement that six months of the ban will be served fully, with six months suspended “contingent upon meeting conduct and behavioural requirements”.
I was at today’s celebration in Sydney. Really lacking star power. No gold medalists at all. Quite a let down to be honest. I travelled up from Melbourne and wish I didn’t. This is what happens when they have such a large gap from the Games to the celebration!
I assume Brisbane may have some quality athletes though especially with the amount of swimming stars based in Brisbane. I won’t be able to make it up there unfortunately.
This afternoon I was at the Forrest Place, Perth where I met some of the Western Australian Olympic and Paralympic athletes. It is great to see Perth put on a great show at the welcome home celebrations in the city. Australia, you have put on a great show at the Paris 2024 Games, winning 18 gold medals, its best ever performance at the Olympics.
I hope that the Australian medallist’s will take part in the Motorcade at the 2024 AFL Grand Final in 2 weeks time.
Tom Cruise had two conditions for his participation in the Olympic Games closing ceremony: that he got to do everything himself in the epic secret stunt, and that he took part for free.
