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Our Man Bond Stars In Sportswatch Spring 2016 What’s Inside From the QSport Offi ce Page 3 84 Olympic Gold Medallist refl ects on RIO 16 Page 5 Thinking of volunteering for the Commonwealth Games Australia’s Chris Bond pushes down the court as USA’s Josh Brewer reaches for the ball during an epic gold medal match Page 6 to fi nish the Rio 2016 wheelchair rugby tournament. Photo credit: CWSA/Kevin Bogetti-Smith. © Challenges ahead for state level sport Our man Bond Page 7 stars in Rio Rio Ramblings Sport and recreation organisation staff in Brisbane’s Sports House at Milton by Karl deKroo were as proud as punch on the closing day of the Rio Paralympics when Page 10 co-worker Chris Bond OAM won gold in the fi nal of the wheelchair rugby tournament. His team, Australia’s Steelers, went back to back after lifting gold in London Sport Awards 2012 to defeat the USA in double overtime 59-58 in front of a packed Rio Date Claimer stadium. Page 14 Bond, who works out of the QSport Offi ce on average three days a week for the Australian Sports Foundation (ASF), was pivotal in the win, scoring Australian Sports with less than two seconds left to send the match into double overtime and Foundation Snapshot later safely inbounding the ball to team-mate Ryley Batt to run down the remaining seconds for a famous and well-earned victory. Page 15 Well done, Chris. You’re a champion. More on Rio 2016 and the ASF inside. Sportswatch is a quarterly publication of QSport which is an independent collective of State sporting organisations established to enhance the development of sport in Queensland. Sportswatch aims to inform readers and views expressed in Sportswatch are not necessarily those of QSport. No responsibility is accepted by QSport for consequences emanating from actions or failures to act on material within this publication. For contributions, advertisements and enquiries, contact the QSport Office at Sports House, Cnr Castlemaine and Caxton Streets MILTON Q 4064 Telephone 07 3369 8955 Facsimile 07 3369 8977 Email [email protected] 2 Sportswatch - Spring 2016 From the By the time this edition of Sportswatch is up and What happens next in the Olympics landscape will out, we’ll be well past Rio 2016 and the major be interesting, as the focus moves from athletes football code competition Grand Finals, with competing in Rio to the backrooms of sport politics. spring well and truly sprung. The Australian Olympic Committee and indeed the In this edition, we look back on Rio 2016 through IOC will conduct their own reviews of Rio ’16 while the eyes of two well credentialed onlookers in the Australian Sports Commission has already 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in athletics moved to reaffi rm its Winning Edge program and Glynis Nunn OAM, who like most of us watched foreshadow more governance reform for at least these Olympics via Channel 7’s coverage and Olympic national sporting organisations. News Queensland’s Head of Sport Karl deKroo The Australian State Government sport agency who was in Rio before and during the Games. dominated Committee of Australian Sport and There are diff erences between the 2016 Olympics Recreation Offi cials will continue to look at and Paralympics and sad to say, it includes negativity developing a better understanding of major issues that was directed towards our Olympians when the aff ecting the sport and recreation sectors that team didn’t fi nish top fi ve that comes to mind. have a close intersection with government. It is disappointing and does us no great credit. And post the Xmas / New Year break, it will be interesting to see if the Federal Minister for Sport While there are undoubtedly some errors in sees the need for the traditional from time to time judgement here and there that with the benefi t inquiry into the future of Australian sport, a la of hindsight, could have been eliminated, does Crawford, Oakley et al over the past 20 years since anyone seriously believe that our athletes weren’t Atlanta. trying to do their best? Probably not, one would hope, given the track Isn’t that all that we should ask of and want for record of what happens to the outcomes of such these mostly young people who put so much of time consuming, expensive exercises. themselves into it for their and our enjoyment. Locally here in Queensland and particularly in the And if you’re beaten on the day, it’s just that. They south east, the notion of an Olympics / Paralympics accept it for what it is and if the chance can exist in this part of the world in 2028 or 2032 is gathering again, they try again. pace and it’s that question that increasingly will People in high and not so high places reminding consume locals as a feasibility study rolls on. us how much the Australian taxpayer contributed Finally, refl ecting on non-Olympic sport on the is handy, as if it was wasted because we didn’t weekend of the AFL and NRL premiership deciders, end up higher up an Olympics medals ladder, as was there a greater contrast in Australian sport if taxpayers aren’t contributing to non-Olympic this year than the respective ladder positions sports. of AFL wooden spooner Essendon and the NRL Sport is about competing and when I look at the Grand Finalist Cronulla? sportspeople who actually compete, I’m forever reminded that they’re having a go, participating, winning and losing and they and we are all the Peter Cummiskey better for it. