Competition has ended, and so I find myself able to set my own schedule. This may sound like a normal human enterprise, but for an athlete who has known what he has had to do every morning for the last…
- Olympic rower and student, Australian National University
Since racing in the Olympic final, the notion that, “it’s not if you win or lose, but how you played the game” has taken on a new dimension. I thought that this phrase was simply an injunction against…
Having been in the Rowing Village at Royal Holloway since Sunday, I have begun to settle in to a new/old routine. It’s new in the sense that all the facilities are shiny and new, and that the moment of…
A heady day of excitement here for the Australian Rowing Team. We got up reasonably early this morning, bid farewell to the European Training Centre, and boarded coaches for the Milan airport. After one…
I was reading through the Olympic posts on The Conversation when I came across Brian Stoddart’s critique of public funding of sport. Being a recipient of some of the funding that Mr Stoddart would seek…
I really enjoyed reading Simon Outram’s balanced, realistic assessment of the impact on legalised doping in sport. And, if the health impacts of it were possible to avoid, then I’m sure that the usage…
I’m generally not too fussed about packing. Most of my packing is done haphazardly the morning of my flight, or the night before in the most extreme cases, with clothes tossed semi-folded or wrinkled into…
As we come to the end of our Olympic preparation camp at the AIS European Training Center in Varese, Italy, I find myself thinking about the meaning of what we do here. Sport occupies a unique place in…
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