Tracey Holmes
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The Sports Ambassador: politics, governance, business of sport podcast. Journalist. Professorial Fellow, Sport @UniCanberra . Don’t confuse noise for substance.
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First Nations people issued a letter to all Australians, called ‘statement from the heart’. They asked to be recognised in the constitution. In a national vote the people of Australia overwhelmingly rejected them.
#TheVoice
For those who never bothered reading it before voting,…
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Cannot help thinking that if
#BarnabyJoyce
was an
#NRL
footballer he would have been found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute and been suspended, not to mention wall to wall media coverage.
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A quick thought: To those who continue to misrepresent trans women athletes as ‘cheaters’, they are not; they compete within the stringent rules in place. If you don’t like the rules, argue that, don’t target women who are already marginalised.
#auspol
#transgender
#womeninsport
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Ok. So, to say I am surprised is an understatement. When I got the email that I had been selected to run with the Torch for the
#Paris2024
#Olympics
, I emailed back and said that they had sent the message to the wrong person. But they informed me they hadn't. So here I am.…
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Former
#socceroos
captain, now chair of
@AusRepublic
with message to journos…if you haven’t read the document how can you hold politicians - or anyone - to account? Was referencing
#TheVoice
but pertinent to any topic.
#qanda
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In a country that appears to so overwhelmingly not like
#djokovic
, the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to cancel his visa fearing the influence he ‘may have’.
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Paris 2024 beckons. It will be my 14th Olympic Games as a journalist/reporter/broadcaster. This coming Olympics though, it will not be for the ABC since I have resigned and will finish on November 30.
Thanks to colleagues, listeners, viewers, readers, critics and most…
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So disappointing that another hugely talented, experienced journalist,
@NourHaydar
, leaves the ABC with ‘clarity’. The exits, the loss of journalists from minorities and
#FirstNations
, and the treatment of those who remain compared to the treatment of others requires an…
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"For years I've been a media target for racism and paid a heavy price. For now, I want no part of it – I'm walking away" via
@ABCaustralia
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Note to the kids, if you do wrong man-up like this bloke, accept the responsibility, and don’t blame others. First step to redemption.
@stevesmith49
showing how it’s done
#cricketcrisis
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Hello
@ICC
, here is a link to the meaning of ‘humanitarian’
…and here a link to the meaning of ‘political’
@Uz_Khawaja
’s message is humanitarian. Your decision to allow the Afghanistan men’s team to continue playing while not…
All Lives are Equal. Freedom is a Human right. I'm raising my voice for human rights. For a humanitarian appeal. If you see it any other way. That's on you...
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More than 20
#sports
in Australia have come together to support the Indigenous
#VoiceToParliament
. Former captain, now coach, of the Australian
#Kangaroos
national
#rugbyleague
team, (and one time political hopeful) Mal Meninga told
@abcnews
why it's a natural fit for sport.
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If at any stage you need to stop reading this story, please do. If you continue through ask yourself - how does this happen? Who allows it happen? Who can stop it?
#Hawthorn
#AFL
#racism
review
#indigenous
#playerwelfare
.
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‘No evidence’ found in Israel’s dossier that claimed
#UNRWA
was infiltrated by
#Hamas
, according to this report from
@Channel4News
. Australia and others cancelled funding of
#humanitarian
aid based on the allegations. Plenty of headline stories when allegations made, not so many…
Israel’s evidence of UNRWA Hamas allegations examined
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“On Sunday, it was left to Khawaja, the first Pakistani-born cricketer to play for Australia, to remind members of the world’s most famous and influential cricket club how grown men should behave.” - always worth reading
@Melbchief
#Khawaja
#lords
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Just like in
#Qatar2022
, the
#Morocco
team at the
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
is making history: they have done the unbelievable in moving through to the last 16. This is the moment they wait to hear whether
#Germany
remained tied with
#SouthKorea
, meaning
#Morocco
goes through…
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Do the people of Australia know that during the Covid lockdown the only airline that kept flying its regular scheduled flights into was Qatar Airways? Kept flying in planes - without passengers but with with food and other products we relied upon.
