Athletics
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Atkinson and Sharp win Australian Triathlon Championships!
Queenslanders, Courtney Atkinson and Alee Sharp have been crowned the 2008 Australian Triathlon Champions, after securing their wins in searing conditions on Perth’s waterfront on 5 February.
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INTERVIEW: Kate Allen
At the Olympic Games in Beijing, Kate Allen wants to defend her Athens 2004 title. How her day-to-day training is going five months before the event, and how her competition is motivating her, the 37 year-old triathlete divulges in an interview.
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Badmann returns
4:08:18 hours: No woman has ever finished an Ironman faster than Natascha Badmann in Cambridge. In an interview the Swiss Badmann talks about her feelings during the race – and how she wants to win her sixth World Championship title in Hawaii.
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Jon Durand: Champion hang-glider
Gold Coast hang-glider, Jon Durand, is one of the youngest pilots on the elite circuit and, at the ripe old age of 26, broke a world record for the longest flight from a mountain.
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Courtney Atkinson, Triathlete
Courtney Atkinson was 17 when he was first referred to as a “legend”. Now, aged 29, he's living the dream - training for the Beijing Olympics after winning the Beijing Test Event / World Cup in 2007.
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