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Jim Thorpe
Everything Thorpe did was a “first”. He played a staggering range of sports, and excelled at them all.
1 May 2012
Emil Zatopek
This Czech superstar is credited with inventing interval training, but he was a sporting pioneer in many ways.
1 Apr 2012
Muhammad Ali
Though equally reviled and idolised, he deserved the self-conferred epithet “The Greatest”.
24 Feb 2012
George Ligowski
Sport wouldn’t exist at all except for certain ingenious, often unrelated, little inventions that open up a world of possibilities.
29 Dec 2011
Harry Mclaren
It’s time this innovator was given the recognition he deserves for bringing us the surf ski.
1 Oct 2011
Hawk-Eye
For athletes, the “how” and “why” of what they do is no longer a mystery.
1 Sep 2011
Tom Willis
A Fine Cricketer and Footballer, and the first man to write up a set of rules for our indigenous code of Football: Tom Willis is a colourful, tragic giant of Australian Sport.
11 Aug 2010
Sonja Henie
Sport and entertainment just didn’t mix before controversial figure skater Sonja Henie and her too-short skirt came along in the roaring ’20
15 Feb 2010
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