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In 'Power of the Pedal', read about cycling in Australia from the penny farthing to 21st-century commuters and Olympic stars. Bicycles changed our lives! They meant a new and faster way to get around and gave rise to ways of exploring, socialising and competing. In the nineteenth century cycling encoura ...Show more
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The Launceston region of Northern Tasmania has had a long and fruitful history with all things automotive. Some of the earliest carriage builders worked here, and via the Grand Prix races at Longford in the 1950's and 60's, and the global success of Targa Tasmania the interest in all things cars has nev ...Show more
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Discover the next frontier in sports training--improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience--and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life. Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it. The playmaker on any sp ...Show more
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Life and Death: a cycling memoir, is the story of that triumph. It is also the tale of the backbreaking hard work it took to get there-the audacity of O'Donnell's late arrival in a brutally tough sport, the physical grind of training and the mind games of team selection, the rejections, the disappointme ...Show more
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Norm Smith Medal, Best Player of theVFL/AFL Grand Final, 1979-2017
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'Peak Rock' is a celebration of significant developments at the cutting edge of rock climbing in the Peak District, from the day that James W. Puttrell first set foot on rock at Whamcliffe in the late 19th century through to modern day ascents on the area's gritstone and limestone crags.
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An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York Times) Both a onetime "near-great junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the ...Show more
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When the AFL's father-son rule was introduced in the 1940s, it gave emerging players the chance to live out the ultimate lifelong dream- to play for the same beloved club as their fathers. This is about as sentimental as football gets. Today some of the AFL's finest players are the sons of guns - legend ...Show more
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'A young, naive kid, with a brand-new football. Over time, the leather aged from the bumps along the trail. The Footscray winters and some glorious liniment-scented afternoons. All of the laughs, the scraps, the yarns and characters. The game. It all left a mark on me, on my soul.' Bob Murphy has never ...Show more
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From the first time he sat on a horse aged 12, Darren Gauci had what it took to be a high class rider. A natural athlete with an innate affinity with horses, he smashed records as an apprentice and has been in the headlines ever since. Riding all around Australia and beyond for the best of trainers agai ...Show more
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'Strap yourselves in for a thrilling tale' - Inside Sport Some of Australia's greatest sporting legends are horses - Phar Lap, Kingston Town, Black Caviar. Now a new legend has captivated the heart of the nation - Winx. After a patchy start, the unremarkable-looking bay mare settled into a winning ...Show more