The government is defending its decision to prevent Qatar from adding 21 extra flights each week into Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, which it said was done in the "national interest", as challenges against the move mount.
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I reckon this
#Morocco
fan deserves a retweet in celebration of the women’s team qualifying for final 16 at their first
#FIFAWomensWorldCup
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💯 percent. I’d be rich if I got a dollar every time I was told to ask a question everybody already knew the answer to. I prefer to ask my own questions in the interest of the public who would like to better understand how and why decisions are made in the interests of…
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“I have sought to show Yindyamarra to those for whom this moment is profound. This is their "sorry business" and I respect that.
But it will pass. For Indigenous people, our sorry business is without end” - Stan Grant, my husband. via
@ABCaustralia
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What a quad: Australia has supported Saudi Arabia, Russia and India in blocking
#COP26
draft statement to accelerate the phase out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels.
#whataquad
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Police are investigating an arson attack on the office of a member of parliament but it has not made the news. I wonder why.
An arson attack on Liberal MP Tina Ayyad electoral office in south western Sydney. Ayaad was the only coalition MP to sign an open letter voicing concern for “catastrophic crisis” Palestinians face. I’m yet to see any media coverage of this intimidating attack
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Ok, time to come clean. I love it when you send me messages asking me to thank ‘my team’ at The Ticket. Well, my team is me. I research, book guests, write the scripts, record the interviews, edit it, mix it, produce it. So each thanks you send I give myself seven times😊🙏
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And here's another South Sudanese perspective we are not hearing: engagement, education & contribution. Our friend Aru Dut Kok
graduates with his 3rd degree - Masters policing, intelligence and counter terrorism.
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What a game changer. There are more women fronting sport and interviewing at the highest levels of every broadcaster because of the path
@karentighe
forged. A true professional, full of grace, an empathetic interviewer. How her style and tone will be missed. Enjoy the next phase,…
Karen Tighe is saying farewell to ABC Sport after more than 30 years.
A pioneering legend of broadcasting.
Thank you, Karen. ❤️
Read more:
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Congratulations to a champion human being and one of Australia’s top
#netball
@AussieDiamonds
players,
@DonnellWallam
who has just been awarded
#NAIDOC
#sports
person of the year🏆
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A team of athletes should never be blamed for a decision taken at head office, yet that is what happened with the
@AussieDiamonds
#netball
team over the failed Hancock sponsorship arrangement, with one player specifically targeted - the only
#FirstNations
player in the team.…
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Please note
#Insiders
- the truth of history, the story of our shared history, is not a ‘history war’. It is simply history. As a nation we should be grown up enough to address it fully.
#thanks
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A few questions: a private text conversation between adults is reported to an employer who investigates and says employee cleared of breaching code of conduct. Three years later it is made public. Why? By whom? For what? Should we care?
#TimPaine
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Unanimous
#ABC
board vote of confidence for MD David Anderson. Does that mean the staff elected member voted that way too, at odds with News staff vote of no confidence in MD (125-3)?
#ItaButtrose
#DavidAnderson
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Am really honoured to be appointed Professorial Fellow in Sport
@UniCanberra
. UC’s commitment to sport and its focus on women, integrity, science and media makes it a natural fit with my sports journalism.
UC is pleased to welcome Tracey Holmes. 🙌
Tracey will be joining us as a Professorial Fellow in Sport and brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge from the sports and journalism industries.
#UniCBR
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BREAKING.....The director general of international affairs for the Thai govt has confirmed the Attorney General had requested Hakeem Al-Araibi's extradition case to Bahrain be dropped. He will be sent back to Australia tonight.
#HakeemIsSaved
#SaveHakeem
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I had no idea Andrew Bogut had such a strong interest in women’s sport.
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#Matildas
are awesome. Did you see the time they spent signing autographs, giving away their kit, posing for selfies and being real with their fans? All which came after their super athletic, powerful, exciting display of sporting ability. Bring on
#Paris2024
#TVRatings
1Nov:
@Channel10AU
#1
in under 50s, 25 to 54s & 16 to 39s.
#Matildas
v Chinese Taipei:
🥇
#1
show in under 50s, 25 to 54s &16 to 39s.
