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- Description: If you use a magnifying glass, you can just make out me shaking hands with the Secretary General of FISA, John Boultbee, as Alison and I recieve our Gold medal for winning the women's pair event in the World Rowing Championships (Junior). Germany won silver, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (post USSR) won bronze. August 1992.
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- Description: With swimmer Daniel Kowalski at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
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6 bleary eyed South Australians leaving Adelaide very early in the morning for Switzerland and the start of our 10 week campaign in Europe in the lead up to the World Championships in Roudnice, Czech Republic, 1993. The lightweight mens 4- achieved a 4th place, whilst Alison and I won a Silver medal.
From left, Andrew Stunnell, Alison Davies, Ned Draydon, James Seppelt, Tory toogood, with Ben Reece in front.
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- Description: Tory and Alison wearing matching Italian team rowing suits (swapped the previous year at the World Junior Championships), enjoying a beautiful day on Sursee (the lake). July 1993.
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- Description: The Australian Women's 4 at Lucerne, Switzerland in 1994, after winning a silver medal in the European Championships. Left to Right: Tory Toogood, Kate Slatter, Megan Still and Alison Davies.
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- Description: Fixing the boat rigging, 1994, Canada. Silver medal around my neck.
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The Australian Women's Eight squad in new Olympic Team uniform, before the official team welcome dinner in Athens, Georgia. July 1996.
From left: Bronwyn Thompson, Carmen Klomp, Alison Davies, Tory Toogood, Amy Safe, Anna Ozolins, Angela Holbeck, Karina Wieland, Gina Douglas, Jenny Luff.
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- Description: The 1994 Australian Womens 4-, a self timed photo taken after our Commonwealth regatta Silver medal in London, Ontario. From left, Tory, Kate Slatter, Megan Still and Alison Davies.
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- Description: A newspaper photo taken of the Australian Womens eight when in Adelaide, training at West Lakes for a camp in early 1995, at dawn.
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In the rowing area during the Atlanta Olympics, Lake Lanier, 1996.
Gina, Alison, Karina, Tory and Jenny
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The South Australian Olympic Rowers before the welcome home parade September 1996.
Amy Safe, Alison Davies, Anna Ozolins, David Belcher, Kate Slatter, Sally Newmarch, Carmen Klomp and Tory Toogood
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The Cancer Council came out this week and announced that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, and that alcohol should be considered to be as carcinogenic as smoking and asbestos are. As well as being highly associated with throat and mouth cancers, it is now found to correlate highly with breast and bowel cancers. Perhaps it should not be so surprising that a substance that can so alter mood and ability, even at very mild levels should turn out to be in fact, not good for us.
This story, an editorial from the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this year has some amazing targets - it ties in with our look at sitting and health, and is about developing healthcare systems that support exercise - recognise it as being as vital a measure of our health as is blood sugar levels or blood pressure. It recommends 150 minutes of physical activity per week for adults as a minimum. 30 mins on 5 days. For children, it is 420 mins / week - 60 minutes every day. How close are you?
This is another article on inactivity / obesity and health from Sports Medicine Australia, highlighting the link between an inactive childhood and a lifetime of battling depression. It is food for thought (!) these days where there seems to be much paranoia about safety of children away from their parents watchful eyes, and therefore a tendency to want to keep them closely under watch instead of encouraging more activity and indeed risk taking behaviours. The ability to judge situations for risk and to be able to take appropriate risks builds self esteem and resilience. Not much to do with bowel cancer awareness, but close to my heart as well.
Another article on sitting
This one is in really simple terms - if you walk 30 mins (as recommended) and sleep 8 hours, most of us still have 15.5 hours per day not moving. You cannot sit all day behind a screen, then drive your car and sit and watch tv with out it being bad for you. A good read.