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Great Australian Sporting Stories
- Narrated by: Chris Chapple
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Australia enjoys a rich sporting heritage. Our small population has yielded a disproportionate number of champions. These sports stars have become known worldwide as fierce combatants and honourable competitors, achieving soaring victories, but also heart-pounding near-wins and humbling defeats.
Veteran Australian sports journalists Ian Heads and Norman Tasker have seen it all.
In these 65 original stories, we hear of the explosive introduction of World Series Cricket in 1977, which turned a genteel endeavour into a high-octane contest, and the clash of the titans as Packer and Murdoch squared off over the Super League war. We see Rugby Union become a battleground for race and the Olympics an arena for sublime acts of courage and achievement. We get an insider's perspective on every kind of sporting endeavour - from boxing to tennis, cricket to AFL, athletics to rugby league - and not just the action on the field but the change room gossip and clubhouse politics as well.
Written with wit, insight and a wealth of knowledge, Great Australian Sporting Stories is an enthralling expedition into the combative, collegiate, entertaining and always exciting world of Australian sport.
Critic Reviews
"Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down." (John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee)
"I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a century combined in journalism." (Ian Chappell, former Australian cricket Captain)
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-2022
Absorbing
I enjoyed this collection of tales. it showed a great variety of sports and era's.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-09-2024
IM NOT SURE...
I still haven't finished but felt I needed to write this, bur will definitely finish and review again....
so I've listened to the first hour or more and it is like the history of these two authors in journalism....... and this may be fine for some, but I don't want to hear about journalism.... I want to hear about the great sporting stories..... not how they came about to report on them..... anyways I hope it gets better.
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