🥇
#1
in its timeslot.
🥇
#1
FTA live stream program
#AmazingRaceAU
🥇
#1
entertainment show in under 50s, 25 to 54s & 16 to 39s.
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Interesting figures out of the UK from
@VeritySmith19
&
@sullivansa1
about the supposed threat Transgender women pose to sport…
#auspol
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Oh my. Quite a few white men in the Australian media today telling a black woman, again, that what she sees as
#racism
&
#sexism
is neither of these things. One article decides to highlight stereotype of
#AngryBlackWoman
inside a collection of almost entirely white ‘best sports’
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This is for you…
💐🙏❤️
…thanks for the many kind messages.
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Rwanda was the recent host of the
#FIFA
Congress, and the country is using sport to remake its image after the genocide of the '90s. Predictably, some have accused the country of
#sportswashing
. I put that to
@cakamanzi
, CEO of the
#Rwanda
Development Board on week's ep of The…
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Thank you
#ASCMediaAwards
for this incredible recognition. Thank you, Twitter friends for all your kind messages. Thank you to all of those who have trusted me to share their stories. Thank you to the many who have guided and mentored me. Thank you to Stan, our kids and family🙏
⭐ What. A. Career.
Congratulations
@TraceyLeeHolmes
,
#ASCMediaAwards
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2022.
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Football and science are not mutually exclusive. Michelle Alozie who played for Nigeria at the World Cup has a degree in molecular biology from Yale, working at a pediatric leukemia research lab at Texas Children's Hospital. We can celebrate both.
#qanda
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Before tuning out for a few days to settle the soul ahead of a new year with new journeys, I wanted to thank you all for your company during 2023 - your kindness, your support, your suggestions, and criticisms. I am particularly conscious of those from many faiths, who are from…
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Secret drug tests? To avoid a WADA ban? Sanctioned by the sport? Faking injuries to cover up positives? Which country? Which sport? Imagine the outrage if it was anyone but us
#AFL
#WADA
#doping
#coverup
#allegations
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Interesting, isn’t it, that I have never aligned myself with any side or any terrorist organisation, but by interviewing someone in a hijab, who likewise is straight down the line recognising athletes will have to confront this issue in Paris, is misrepresented by some w an…
@TraceyLeeHolmes
@_shireenahmed_
Tracey I know that you lean left but I can't believe you would align with a terrorist regime that rapes, tortures, murder & abduct women, children and men who were doing nothing but living their peaceful lives. Let's not forget that the people in that area of Israel were lefties.
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Imagine if a South Sudanese followed a white person home & did this. It would be all over the news. To think that some politicians actually want this guy’s vote makes me seriously question what sort of country our elected leaders want.
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Stan Grant accuses the Australian newspaper of acting like a ‘racist hit squad’
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Could be argued
@BenRothenberg
that a volatile situation has been brought about by original Govt visa cancellation. Your point about protests in Melbourne are out of context, been protesting for weeks/months before
#djokovic
arrived. He has flown into what was a heated enviro.
Yes, this is a very real concern that many have quietly been discussing here.
The atmosphere at a potential Djokovic
#AusOpen
match after all this discord would be incredibly heated and charged, with a volatility that could lead to real safety concerns.
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“I’m done ... I love Brazil, Brazil has been very good to me. How fitting that I get to finish my national career with Australia in Brazil. It’s very special.” - Australia’s greatest ever
#basketball
player,
#HallOfFame
member,
@laurenej15
calls it a day after helping
@aus_opals
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Gina Rinehart finds herself in a position where she could distance herself from her father’s comments about sterilising Indigenous people so they could be bred out, thereby aligning her values with those of the Diamonds netball team.
via
@ABCaustralia
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Again, and again, and again
@Uz_Khawaja
has to justify his credentials. And again, and again, and again he fronts up.
#champion
"The last ten years hasn't been a fluke."
Usman Khawaja was joined by his daughter Aisha as he recapped his extraordinary, potentially match saving century.
Read more here:
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Not sure why they didn’t suspend her for a year, organise some nice soft media pieces showing remorse and what a good person she is then line up some work for her in another state or country. You know, like they do for the blokes.
