Olympic Winter Institute athletes and Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders Lydia Lassila, Alex Pullin, Joh Shaw and Katya Crema helped kick off the 2010 ski season at Mt Buller over the weekend.
All four Vancouver Olympians were guests at the OWI’s Masquerade Cocktail Party on Sunday evening, a fundraiser for the Institute, and also took part in other events where they were happy to tell the story of their Olympic experiences and their plans for the future.
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Deputy Chairman of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia Dean Gosper is the latest Australian to win a key position in global sport.
Gosper, son of International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Kevan Gosper, and President of Ski & Snowboard Australia, has been elected to the International Ski Federation (FIS) Council which controls skiing and snowboarding worldwide. [more]
The success of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympics teams was celebrated in Sydney over the weekend, at a welcome home function hosted by the Australian Olympic Committee.
The night featured speeches from Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates, Vancouver Olympic Team Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman and Gold Medallist Lydia Lassila. [more]