Charles Allen London England has won 58 gold medals at the Commonwealth Games (England's record tally shows young the way ahead, Sport, 4 August).
As well as being a decorated AFL player, winning two Brownlow Medals and two premierships, 34-year-old Goodes has been actively involved in Indigenous sporting and community programs, and has championed the fight against racism both on and off the sporting field.
The Young Australian of 2014 is 21 year old Jacqueline Freney, a paralympic swimmer who won an impressive eight gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, the most of any Paralympian in a single games.
Congratulations on your recent haul of gold medals!
It will also be an Olympic year, after 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, and Oman hopes its crews will qualify for the dinghy and wind-surfing events, a stepping stone on the way to its first medals in 2024.
They're trying to save their legs for the run, as his Bevan Doherty of New Zealand, who has form for picking up medals in the Olympics.
Miller, an Army veteran whose chest was festooned with medals, looked education undersecretary Ted Mitchell in the eye and asked, "Do you have any honor and dignity?" Despite mounting evidence of malfeasance at the Corinthian chain and various criminal probes and lawsuits, over half a million students remain on the hook.
No. I've won medals as a result.
Jordan, known as Bernie, travelled to D-day events in Normandy wearing his war medals and grey mac.
Facts and figures do not make a war and neither do fat Field Marshals with medals for their patriotic services (which include moving pins around on a map all day and launching the odd suicide mission).
To meet its medals target, Oman is counting on a core group of budding women sailors, but also on a very thorough talent-spotting system.