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As it turns out
#NaomiOsaka
had written to the
#frenchopen
organisers ahead of time - and they still chose to team up with the presidents of other Grand Slam events to threaten her with suspension. Hope they take a look at themselves.
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Be a good moment to pause & think about the way Latrell Mitchell has been treated v Nathan Cleary. One fessed up, explained circumstances, copped punishment, has been ridiculed in the media since; the other lied, twice, including to integrity unit and is lauded as a leader.
#NRL
Details have emerged revealing that Nathan Cleary lied to the NRL Integrity Unit twice
👉
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Yes, he was. Till the day he died.
@abcgrandstand
@TraceyLeeHolmes
& for all those who are now feeling sorry for the 'Fab Four' of Australian
#cricket
from the
#SandpaperGate
scandal. Spare a thought for
#PeterNorman
who was ostracized by Australian sport for standing up for
#humanrights
This is a real Australian sport scandal.
#SAvsAUS
#Auspol
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Just finished the last of my crosses from
#doha
#qatar2022
#fifaworldcup
.
Thank you, Doha, thank you fans who shared their stories, thank you locals for putting on a wonderful event. I will post more later about my experiences, for now…Tracey Holmes, in Doha, over and out.
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How many Australians visit Thailand each year? How many tourist $ are invested into the Thai economy? If
#touristsunite
&
#boycottThailand
to
#SaveHakeeem
that’d be a pretty strong message to the authorities.
If Thailand deports Hakeem, there is no way I’m visiting again
#SaveHakeem
#AmazingThailand
#Boycott
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French lawmakers (26 of them) have joined the call asking the IOC and FIFA to ban Israel in the way they have banned Russia, allowing individual neutral athletes only to compete in
#Paris2024
. Recently,
@_shireenahmed_
warned sports officials this issue is not going away. Full…
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I do like colour coordination but this is ridiculous. I did not think about what I was wearing when I ordered my sweet pea and mint soup or my apple and mint frappe. I promise🤯
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Morning all😁. Yes, the news has broken that the police officer at the centre of
#SamKerr
’s racially aggravated harassment charge is white. Thanks for all those piling on, but maybe check racial vilification laws in UK and Australia instead.
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Breaking: Afghanistan's female athletes find refuge in Australia
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To all the corporates out there that want to know about
#leadership
& success under pressure...
@DonnellWallam
& the
@AussieDiamonds
are who you are looking for. Wallam dominating in her 2nd Test, shooting Australia to a series sweep over England.
#netball
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A man of many talents: rock icon, yoga teacher, surfer, author, chef, soccer aficionado, traveller, full of experiences and wisdom. Thank you for sharing the journey with so many of us, Damien Lovelock, and reminding us always to laugh.
#RIPDamo
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Epic. This Indian cricket team is the team of the year - no matter what else happens in 2021. Congratulations🥂
#AUSvsIND
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So proud of his players, yet so devastated at the same time “it’s just me…I wanted us to win so much…for the people of Australia”
#socceroos
coach Graham Arnold
#qatar2022
#fifaworldcup
is over, going down to Argentina 2-1.
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Pretty rough when you get judged by the passport you travel on (usually an accident of birth) rather than the quality of person you are…
#Djokovic
#AO
#tennis
#Azarenka
#sport
#olympics
Victoria Azarenka is absolutely right to call out this relentless xenophobic bullying of players from certain countries like her and Novak Djokovic. No brave journalist ever asked Andy Murray or Serena Williams about stuff like the Iraq War.
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Is there a venue in Australia that WON’T be playing
#AUSvFRA
#FIFAWomensWorldCup2023
? Surely this is unprecedented.
#Matildas
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For all the
#FIFAWomensWorldCup
teams, fans, journalists coming to cover the event in
#Australia
, welcome. What a month it’s going to be for you all. Especially for the
#Matildas
😎.
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Thoughts today are with those who don’t have the option of working from home, who have lost their jobs, whose businesses are closing, who cannot pay rent and are feeling stressed about feeding their families🙏 Maybe we need a rolling tally of these numbers too.
