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Extra Time: Australian Rules Footballer - Adam Goodes

Extra Time: Australian Rules Footballer - Adam Goodes

The Interview vor 11 Jahren

Australian of the Year, 2014, for his public stand against racism and his sporting talent

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Extra Time is in Melbourne Australia and if there’s one sport
which can uniquely claim to be home-grown it is Australian rules
football, a high octane mixture of running, kicking and sometimes
brutal mid-air collisions.

One of the game’s greatest players is Adam Goodes, who is much
more than just a sportsman. He’s of Aboriginal heritage and is
the 2014 Australian of the Year – an award recognising not only
his sporting talent but his public stand against racism, which
was epitomised in 2013 when during a match at the MCG a teenage
girl called Goodes an ape. He had her kicked out of the stadium
and not for the first time racism in sport and society was at the
centre of national debate In Australia. Now as Adam Goodes nears
the end of his sporting career is he about to enter a new one as
a politician?