Rabbit in the Vineyard – 33 Olympic Moments: Gold

September 19, 2024 by 2 Comments

 

 

 

The Games of the 33rd Olympiad were a welcome distraction for RITV during a dismal 2024 NRL season for South Sydney.

 

RITV kept notes, and here is the first list:


33 GOLDEN moments (in no particular order):

 

1. Gabby Thomas (United States): 3 of them – 200m, 4 x 100m, 4 x 400m
2. Canadian men’s 4x100m relay, prompting the great Carl Lewis to call for the ‘whole (United States) system to be blown up’
3. Letsile Tebago – Botswana, 200m
4. Julien Alfred – Saint Lucia, 100m
5. Simone Biles – what a comeback!
6. St Peters Western Swimming Club (that’s in Queensland!) – 4 gold (+ 5 silver, 2 bronze)
7. Cam McEvoy – doing it his way!
8. Leon Marchant – the French swimming hero
9. Hamish Kerr – New Zealand – men’s high jump
10. Saya Sahakibara – BMX
11. New Zealand – 10 gold medals
12. Jess Fox
13. Noemie Fox
14. Mollie O’Callahan – St Peters Western
15. Yaroslava Mahachikh – Ukraine – high jump
16. Quincy Hall -men’s 400m: “I have a big engine, I used to run cross country”
17. Grace Brown – cycling time trial
18. Ariarne Titmus – St Peters Western
19. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone – women’s 400m hurdles. CLASS!
20. France – men’s rugby 7s – big atmosphere in main stadium.
21. Michael Bohl (Dean Boxall’s mentor at St Peters Western) – swimmers won 4 gold medals
22. Australia women’s 4x200m freestyle relay (St Peters Western)
23. Netherlands 4x400m relay – Femke Bol was incredible!
24. Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle relay
25. Keely Hodgkinson | Great Britian – 800m – can she break the ‘dirty’ world record?
26. Modern Pentathlon: a wonderful Olympic tradition: gold to Egypt (men’s) and Hungary (women’s)
27. Tennis – Men’s tennis: Novak Djokovic
28. Tennis Men’s doubles – AUSTRALIA: Ebden and Peters
29. Football men’s -Spain
30. Football women’s – U.S.
31. Olympic golf gold – Scottie Scheffler
32. Olympic golf gold – Lydia Ko (NZ)
33. 3×3 Basketball gold -Netherlands & Germany

 

 

Next week: 33 moments (other/not gold)

 


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About Russel Hansen

Russel Hansen Has worked in schools for over thirty years – as a teacher, coach, coach educator, sports coordinator and in pastoral care roles. Whilst at Brisbane Boys’ College as Director of Athletics, he led teams to six GPS premierships in track and field, and cross country. He has coached (athletics) at all levels from school to international. His squad at the University of Queensland (to January 2023) included Lachlan Kennedy OLY, Paris 4x100m relay runner, Australian record holder. He is married to Heidi, a Primary school principal, and is father to two adult daughters. Twitter: @Russel_Hansen

Comments

  1. Rodney Boyd says
    September 19, 2024 at 5:23 pm

    Good work Russell

    I know you had Grace Brown at Number 17 but seeing your Number 6 (amazing effort), I would add Camperdown in South West Victoria winning 1 Gold with Grace Brown and 1 Bronze with Penny Smith

    The other one I like is Woman’s Marathon Hasan victory, amazing race with 5 in leading group with 2km to go, 3 with 1km to go and Hasan outsprinting the last couple hundred metres. Great effort considering she also won bronze in 5000m and 10000m

  2. Russel Hansen says
    September 23, 2024 at 9:54 pm

    Thanks for posting your insights, Rodney – amazing for Camperdown, SW Victoria, indeed!

    & could not agree more with your comments about Hassan in the marathon! what a finish!

    entries: 27-33: I added more for comment/debate: eg: do tennis fans rate the Olympics? ditto golf, football, and 3 on 3 basketball?! really?!

    thanks again

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