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Death at the Cricket World Cup
How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.
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Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics
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The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000
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