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Sportswatch - Spring 2016 3 4 Sportswatch - Spring 2016 84 Olympic Gold Medallist reflects on Rio 16 Glynis Nunn- Cearns OAM who entertained decisions to be made well before the upcoming QSport members and guests at the 4 July major international event as the frustration of annual QSport Luncheon opens up on how many who had worked so hard for so many years the Gold Coast Academy of Sport Executive would be overwhelming. It is necessary to appeal to the intelligence of the collective sport leadership Director saw Rio 2016. so they can analyse, consciously the facts and motivations which led to the IOC decision. For THE OLYMPIC GAMES - RIO – exciting, eventful, months and months prior to the Games, the defining, memorable, disappointments, difficulties, fire smouldered with numerous warnings to the stunning, frightening and WOW. These are some authorities of the International Federations. words I have used to describe the greatest athletic show on earth. At a time where sport is battling With these collective problems, I continue to for its very identity it is wonderful to have our lives question why countries who are struggling to filled with extraordinary performances. From the feed and house their increasing population get gladiatorial heights of Bolt and Phelps, to the lesser the nod of approval to hold such expensive known athletes from smaller countries who attend multi-sport celebrations. The Olympic movement for the experience, the Games hold pressures and seems to be ‘operate’ in a bubble away from the expectations and a lifetime of memories. day to day existence of real life. From my position in my chair watching the Games at the Gold Coast, in Australia, Brazil seems to be But outside the bubble of the Olympics - there a country of contrast – from over the top opulence were empty seats at venues, an issue, especially to inequality and poverty. What a backdrop - with in sports like beach volleyball which is so popular Christ the Redeemer looking over everything from in Brazil. Again from watching on TV, the Brazilians the sporting arenas to the poverty-stricken favelas. have been vibrant, vocal and, in some cases, As with all Olympics there were always problems slightly hostile to opposition athletes. We haven’t to overcome - issues such as doping concerns, seen many of the daily problematic issues, we have country participation, security, accommodation, been shown the beautiful scenery on Guanabara venues readiness, falling cameras, water quality Bay and the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and many (pools turning green) and the weather. Some were stories show the personality of the country, not able to be controlled, others not. the day to day struggles of transport, security and food queues and the issue as Jess Fox stated, of Before the Games started we had the issue of remembering not to flush toilet paper. whether Russia would be there. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to leave it to When competition started it was exactly what each of the International Sport Federations ruling Rio needed. Athletic performances provided a bodies to take the major and difficult decision break from the doom, gloom and controversy. It regarding excluding cheats within their respective provided us a reminder of why we watch sport. disciplines. What the Games needed was a few gold medals to be won and some outstanding performance to It was the collective sanction originally put forward forget about all the problems. that affected many innocent athletes in many sports. In future, it would be great for these Some outstanding performances have come Sportswatch - Spring 2016 5 from Brazilians. None quite so exciting as the That is Rio. Some great performances, some young pole vaulter Thiago Braz da Silva who beat absolutely amazing performances and some the renowned Frenchman. Of course you can’t disappointing feats. It remains an unenviable job go past Brazil’s national sport - SOCCER - yes, a for the coach and athlete - to time the ultimate GOLD. Gold to the men’s beach volleyball team, peaking on the day that counts.
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