Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
In 2002, Australia won two gold medals. Steven Bradbury, a member of the bronze-winning 1994 relay team, won gold in short track speed skating when all of his competitors in the 1000 metres final fell over. Jacqui Cooper was previously the favourite to win a medal for Australia in aerials, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
In 2006, Australia sent 40 athletes to compete in 10 sports, a record number of competitors and events. For the first time, Australia set a goal of winning a medal.[4] Aerial skiing medal hope Lydia Ierodiaconou injured herself when she landed badly in the second qualification jump, while Jacqui Cooper, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia's short track relay team went into the 1992 Olympics as world champions, but the team crashed in the semi-finals.[2] Australia won its first Paralympic medals in 1992: a gold, a silver and two bronze. In 1994, Australia's short track relay team won Australia's first Winter Olympic medal, a bronze, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia sent 31 athletes in 1960, its largest team prior to the 2006 Winter Olympics, its size boosted by an outclassed ice hockey team. Hal Nerdal competed in Nordic combined, the only time Australia has ever participated in the event at the Olympics. In contrast to the large 1960 team, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Speed skater Colin Coates competed from 1968 to 1988, coming sixth in 1976 with the 10000 metres event, Australia's best result prior to Lillehammer in 1994. Although a competitor on paper in 1988, Colin was supposed to only be a coach and was forbidden to compete, but when it was ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia first competed at the Winter Olympics in 1936, when its sole representative, Kenneth Kennedy, competed in speed skating. Australia did not send a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics, but has competed at every Winter Olympics since, sending nine athletes to the 1952 Olympics. At the 1956 Winter Olympics, ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia achieved its first medal, a bronze, in 1994 in the men's 5,000 metres short track relay event. Zali Steggall gained Australia's first individual medal in 1998 when she won bronze in the slalom event. In 2002, Steven Bradbury won gold in the 1,000 metres short track speed skating and ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia sent 40 competitors to compete in 10 sports at the 2006 Games in Turin, a record number of athletes and events for the nation. For the first time, there was a stated aim of winning a medal, and this goal was achieved when Dale Begg-Smith won the gold medal ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Australia first competed in the Winter Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and has participated in every Winter Olympics since, with the exception of the 1948 Games in St. Moritz. ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Our past experience with fires and fire deaths shows that we must ensure an adequate number of open exits from any occupied building... It's hard to believe, in today's day and age that any business owner or manager would be so insensitive to fire safety as to allow this sort ...
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