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 Nicole Livingstone OAM is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter.
Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She retired from swimming after the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and joined the Australian sports network Nine Network as a host of Nine's Wide World of Sport, and a commentator for swimming. Livingstone is currently a radio presenter for Melbourne station SEN 1116. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
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 Olympic gold and silver medallist Brooke Hanson made her debut for the Australian Swimming Team in 1994.
Representing Australia over 20 times at major international championships, Brooke claimed several podium finishes along the way including the 2004 World Short Course Championships where she made history, winning a record six gold medals.
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 Gliding over the finish line at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games saw Steven Bradbury’s name etched into the history books. Skating in the 1000m final and in fifth place, the unthinkable happened. Race favourite Apolo Anton Ohno from the United States and the other 3 skaters ahead of Steven, fell in a tangle of skates and arms and legs on the ice. Leaving the path clear for Steven, he glided across the finish line in first place and became the first EVER Australian to win a Winter Olympic Gold Medal!!!
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Russell Mark has been one of the world's best trapshooters for over a decade. Since his first major international gold medal in the 1991 Olympic Trap World Cup in Los Angeles Russell has won and created world and Australian records in not only Olympic Trap, but also in Double Trap and D.T.L. (American Trap).
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 Mark represented Australia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and at the 2006 World Championships and was a gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games in 2006.
In 2005 Mark made his Boomers debut in the Kirin Cup in Tokyo.
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 Chris is currently co-captain of the Melbourne Tigers in the National Basketball League. In the two years since his return, the Tigers have won one championship and been runner up in the other. Chris is currently recognised as the best player in the NBL. He was voted the Most Valuable Player in the NBL in 2006, and was named in the NBL All Star 5 in both seasons since returning to Australia.
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 ‘Wadey’ as he is known around the world had a remarkable International career. Making a total of 118 Socceroo appearances over 10 years including ’88 Olympic Games & two World Cup campaigns, he completed one of the toughest tasks in football – to mark Diego Maradona in the two legged world cup play off against Argentina.
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 'Will I be able to ski?'
It was the only question nine-year-old Michael Milton cared about when the doctors told him he would lose his leg to bone cancer. Michael grew up in a skiing family and was on the snow from just three years of age. 'Skiing was my priority and when they showed me a video of a one-legged guy skiing, I knew what I wanted to do,' said Michael.
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 Gary Ronald Honey (born 26 July 1959) is a retired long jumper from Australia. He won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics with a jump of 8.24 metres. In addition, Honey won gold medals at the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games. He participated in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1980.
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 Michelle Jan Ford MBE was an Australian long distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games. She also set two world records in her career, and was the first Australian woman to win individual Olympic medals in two distinct specialized strokes.
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