The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian sport has called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away from elite Olympic sports toward grassroots participation.
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Ben Cousins given the Haneef treatment
Ben Cousins’ year of living dangerously has reached its seemingly inevitable conclusion with the AFL commission banning The Brownlow Medalist from the competition for a year, writes Francis Leach.
Our athletes suck. Good thing they don’t sing
Did not qualify. Last. Sixth. Did not qualify. Did not qualify. Last. Fifteenth. More than $580,000 was spent specifically for the lead up to the Osaka meet which was to allow “medal-potential athletes” to prepare. It’s no wonder the SBS commentary team was totally lost for words.
