Everywhere you look in Paris there are the green and gold uniforms of Australian athletes. Australia is represented in nearly every sport with the exception of fencing and handball. Overall Australia is fielding more competitors than any country except the hosts France and the behemoth that is the United States.
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Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter Those words – in Latin – don’t really get around much in common conversation these days. But for two weeks every two years they tend to take a bit more prominence. They might resonate a little more in English these days. Faster, higher, stronger –
Continue reading »Reports have come back from Paris breathlessly about what the Olympics is lacking. The accommodation is substandard. The food isn’t up to scratch and unsuitable for athletes. It’s hard to get around, and the city is too distracting. Paris sounds like a good idea on paper, but in practice it
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While it’s fair to say recent decades have seen a fairly stable core of Olympic sports, a surprising number of now mainstay sports were pre-figured by related games which in a slightly different world could have come to be the canon, default version of those games. Whether as fully competitive
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HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. The Olympics has a way of finding early stars that shape the nature of the Games. Usually it’s an athlete with a breakthrough performance, or a moment of light relief taking away
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HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. Australian sports fans woke up to slightly unexpected news this Sunday morning. There were hopes that Australia would do well early in Paris, but leading the medal tally after day 1 was
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HPN will be covering the 2024 Paris Olympics, with something coming here every day before or during competition. It’s over before it starts Getting to the Olympics – and competing – is often the realization of a life’s worth of hard work. But what if an Olympic appearance is essentially
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Consensuses are often tough things to swing. There’s usually a few flies in the ointment that prevent a strong decision one way or another – free radicals acting against the tide. HPN has been tracking draft prospects through the thoughts of others for a decade now, trying to follow where
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Jacob Koschitzke to Richmond Jacob Koschitzke has played 48 games since breaking into a rebuilding Hawthorn side. In 2023 he found himself edged out of the best 22 by Mitch Lewis and Fergus Greene, playing 12 senior games and 13 at VFL level and usually only getting games when one
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Jordon Sweet to Port Adelaide Each year there’s a ruck merry-go-round where clubs switch options to fill the precious position. Jordon Sweet has played 11 games for the Dogs in three years including zero this season. But Sweet did star in the VFL in 2023, leading the league for hitouts
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