Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2015 i Inside Sport

1 Who are the only two cricket umpires to have officiated in over 100 Tests? 2 What was the name of the boat that defended the America’s Cup in Fremantle in 1987? 3 Since 1979, in which sporting event have approximately 60 people died, including 33 spectators? 4 In January 2014, Roger Federer joined which two other male tennis players in winning 1000 singles matches? 5 Beginning with “Y”, what is the highest rank in sumo wrestling? 6 Which three former champions were eliminated in the group stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup? 7 In which country did Daniel Ricciardo win his first ever Formula One Grand Prix? 8 In NBA basketball, each team is allowed how many time-outs in the final quarter? 9 Who was the only Australian…

JACK WHO? A "Hale Storm" struck Australian track and field recently ... in the shape of 16-year-old Jack Hale. The youngster launched himself into the limelight last September when he ran 10.44 over 100 metres to beat the national under-18 record, which had stood for 23 years. He soon followed that up with another personal best of 10.42. He was then clocked at 21.29 for the 200 metres during last December’s 2014 Australian All Schools Championships; no junior Australian male ran faster over 200 metres in 2014. At the same meet he ran a wind-assisted 100 metres in 10.13 – a time that was the world’s fastest recorded under any conditions by a youth athlete. The irony was that both sprints had been until recently mere afterthoughts behind his favourite…

Join us on Twitter @InsideSportmag Like us on facebook www.facebook.com/insidesportmagazine STANDARDS I usually find your magazine articles insightful and interesting, particularly for the wide range of sports covered. However, one thing that really peeves me is inaccuracy in reporting. I refer to the article in the January edition on the “Scoreboard” page under the heading “Next”. The article referred to the 1981 Test match between Australia and West Indies – the first Test in the three-Test series to decide the SIR Frank Worrell Trophy. I should not have to point out that the trophy was actually named just the Frank Worrell Trophy. It was awarded after the 1960-61 series for the first time. Worrell was not knighted until 1964 ... There is another classic mis-reporting error that regularly appears…

“I am not sure where I will be next year. I have always said I will end my career at Barcelona, but as Cristiano said, only God knows the future. Things in football can change overnight.” Leo Messi, hinting at something. “This is just amazing, really beautifully amazing, like a four-minute mile or a sub-two-hour marathon ... It was starting to look like a Hemingway novel or something, an unresolvable quest.” Mountain climber Will Gadd, on the first successful free climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, achieved by Americans Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson. “I didn’t bother to do the math on it, but it’s a lot of ice baths, a lot of training sessions, a lot of cricket balls bowled, there’s a lot of flights. But there’s…

CRICKET It’s pool play at the ICC World Cup, which means marking time between the key games and the minnow encounters. But the big sides have to be wary of a Kenya-like upstart in the first phase, and for the hosts, that might be found in the Australia vs Bangladesh (Feb 21) match at the Gabba. If the Aussies were good enough to lose to Zimbabwe a few months ago, then why not Bangladesh, which swept the Africans 5-0 last November? The next game is a bona fide key one, Australia vs New Zealand (Feb 28). The Kiwis have a track record of going up a level at tournaments, and Brendon McCullum (pictured) and company get an added edge of playing at Eden Park. Australia vs Sri Lanka (Mar 8)…

IT WAS the moment that was supposed to be the breaking of Lewis Hamilton. On the second lap of last year’s Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at the venerable Spa-Francorchamps circuit, Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg committed one of motorsport’s cardinal sins – thy shall not crash into thy teammate – when he ran into the back of Hamilton as the pair squabbled over the lead. Rosberg’s front wing damage was minimal; Hamilton’s left rear tyre was shredded. As he limped back to the pits for new rubber, Hamilton’s championship quest looked done. By the end of the race, where Rosberg recovered to finish second behind Daniel Ricciardo while Hamilton sulked into retirement, Rosberg’s championship advantage over Hamilton had blown out to a season-high 29 points, more than a race win. Then…

as good as it gets a keeper worth considering ho-hum in the bin WHITEWASH TO WHITEWASH BY DANIEL BRETTIG, VIKING, $32.99 Up until 2007, Australian cricket enjoyed a two-decade heyday to match any golden age. What happened next was in many ways more interesting, in the haphazard manner of empires passing their peak. That’s the premise of this thematically clever sweep of Australian cricket (subtitled “Australian cricket’s years of struggle and summer of riches”), bookended by the Ashes series whitewashes of 2007 and 2014. From that last Test match moment of Warne and McGrath to the most recent victory over England, the baggy green has endured all manner of upticks, false dawns and pratfalls, all within a narrative that is still playing out. Author Daniel Brettig, who covers the sport’s…

