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Sprint
The finest start in sprinting history - my win in the Open 100 metres
B Division in high school.
El Alamein
Each year the Australian Army runs a firepower demonstration called
Exercise El Alamein. Basically they set up a grandstand on a hilltop overlooking a weapons range. Then they fire, throw, drive,
drop, launch, bomb, detonate, spray and shoot every weapon they own. They also serve hot dogs.
5/8th
Rugby is about confidence. Fortunately, the army teaches this stuff,
so for the first time in my life I took the football field like a man who was going to score a lot of points before half time.
The Lincoln Wreck
In March 1994 I climbed to the wreck of the Lincoln bomber with my
friend Suzi Luttrell. The wreck is just short of the summit of Mt Superbus in south-east Queensland. She kept calling it Super
Bus.
Killy
My friend Lumpy has a beach house with a pot-bellied stove at Kilcunda
on the Bass Coast in southern Victoria. The wall clock is deliberately missing a minute hand.
The first snow of winter
In January 2000 I was in New York for the first snowfall of the
winter. I could say, "I was in New York on business", but I'd have trouble keeping a straight face.
Sevens
The Hong Kong Rugby 7's used to be a three-day tournament to see
who will loose to Fiji in the final.
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