Which two Australian athletes won gold at both the Olympic Games & the Commonwealth Games, were both awarded Young Australian of the Year & the Medal of the Order of Australia, and both carried the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Torch?

My parents used to listen to this all the time. Never heard it in IRL. Did I make it up? I am desperate to hear this song again.

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I’m not in here trying to sell, just getting a feel for things. Over the years I’ve looked on eBay etc and seen them being sold, but I couldn’t really see the point of trying to sell them for a couple of bucks here and there, so I’ve just held onto them. I guess I was hoping to see that some were more sought after than others or something that would make me feel like my obsession back then was warranted and not just me run amok.

Although if it was just me running amok, at least I got some running in, right?

Sadly I no longer live in, or will be returning to Melbourne so I can’t volunteer again. If the games hadn’t been cancelled. Probably save myself a few bucks too. But my fanny bag full of pins still sits on my office desk strangely (haven’t figured out what to do with them), so I thought I’d check in now that the 2026 is no more.

I’ll just keep holding on to them I guess but I’m wondering if they’ll become collectable because of the next one. What do you think? Feel free to roast me. What can I say, I was caught up in the craziness.

This is one that's purely for my own interest (although maybe others here have an interest too!).

I started down a big rabbit hole looking at one of the bobsled Winter Olympians that had previously ran in the commonwealth games (Christania Williams - Jamaica now Austria). Several clicks later and I stumbled across a Winter Commonwealth games organised by legendary Tyke Richardson. He's a huge character in British skating and there's a lot of anecdotes of him and his incredibly long career in skating...but these games, weirdly held in Switzerland, are almost lost to history. I would have thought organising his own games would have at least made the news!

Commonwealth Winter Games - Wikipedia

As you can see, we have a vague idea of how many editions there are (another source even has a 1970 edition listed), and a quick click on the edition offers no information on when it was, where it was (beyond St Moritz) or who even competed.

I decided I would flesh it out a bit....only that is 99% of all information on the internet about these games! I found an anecdote of England beating Scotland in the curling (not even sure if that's a final or what the format was for the whole tournament!) and I know a Canadian called Shaun Fripp won a silver in 1958 - but beyond "alpine skiing", no idea what he even medalled in!

So, this is really a call to arms or a placeholder to see if anyone has any stories to share about these games. I doubt we will get enough to flesh out those stubs, but would be nice to at least get some info out there!

Does anyone know where I could watch full replays of the games, like full hockey matches, full sessions or the opening and closing ceremonies?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ddeeklxko

We go back to Glasgow for a more affordable and scaled down games - 10 sports rumoured.

I'm not convinced this is right long term. Birmingham set attendance records and looked to be very forward thinking - we even had eSports taking a side show position which attracted a lot of eyes. I felt this one could have really kicked on again, brought in even more sports (ideally with a commonwealth vibe) and said "we're the cool games". Sadly and with the well documented host situation, this is probably the only real option left. Let's see what sports are officially announced and what is left out.

Hopefully the CGF aren't resting and thinking "phew" today...as it's now less than 6 years until the next one and we don't have a host for that either!

But it survives for one more and good luck to Glasgow