TAGGED: athletics
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Simon Smith remembers John Landy, one of Australia’s greatest athletes.

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This is one of the best surviving films of John Landy in action is this report filmed by Cinesound cameras in January 1953. 

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This round-up of the final day of the Sydney 2000 Paralympics from New 10 Perth News, broadcast on 29 October 2000, highlights two of the 'golden girls' of the outstanding 2000 Paralympic team.

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Sydney hosting the Summer Paralympics in 2000 gave Paralympians and parasport a profile they hadn’t previously had in Australia.

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Tim Sullivan OAM is an elite Australian athlete with cerebral palsy. As we see here, Sullivan had an incredible Paralympic Games in 2000, winning 5 gold medals.

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Heath Francis OAM is an Australian elite athlete with a disability.

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In 2021, 3-time Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley AO shared his story with the NFSA.

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Australian sprinter Peter Norman standing on the podium with fellow athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith has become one of the most iconic – and political – sporting photographs of

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We profile some of Australia's Olympic stories of recent decades and examine the important role the event has played in our cultural identity.

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This broadcast news segment covers Sally Pearson’s 100m hurdles gold medal – one of the great wins for Australia in recent Olympic history.