“We had tough times when I wanted to quit as I wasn’t coping with external pressures. But Mum made me refocus on why I was doing it.”
Hugh Millikin was half-a-point away from becoming Australia’s first curling Olympian. In 2010,20 years of practice came down to a matter of centimetres when Australia was last within grasp of an Olympic berth.
A towering series of purpose-built jumps in Brisbane provided athletes with a warm-weather training hub to hone their skills or return from injury in the build-up to Beijing.
Giant leaps,death-defying speeds,brutal courses and insane skills:These are the sports you need to be watching at the Winter Olympics.
The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago has launched a locked-down Winter Olympics.
Britt Cox made her Olympic debut at 15 and now has the back of a 40-year-old. The four-time Olympian has spent more than a decade punishing her knees flying down mountains,flipping off ramps,and wearing the hit of every mogul like it was her last.
Beijing’s opening ceremony,which starts at 11pm tonight,gives President Xi Jinping his best chance to use the Games to burnish his country’s image.
The ice has been polished,the slopes have been ploughed and thousands of athletes are descending on Beijing. From China’s freestyle skier Eileen Gu to Australia’s Bree Walker in the “monobob”,here are 10 top athletes to watch.
Australian skier Jakara Anthony nailed a 720-degree rotation en route to the women’s freestyle moguls final on Sunday.
Peel is a two-time world champion at her third Olympic Games. Kerry,also at his third Games,has won the Australian championship eight times.
The Beijing Winter Olympics which open on Friday evening will produce some incredible sporting moments,but they risk being overshadowed by international political tension.