Lauren Jackson has been celebrated for her courage and bravery, with the basketball great revealing she competed in her fifth Olympics in Paris just a month before a knee replacement.
The award recognises an individual, team or organisation who "show courage and bravery and have changed sport for the better".
The award recognises an individual, team or organisation who "show courage and bravery and have changed sport for the better". "I always said right from the beginning of me starting to play again that I was on borrowed time, and I knew that my knee at some point was going to go," Jackson told AAP. "I'm really honoured as Dawn is someone I've looked up to for a long time," she said. "She's inspired the nation, but she's also my friend.
Jackson first retired from the sport in 2016 due to a knee problem, and the mother of two also had her season ended early in 2023 by an achilles injury.
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