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Raising The Baa

Source: Landline
Published: Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:00 AEST
Expires: Saturday, November 1, 2008 12:00 AEST

The whole country may be buzzing with anticipation about the Beijing Olympics but there is another group of elite athletes who are training hard to win gold of their own. In the sport of shearing Australians blitzed the competition at the last golden shears and they have high hopes of defending their individual and team world titles in Norway. For the first time in the lead-up to a major competition they have all been able to get together at a training camp.

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Tags: wool, sheep-production, australia

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