This article recounts Australia's triumphs at the 2024 Paris Olympics, highlights standout athletes like Emma McKeon and Jessica Fox, and celebrates the nation's Paralympic success. It also touches on major global sporting events like the European and Copa America championships.
2024 was a huge year in the world of sport, both in Australia, and around the world. SBS looks back at the best stories from the last twelve months. Any discussion of 2024 in sport has to start with the Paris Olympic Games - a success that helped re-attach Australians to the Olympics , a passion that had waned somewhat in recent years, as the Games try to find their place in a reshaped professional sporting world.
Australia finished fourth on the medal tally with eighteen golds, nineteen silvers, and sixteen bronzes.Swimmer Emma McKeon picked up a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal to become Australia's most decorated Olympian ever, with fourteen medals.Noemie and Jessica Fox both won gold... the latter medalling in a fourth consecutive Olympics. Now one of the most popular sportspeople in the country, Jessica Fox says so much support a long way from home played a big role in her triumph. “I think hugging mum, hugging my sister, and dad....and then also, the podium was extremely special. Seeing so many Aussies in the crowd was unbelievable. I had some family and friends there. But then there were so many others, there was such a big Aussie contingent. And they were so loud, and it was amazing. They were singing the anthem. They did some Aussie Aussie, oi, oi, oi. And it was just the most special day” Australian Paralympians also did the country proud... bringing home 63 medals, including eighteen gold. It was a big year in the world game, with Spain winning the European Championship, world champions Argentina taking out the Copa America, and the Ivory Coast winning the African Cup of Nations at senior men's level.Real Madrid took out their sixth European Champions League title in eleven years.He says he wants his win to be an inspiration for those who, like him, have come from humble beginnings. “Truly, I am very happy. This is a dream come true. To come from a very poor place in Brazil and to get here is something improbable, but not impossibl
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