They have Olympics in Winter now?

Much to her horror, LMK is discovering that as a nation, Australia cares not at all for the Winter Olympics. It's hard to feel enthused about sports that we don't play, and snow that we never have, and also to cheer on the French. Give us a cricket pitch, or a tennis court, a pool, an ocean, some temperatures above zero, and we'll compete at an adequate level and lose to the Americans. But Winter sports are not our forte.

This brings me to the heroic tale of Australia's greatest ever Winter Olympian. He's a king among men, a mighty competitor and legend to many. He is Steven Bradbury.

Picture this: Salt Lake City, 2002. It looked as though Australia would never win a gold medal at any of these silly Winter games - mostly because we were crap, and partly because we didn't care. Then came Steven. He was in the final of the 1000m speed skater thingy (a feat he only achieved because he managed to finish the heat) - and let's face it, no one knew or cared. But then every other competitor on the track crashed into each other and fell over, and Steven skated calmly over the finish line from last place, as a Gold Medal Winner.

If you want the story of our first ever Winter Olympic medal, it was a Bronze in a similar event in 1994, and we won it because Canada fell over. Steven Bradbury was in that team, too.

Fear not, LMK. The Commonwealth Games are nearly upon us. Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi oi oi!