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Can Cadel upstage Alberto and Armstrong?
03 July 2009

Eight Australian riders – Cadel Evans, Michael Rogers, Stuart O’Grady, Mark Renshaw, Heinrich Haussler, Matthew Lloyd, Brett Lancaster, Allan Davis - will tackle the 96th Tour de France.

Le Tour which starts in Monaco with a 15.5km time trial on Saturday 4 July, and finishes in Paris 22 days and 3500 kilometres later will be nothing short of spectacular.

The Astana team featuring 2007 champion Alberto Contador and seven time champion Lance Armstrong is all the talk. [more]




Transformation of London Unmatched: Gosper
26 June 2009
Australian Olympic official Kevan Gosper has heaped praise on London’s Olympic preparations saying the transformation of a wasteland in the city’s east is unmatched [more]

Brauer battles injury for Games berth
23 June 2009
Australian alpine skier Jono Brauer will look to defy a horror injury-run and the prospect of lifelong pain to ensure he lines up for his second Winter Olympics in February. [more]

Aussie triathletes 1-2 in Washington
22 June 2009
Emma Moffatt upstaged her more celebrated training partner, Olympic champion Emma Snowsill, as the Australian pair blitzed the field in the Triathlon World Championship race in Washington on Sunday. [more]

Golf, rugby favoured as sports bid for Olympics
16 June 2009
With seven sports vying for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games, Colin Montgomerie and Annika Sorenstam delivered the message on Monday that winning an Olympic gold medal in golf would be as important as winning a major. [more]

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VALE REG LIBBIS, 10 June 1933 – 25 May 2009

Reg Libbis passed away on Monday 25 May 2009.

Reg was originally from the Albert Park Rowing Club in Melbourne. He rowed in the coxed four that finished a close fourth at Melbourne 1956. He was on the organising committee for the 1964 National Regatta for the Australian Championship and Olympic Trials, held on Lake Burley Griffin.

Reg was a founding member of both the ACT Rowing Association and the Canberra Rowing Club and a leading coach and boat race official. As a builder he, with Club President Bill O'Brien, initiated the construction of Canberra Rowing Club's boatshed at Yarralumla Bay.


2008 Annual Report and Financials
   2008 ACTOC Annual Report and Financials   



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