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hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes! Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by. There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side - There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound? Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

~ Henry Lawson

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Jana sorry about being the drama queen

"JANA Rawlinson has apologised for being a "drama queen" at the Athens Olympics.

The world 400m hurdle champion returned to Sydney this morning, five days after announcing she had pulled out of the Beijing Games because of injury, and said she wanted none of the drama that surrounded her knee operation four years ago.

"I apologise for the circus that was created ... I was a bit of a drama queen in Athens," she told reporters at Sydney Airport."

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I like the traditional idea behind sport, the old Olympian ethos of self-betterment and the pursuit of physical excellence in a certain field. Hell, I've even been involved in a fair of sport in my time. But the way professional sport is headed is a path that I find distasteful, disrespectful and fleeting.

Its increasingly going to way of ego worship: Excessive individualism has infected the professional sporting world. It's increasingly all about the 'star' rather than the process, the effort, the achievement.

What a sports man or woman is wearing seems to be the new fascination, drug use is positively rampant and the on field/on court antics of figureheads is getting more and more inflated, ridiculous and un-sporting. Used tags: