So proud to be involved in this amazing Ad "Colours of Australia" celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Colorbond featuring Annette Edmondson and Alex Manly !! See if you can spot them !!
Tasmania’s 2015 Athlete of the Year, champion cyclist Amy Cure, candidly admits stress is “always” with her. “Leading up to selection of making a team, leading into an event, the week before and even on race day, these are always stressful times for me, when my hands start to sweat,” says Cure, who is in Europe preparing for the Rio Olympics.
“I know this is all part of being an elite athlete. One of the most important things is to find out how to overcome this and turn it around into a positive. You need to learn how to make stress your friend.”
ADELAIDE Thunderbirds defender Kate Shimmin wants the job on Northern Mystics superstar Maria Tutaia when they meet in Auckland on Monday night.
Coming off a confidence-boosting performance in the Thunderbirds extremely competitive loss to reigning champions Queensland Firebirds, Shimmin is eager to take on the challenge against the Silver Ferns’ long-bomb specialist.
“I want that job, absolutely,’’ Shimmin said. “You have to play the typical Aussie hard one-on-one defence and suffocate her.
Sporting superstitions come in myriad forms, and it’s no surprise a beach volleyballer’s can include the colour of bikini worn in competition.
Like countless elite athletes all over the world, Australian Olympic hopefuls Nikki Laird and Mariafe Artacho del Solar are governed by a set of rituals and habits that make their game feel just right.
There’s the identical manner in which the duo position themselves in relation to one another, and the way they’ll avoid resting on one side of a court if they sense “bad energy”.
MANLY duo Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Nikki Laird continue to push their claims for Olympic selection in Rio come August, winning the Pak Bara Open in Thailand this week.
The pair couldn’t have been more impressive, not dropping a set in the tournament.
In the final they beat Kazakhstan’s Tatyana Mashkova and Irina Tsimbalova in straight sets, 21-16, 21-16.
BECCHARA Palmer was just an average schoolgirl until a sports scientist from the South Australian Institute noticed her long arms and told her she could represent her country.
Nine years later she was at the London Olympics with the Australian beach volleyball team.
“I had never even thought about playing volleyball or would have ever believed I could go to the Olympics before that day. I guess the sport picked me in a way, but I loved it and I haven’t looked back,” she said
A great video featuring Grace Abbey ...Female Football Ambassador for SA as part of a national campaign led by Football Federation of Australia (FFA) to promote Female Football Week ..... great job Grace !!!!
Great to see Amy Cure and Annette Edmondson featuring in Channel 7's latest Rio Olympic Games promo video !! Nice one girls
BECCHARA Palmer has her eyes firmly on the prize — the Rio Olympics — and her preparations will go up a notch at the upcoming Volleyfest on Manly Beach.
The 27-year-old, who represented Australia at the 2012 Games in London, will be paired with one time peninsula resident Sarah Battaglene.
Speaking on Wednesday at Manly, Palmer’s excitement was obvious.
“The past four years have flown by, I would love the chance to compete in another Olympics,’’ she said.
In 1979 while teaching nude photography in New York, Martin HM Schrieber came across a young life model by the name of Madonna Ciccone.
Long before she would rise to fame as "Madonna", he was paying her rent in New York by posing for a nude photography class at Parsons School of Design. She was 20 years old and, in Schrieber's memory, she was relaxed and composed and good at following direction. She wasn't a bad model, but she wasn't particularly spectacular either.
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OLYMPIC hopefuls Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Nikki Laird enjoyed the perfect start to their Rio campaign at the Australian Beach Volleyball Championships.
The pair were flawless in the Gold Coast tournament and didn’t drop a set, including yesterday’s final, which they won 21-14, 21-16 over international team Michaela Vorlova (Czech Republic) and Lucia Michalovicova (Slovakia).
Mariafe was on hand when NSW Premier Mike Baird confirmed Manly Beach will host the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour Finals, the inaugural 4 Nations Cup, and the Asian Volleyball Confederation Beach Volleyball Championships from March 18-28.
Dubbed the “Manly Volleyfest”, it will become a regular fixture on the northern beaches sporting calendar over the next three years.
Congratulations to new Adelaide United Football Club Ambassador : Mariafe Artacho del Solar
Great to see MJ featuring on the back page of the Adelaide Advertiser today .... promoting this Sundays clash against Newcastle at Coopers Stadium !!
Check out Super Star Mariafe featuring in the brand new TV AD my My Plates !!
