The women’s World Cup is being staged in New Zealand and Australia — the world’s sports-fondest, sports-maddest country, Chuck Culpepper writes.
More acutely, the country, which is co-hosting the event with New Zealand, will follow the plight of Kerr’s injured calf among all the things it’s following, such that Will Swanton in the Weekend Australian likened it to David Beckham’s metatarsal in England before the 2002 World Cup. “Kerr’s calf has become David Beckham’s foot,” Swanton wrote, soon adding, “Now we will be watching every step Kerr takes and every move she makes for the foreseeable future.
Then, here in this dreamy place to be a novice fan, there’s the National Rugby League with the Penrith Panthers and Brisbane Broncos up top of the ladder. There’s cricket’s 141-year-old Ashes tussle, between Australia and England as always, carrying on in England even as enthusiasm seems mild. Up in Japan in the pool, Aussie marvel Ariarne Titmus, still 22 after all this time,while representing her medals-per-capita juggernaut of a homeland. Horse racing still looks abundant.
The sports heritage, of course, lurks everywhere. The stadium in which the Matildas played Ireland would be the same one in which the Aboriginal Australian Cathy Freeman electrified a country from Lane 6 in the 400 meters at the 2000 Olympics, the same Freeman who surprise-visited the Matildas pre-World Cup. “I don’t really get star-struck,” Kerr said, “but when Cathy walked in the room, I was pretty star-struck, to be honest, because she has such a presence.
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