23 - 29 April 2013 Issue: 460
LONDON LOVING
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SOUNDS OF AUSTRALIA
CROSSING THE CHANNEL
Paul Kelly takes us home
Aussie life on the Channel Islands
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AUSSIE TRIUMPHS IN LONDON MARATHON
A NEW training regime adopted after the 2012 Paralympics has helped Kurt Fearnley outsprint his wheelchair racing rivals and claim victory at the London Marathon. The Australian, who won silver and bronze at the London Games, timed his sprint perfectly on Sunday to take the victory outside Buckingham Palace. “I realised last year that at the last 300m if someone’s got that extra bit of power up their sleeve they beat you every time,” Fearnley told AAP after winning in 1:31:29. “It doesn’t really matter how many kilometres you’ve got under your belt you’ve just got to be powerful enough to hit the speed you need to win.” Fearnley’s new regime has seen him spend more time in the gym and less on the road. And it’s possible he’s going to get even quicker. “We are only a third of the way through to the end result, which will be New York in November,” he said on Sunday. “See how I go then.” Fearnley, 32, tucked in behind race favourite David Weir from Great Britain over the final few kilometres. He fought hard to gain the inside line out of the last corner before powering past Weir up The Mall. Switzerland’s Marcel Hug got up for second with Ernst van Dyk from South Africa in third. Weir, bidding for a record seventh title, ended fifth. “I didn’t see myself winning that race until the last 10 metres,” Fearnley told the winners’ press conference. “I hid a lot from the guys. In the Games I spent a lot of time out front
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and it taxed me a little. “This time it was just about conserving and hiding amongst that big pack and then taking the opportunity when it came.” Canadian Josh Cassidy raged at organisers after he collided with
Tiki Gelana as the wheelchair racers passed the able-bodied elite women. Gelana, the Olympic champion, had cut left across the road to reach a drink station. Cassidy said the wheelchairs should start before the women to make the
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race safer. Fearnley agreed with him. “We’ve thought it for years mate,” he said when quizzed on the incident.
Aussie diggers to race Prince Harry
Two Australian soldiers will take part in a charity expedition across the Antarctic to the South Pole with Prince Harry later this year to raise money for wounded soldiers. Private Heath Jamieson and Corporal Seamus Donaghue, who have overcome injuries sustained in Afghanistan, have been chosen to join Team Commonwealth on the South Pole Allied Challenge. With fellow soldiers from Canada they will compete against teams from the USA and the United Kingdom to reach the South Pole unassisted. Walking with the Wounded charity patron Prince Harry announced the teams in London on Friday, before taking up an invitation from expedition leader Inge Solheim to join the UK team on the trek in December. Prince Harry paid tribute to Servicemen and women and said the charity allowed wounded soldiers to “meet challenge headon and overcome it and inspire others to do the same.” The trek is a partnership with Australian charity Solider On, and money raised will go towards providing rehabilitation services to wounded soldiers. Private Heath Jamieson, who ...continued on p3
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