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2016
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.
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.
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.
Episodes 2013
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.
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.
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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