The_Guardian_-_2016-12-29

Shane Warne questions evolution: ‘We started from aliens’
“Look at those pyramids, Bonnie. You couldn’t do them. You couldn’t pull those ropes, huge bits of
brick and make it perfectly symmetrical. Couldn’t do it. So who did it?” Maybe they turned a few
monkeys into humans and said, ‘Yeah, it works.’” The whole episode proved there really are topics
of conversation other than leg-spin and pizza toppings with which the cricket great can captivate the
nation. Good areas 51, Shano.
The Nick D’Arcy commemorative premix can for Olympic
transgressions
I guess we should be thankful that it was something as tame as ticket tampering that led to threats of
the slammer for Australian athletes in Rio and not some Stilnox-infused Games village orgy, but the
$47,000 in fines levied on the “Naughty Nine” made headlines for days.
Speedo and Swimming Australia: 60 years of
Aussie cossies – in pictures
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The Karmichael Hunt poisoned chalice for falling victim to the
Swisse curse
Went in spectacular style to the Campbell sisters, Cate and Bronte, who promised the world,
delivered relay gold but couldn’t get it done in their individual events after months of pre-loaded
Swisse vitamins TV commercials had placed them in David Warner-OLED territory in the minds of a
slightly puzzled Australian public.
It was older sister Cate who saved the day with a brutally honest post-race interview after bombing
out in the final of the women’s 100m freestyle. “That hurt, not as much as it’s hurting right now,”
Campbell said. “I’ve always said that I didn’t need a gold medal to have self-worth and I guess that
that’s being put to the test at the moment.” It was heartbreaking.