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Is it just me, or does it also strike you as strange that a golfer being celebrated for taking a 'moral stand' and refusing Saudi money, is now asking for compensation from the same Saudi money?
#LIVGolf
#PGATour
#PGALIVMerger
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Records tumble and the
#FIFAWWC
hasn’t even started yet. Ticket sales already (at around 1.3 mil) means the tournament is guaranteed to surpass the most attended WWC in history, Canada 2015. On Thursday crowd records will be set in both Aus and NZ.
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The final episode of The Ticket on the ABC takes a broad look at the future…of the
#Olympics
, of Australia's place in the world game of
#football
, of the rise and growing power of the
#athletesvoice
and of
#OscarPistorius
- a fallen icon of
#Paralympic
sport who is soon to be…
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Thank you to everyone who sent me messages. I tried to respond to all to say how grateful I am, but have failed. I have a very good excuse though, am covering the
#beijing2022
Winter
#Olympics
.
Have been humbled by your responses🙏
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I have the greatest respect for the knowledge and experience of Phil Gould but I think he’s commenting on a different
#nrlgf
to the one I am watching.
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They say it’s like riding bike, but I can assure you hours of live radio making decisions while interviewing and listening to others in your ear is not like riding a bike but
@karentighe
makes it appear that easy. So good to hear her back on
@abcsport
#grandstand
today🥂
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Cannot believe
@BBCWorld
asks ppl on street whether a woman w kids wld make better Prime Minister. When have they ever asked that of men?
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Thrilled to be rejoining the experienced team at
@SBS
to co-anchor
#FIFAWWC
#France2019
with
@Craig_Foster
@Bashola66
& former
@TheMatildas
@joeypeters10
@swalshy9
. I am no
@LucyZelic
but am honoured to join esteemed company in following the Matildas to the final😁
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Thank you to photographer extraordinaire,
@nic_walker78
, for his genius in capturing us in his photo of
#AustralianLoveStories
at the
@PortraitAu
Gallery in Canberra
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A new era in sport: athletes have stopped pretending everything is ok.
#tokyo2020
#Olympics
#gymnastics
#SimoneBiles
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Note to
@OffsidersABC
discussing racism against indigenous athletes - probably a good idea to have someone who is indigenous on the panel...plenty to choose from including the ABC’s own
@CharlieKing1057
@Tonaaayy_
or athletes like
#Matildas
star
@lydsaussie
. Cheers.
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I just love this…look where Australia
#socceroos
officially finish at the
#Qatar2022
#FIFAWorldCup
: 11th, well ahead of two of the nations in the so-called group of death with the remaining nation
#France
on target to defend the title (unless
#Morocco
continues its winning way)
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I reckon if I’d paid $40mil to be rights holder for Commonwealth Games and organisers told me I couldn’t broadcast the athletes &
@kurtfearnley
entering the stadium I’d be telling them, ‘watch this space’.
#ClosingCeremony
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Gotta love this job. It might have been a car park at
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
but it’s not where you are, it’s who you are with that counts. 4xOlympian, multi gold medallist, flag bearer
@catecamp
@AUSOlympicTeam
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The best 13th place ever: Afghanistan Paralympian, Hossain Rasouli, a 100 metre runner who missed his event because he was fleeing the Taliban in Kabul, competes in the long jump instead and sets a PB💪
#Tokyo2020
#Paralympics
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The men's
#cricket
team from
#Afghanistan
continues to impress. More evidence that support and investment reaps dividends. So why, when cricket has become an
#Olympic
sport for
#LA28
, does the
#ICC
International Cricket Council still not give development funds (supposedly for men…
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Happy to take advice on this, if $1.1 mil is split between four ALF men’s teams, and $1.1 mil is split between 8 ALF women’s teams, is that equal or is that half?
"We have two of the best sporting competitions in the country.. I am pleased to be able to announce equal players' prizemoney for both our elite AFL and AFLW competitions"
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‘Not appropriate to comment’ says
#NRL
boss Peter V’Landys on NRL rights holder re serious allegations concerning former star player, now coach, and Fox Sports analyst - Sam Burgess. Actually, this is the time...it is very appropriate to comment.
#leadership
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