Master Coach (Revised Edition)
Arthur Lydiard was the most successful and influential running coach of the last fifty years. He burst into prominence at the Rome Olympics in 1960 when his two protégés, Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, won Olympic gold medals on the same day.
They excite and inspire us, frustrate and disappoint us — when great sporting rivals meet, we live each moment with them as their fortunes fluctuate. During the past few decades, we have witnessed many superbly matched opponents, in a wide range of sports.
The Team that Inspired a Region
It was one of the teams deemed least likely to succeed in the glitzy new netball franchise competition launched in 1998, but it succeeded way beyond anyone’s expectations. In the process, the Southern Sting captured the hearts and lifted the spirits of a region that had suffered decades of having the stuffing knocked out of it.