• In a memorable match in 1987, Canberra, coached jointly by Wayne Bennett and Don Furner, squandered a 22-0 half-time lead to lose 22-30. Afterwards, Furner quipped to reporters: “I coached them for the first half and he [Bennett] coached them for the second.” It was a great line, intended, and received, as a joke. Six years later, a coaching partnership has been assembled at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, but the chances of it producing similar are very slight. comprises Alan Jones, eagerly snapped up from Balmain, a team he took from fifth to 15th in three years, and South Sydney legend Bob McCarthy, who did a commendable job steering Gold Coast a few years ago. Rugby League Pigskin Preview by Daniel Williams • Can anyone ground the Bombers? We…

WINNER Of course, all but two had to lose at some stage in a very Australian Open. But there was plenty to celebrate in another tremendous tournament. No.1 Novak Djokovic defeated a recharged Andy Murray to go 5-0 in Aussie finals and pass Roger Federer and Andre Agassi as the leading men’s champion of the Open era. Murray slumped to 0-4 in Aussie finals but returned to No.4. For all the changing-of-the-guard narrative, the Big Four was back on top by the end of the Open. Serena Williams went even better than the Djoker, an AO six-pack and grand slam No.19 elevating the 33-year-old past Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on the legend tally. The No.1 continued her dominance over No.2 Maria Sharapova to 16-straight shellackings and an 11th year.…

AUSTRALIA’S LATEST WORLDBEATERS Laura Peel is the world aerial skiing champion after winning the gold medal at the freestyle skiing world championships in Austria last month. The 25-year-old from Canberra is Australia’s first gold medallist in an aerial world championship event since Alisa Camplin 12 years ago. To win, she performed a triple-twisting double somersault, a new trick in her armoury. The former gymnast had finished seventh at the Sochi Olympics last year. Scotty James is the snowboard halfpipe world champion after also winning in Austria. The 20-year-old from Melbourne scored 91.50 points on his first run of the final; his second and final run was used as a victory lap, including high-fives with fans. James has competed in the past two Winter Olympic Games but the victory in Kreischberg…

Interesting times in Formula One: big-name drivers on the move, a big-name make back in the fold and an Aussie out to show he can become the biggest name of all in the sport. But interesting times can also mean peril – a couple of teams are in danger of folding, and the Korean GP fell off the schedule. And if last year’s two-man/one-team dominance continues, expect some grumbling from the fans to be heard. But hey, at least those ugly nose designs are gone! SAFE BET Reigning champ Lewis Hamilton is justifiably short-priced, and his dad reckons he could have the title wrapped by mid-year. Everything seems set for Hamilton, and the only safer bet to be found this season is his team, as Mercedes is paying $1.20 for…

1 GETTING OUT OF OCEANIA AND INTO THE ASIAN CONFEDERATION WAS THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO AUSTRALIAN SOCCER. Australia’s acceptance into the Asian federation looked like a coup when it happened back in 2006. And that’s because it was. How did it even happen? Whatever strings got pulled there (or chains yanked ... hello, Mr Lowy?) have proved a wonderful boon for the game, as we joined a highly competitive region with standards approximating our own (no more 31-nil defeats of teams like American Samoa). This doesn’t just go for the Socceroos – it applies equally to our junior ranks, in men’s and women’s. It means regular fixes of quality international competition, such as we have just seen in this tournament. Hell, we even start trying to qualify for…

If you’ve been training with us for the last six months, you’ll be stronger, faster and lighter on your feet – and hands! All these improvements will be measurable – and you’ll have plotted your own progress. But there’s another dimension to CrossFit – and that’s the CrossFit Games. The Games bring together athletes from around the planet to decide the World’s Fittest Man and Woman. Fancy putting yourself to the test? That process all begins this month with The Open. The Open is your chance to measure yourself against very best in the game. If you make the top 30, you get to compete at this year’s Regionals in Wollongong in May. The very best there get to represent Australia at the World CrossFit Games in the US in…

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I once knew a guy named Art, a former work colleague and a pretty good dude considering he didn’t follow sports (his thing was interior design). But being the collegial fellow he was, Art was in the office’s footy tipping comp. And damned if he didn’t win the whole thing two out of three years ... and a this-close runner-up in the other. The sharps around the office, the ones who sweated injury ins-and-outs and obsessed over teams’ away records in wet weather on five days’ rest, badgered him for the method to his tips. Was he a closet fan? Did he outsource to some unseen stats guru? Was he picking on the basis of which mascot would win in a fight? Art responded calmly, always calmly: “I look at…