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What cost glory? Spotlight again falls on Australia s Olympic funding models

What cost glory? Spotlight again falls on Australia’s Olympic funding models Kieran Pender © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Medals cost money. This is the cold financial truth at the heart of sporting success: glory is not cheap. While it may take a leap of imagination to go from the voluminous budget papers released on Tuesday to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, they are intimately linked. Buried deep in the health portfolio budget statements is the funding that Australia’s sport administrators hope will propel our athletes to gold in Tokyo and beyond. The ambition is plainly stated in the document, standing out for its emotive language among the dense accounting tables: “The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) will strive to deliver national pride and inspiration through international sporting success.”

Heading to the Beach This Summer? Take Your Runs to the Sand for Extra Benefits

Heading to the Beach This Summer? Take Your Runs to the Sand for Extra Benefits Samantha Lefave, Lisa Jhung When Kyra Oliver heads out for her morning run, she usually opts for a paved route. But once or twice a week, the San Diegan heads toward the beach instead, where she watches the sun rise and listens to the waves crash as the miles tick by. Running on the sand helps Oliver clear her mind, but it also supplements her training for marathons and 50-mile trail races. “It works different muscles and requires a different focus for me,” Oliver tells

Saxby s barrier-breaking 20km paved the way for female race walkers

Australian race walker Kerry Saxby (© Getty Images) Breaking the four-minute mile was the classic athletics landmark until Roger Bannister did it on a windy Oxford track in May 1954. A lesser-known target was 1:30:00 for women in the 20km race walk. The honour went to Kerry Saxby, who plunged into unchartered water 34 years after Bannister on 13 May 1988. And she did it almost by accident. In fact, the Australian’s 1:29:40 in the small southern Swedish town of Varnamo was little more than an endurance spin rather than a concerted effort to notch a world record. She even raced the Swedish Championships 10km the day before and won in 44:15. So, the mixed race around a lake was something of a warm down for an athlete who was on fire at the time.

44 years in ministry – a quiet Australian

Tweed Heads Mark and Delma Tronson’s relocated to Tweed Heads in December 2005 – as Chairman of Well-Being Australia. He coordinated respite for the AIS SE Qld Sport Units athletes with the Domain Resort at Cabarita, Tweed Coast. Dr Mark Tronson bought the young writer ministry into fruition in 2008 in conjunction with Christian Today – an online international daily Christian News and Comment. Today there are 110 young people (18-30) who write a monthly Comment column from Australia, New Zealand and Internationals. He was the Australian Olympic Chaplain in 1984 and subsequently appointed the Olympic chaplains and in 2000 IOC Vice President Kevan Gosper AC sent Dr Tronson to the IOC in Lausanne Switzerland to assist staff develop the Transfer of Knowledge of Religious Services for Olympic Host Cities.

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