At the end of another extraordinary sporting year, it’s time to celebrate the best and worst athletes, moments and quotes from 2024.
And so we approach the end of an extraordinary sporting year that had as much colour, movement, controversy, glory, grace, disgrace, fame and shame as any we’ve ever seen – and that was just Raygun!Fever Las Vegas
News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch with NRL bosses Andrew Abdo and Peter V’landys in Las Vegas this year. In fact, Cummins didn’t even go that far. He merely said the bleeding obvious: “I absolutely love Australia, it is the best country in the world by a mile and I think we should have an Australia Day, but I think we can probably find a more appropriate day to celebrate. Once you start realising Jan 26 and why it is chosen ... Australia Day is meant to be a celebration of everything Australia and our history. we could choose a better date.
The first 20 minutes was a cavalcade of English jerseys charging towards the Australian line, reminiscent of the famous quip from an Irish fly-half in the late 1950s, who lamented being constantly bested by his English opponent Phil Horrocks-Taylor: “Horrocks went one way, Taylor the other and I was left holding the bloody hyphen.”
And here he is! With grand ceremony Macron makes his entrance with IOC President Thomas Bach, a few military types and the French Ministère des Sports. He nailed it, with 1.2 seconds on the clock, to see his Tasmanian JackJumpers team beat Melbourne United in game three of the NBL finals.“I mean, I believe that today’s plans were already laid out many years ago and I could do nothing to mess up those plans. I’ve been given a gift of this talent and I use it for God’s glory.”
“I hope it goes to show, anyone can do what they want to do if they work hard and believe in themselves. And here I am, from little old Launie , a town of 90,000, and I’m out here living the dream, so I hope that inspired kids back home.”“That was the most incredible moment of my life. I’ve been crying for the last 30 minutes. I was crying of stress and nerves sitting there.”“Emma is in the conversation.
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