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Sporting Nation

Rating:3.0 of 5Total number of episodes:6
Last broadcast:21/05/2016 at 12:03
2016
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Season 1, Episode 3

3.0 226 x
Since Cathy Freeman's win at the 2000 Olympics we've had Cadel & other champions but we now watch more sport than we play. John asks some of our greatest athletes why sport is important. The answers are not what you'd think.
58:00

Season 1, Episode 2

3.0 152 x
Failure at the 1976 Montreal Olympics forced a rebuild and while we attempted an international comeback, domestic sport became big business. As the Sydney Olympics approached, Australia hoped for great things.
57:00

Season 1, Episode 1

3.0 334 x
In this three-part series, John Clarke, arguably Australia's greatest natural athlete, looks at how Australia came to take its sport so seriously and what it means to be a sporting nation.
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Episode 3

3.0 417 x
Since Cathy Freeman's win at the 2000 Olympics we've had Cadel & other champions but we now watch more sport than we play. John asks some of our greatest athletes why sport is important. The answers are not what you'd think.

Episode 2

3.0 267 x
Failure at the 1976 Montreal Olympics forced a rebuild and while we attempted an international comeback, domestic sport became big business. As the Sydney Olympics approached, Australia hoped for great things.

Episode 1

3.0 196 x
In this three-part series, John Clarke, arguably Australia's greatest natural athlete, looks at how Australia came to take its sport so seriously and what it means to be a sporting nation.
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