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Athens 2004 - This is the seventh of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
12 July 2016
It only seems like yesterday that I travelled to Athens for the 2004 Summer Games. I touched down and stepped out into the seasonal warmth of a glorious 30˚C. Read more »
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Sydney 2000 - This is the sixth of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
2 July 2016
My last report here was from Barcelona 1992. I did not attend the Atlanta, USA, Olympics of 2000. Instead, bad luck (I don’t think so!), I was instead on assignment in South Africa on one of the great All Black rugby tours! Read more »
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One of Olympic history's most symbolic races; Barcelona 1992
Barcelona 1992 - This is the 5th of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
23 June 2016
I tell you the first week of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games was a nightmare to live through. No, it wasn’t because we had a lousy hotel, or the traffic was too tough, or there were horror boycotts to contend with. Read more »
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The goodbye letter written in Seoul. We have shifted house since then. The address no longer applies.
Seoul 1988 - This is the 4th of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
18 June 2016
When I think back to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, a number of images jump immediately from my old memory bank. Yes there were crowded streets of the great Korean city and locals staring at us visitors. Probably because of our pale faces and funny freckles. Read more »
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Los Angeles 1984 - This is the 3rd of nine Summer Olympic Games Keith Quinn has attended
6 June 2016
*Your website editor has been chosen to commentate on rugby's return to the Summer Olympic Programme, in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His commentaries on the sevens will be part of the host broadcaster coverage for OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Service) the official broadcast TV outlet of the IOC. This will be my tenth Summer Olympic Games. I am publishing here my personal stories and memories of the previous nine Games I have been to.* Read more »
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My favourite picture of Meads in action. After he was kicked in the head v France in Paris in 1967, he returned to the field with bandaged head to get the 'baaaastard' who did it!
Sir Colin Meads Turns 80 years old in 2016; born 3rd June 1936 - and still going strong.
2 June 2016
It still reads very proudly; Meads played for his country over a span of 15 seasons; No one played longer. His full record of first-class rugby is listed here. Read more »
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Every day there is Rugby History 2 November 1991
Click to show Australia won the second Rugby World Cup final in London.
A tight game saw Nick Farr-Jones's team beat England by 12-6. Well played the Wallabies!
A-Z of Rugby
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GADNEY, CYRIL
The most accomplished referee of the 1930s who later became a powerful administrator of the game at an international level.
Gadney took charge of 15 internationals and six Oxford-Cambridge matches between 1936 and 1948. Among the major games he refereed were the New Zealand touring team of 1935–36 against Scotland and against Wales; France v Australia in 1948, and no fewer than 10 Five Nations games.
He later became a president of the Rugby Football Union and one of England’s representatives on the International Rugby Board (1965–71).
Gadney was a specialist in rugby law and played a major part in the rewriting of the rugby law book to change the wording from out-moded English to a concise, more modern version. He also wrote the updated version of The History of the Laws of Rugby sion of The History of the Laws of Rugby Football in 1972.
Cyril’s brother Bernard was also an accomplished player, who appeared 14 times (nine as captain) for England as a scrumhalf between 1932 and 1938.
10 Questions to well known sporting people
Today's KQ Rugby Quiz
What was different about the British Columbian winger Denny Veitch who played against the British and Irish Lions in Vancouver in 1966?
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