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Almanac Olympics: Winter Olympic Boycott

The Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing are shaping up as a political, diplomatic challenge suggests Glen!

Almanac Olympics: Still a long road to medal justice

The fight goes on – with new light at the end of the tunnel – for Olympic doping victims, writes Ron Reed.

Almanac Olympics: Brisbane best bet to go into bat

Ron Reed looks ahead to assess the chances of netball and cricket winning status as Olympic sports – and wishes them both all the luck they can get!

Almanac Olympics: Brazil retain the gold medal in Tokyo

Brazil scored the gold medal in their match against Spain in the Men’s Football Final at the Tokyo Olympics reports Roy Hay.

Almanac Olympics: First Olympian almost a hero

Edwin Flack is a name familiar to many for his exploits at the re-birth of the Olympic Games some 125 years ago. Harold Peacock has uncovered another who might well have left Flack in the shade on the track, but achieved great deeds elsewhere… [This is well worth a read – Ed.]

Almanac Olympics – Tokyo 2020: Thoughts From the Couch

Edward P. Olsen runs through a laundry list of the recently wound up Tokyo Olympics’ best and most entertaining moments for a family watching on from an Australian couch.

Almanac Olympics: Boomers – Mills, a hero cast in bronze

Respected journalist Ron Reed continues his magnificent informative reports of events from the Tokyo Olympics. This report focuses upon the efforts of the bronze winning Boomers particularly the integral role played by Patty Mills for the team.

Almanac Olympics – Soccer: Gold medal settled on penalties as Canada wins and Trump fumes

Roy Hay continues his excellent coverage of events from the Tokyo Olympics, today the women’s soccer.

Almanac Olympics – Soccer: Matildas’ fighting finish comes up short

The Matildas trailed for much of their bronze medal play-off game against the United States but never chucked it in. Roy Hay reports.

Almanac Olympics – Track and Field: Why history said it was a big ask for Bol

Ron Reed looks back over Olympic Games history to put into context the achievements of Australia’s latest sporting sensation, Peter Bol.

Almanac Olympics – Boxing: Hit-man Harry making rare history

Harry Garside boxed his way to a guaranteed medal on Tuesday night, becoming the first Australian boxer to medal at the Olympics since 1988. Ron Reed shares his insights.

Almanac Olympics – Soccer: Australia has another chance of a medal, but Sweden is bound for the final

Roy Hay continues his reports of the Matildas’ games during the Olympics, this time they came up short in their match against Sweden.

Almanac Olympics – Getting on your bike with new tricks

Who could have predicted the heroics of Logan Martin in Sydney 2000? Even the thought of seeing freestyle BMX, surfing and skateboarding at the Olympics would have been ridiculous not so long ago. Ron Reed is a fan of rejuvenation at the world’s biggest multi-sport event and offers his thoughts on the Games’ ever changing roster of disciplines.

Almanac Olympics – Soccer: Sometimes you just have to admit you were wrong

Roy Hay is fessing up to a premature call after the Matildas and Great Britain played an absolute thriller in the quarter final of the Olympic tournament. [Well played Roy – JTH]

Almanac Olympics – Rowing: The sport with an oarsome history

Australia has a glittering history within the sport of rowing at the Olympics – Tokyo too has proved to be bountiful. Ron Reed drinks in the success, and recounts his memories of the Oarsome Foursome. (Fantastic insight – Eds).

Almanac Olympics – Soccer: Shades of ’82: cynicism and the world game

On Tuesday night in the Tokyo Olympics’ women’s soccer competition, The Matildas and the United States played out a dull draw. Roy Hay critiques the coaching of the game and the contribution such matches make to sport.

Almanac Olympics: Shame, Queensland

Andrew Starkie expresses his thoughts, in no uncertain terms, about Queensland winning the right to host the 2032 Olympics Games.

Almanac Olympics: Polishing Tarnished Ideals (an extract from the Griffith Review 53 – Our Sporting Life)

In this essay, extracted from The Griffith Review 53 – Our Sporting Life, John Harms remembers two wonderful months immersed in the theory and practice of Olympism at the little-known International Olympic Academy, at Ancient Olympia, in Greece.

Almanac Olympics: Sayonara Rio

The carnival is over. And as the Olympics ends, Tony Robb gives his review of the Rio games.

Almanac Olympics: Saudade

John Harms caught some of the closing ceremony from Rio this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see the reference to saudade.