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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Caitlin Cassidy

A kick, a catch, courage, bliss – what makes a great Australian sporting moment?

Matildas Ellie Carpenter, Caitlin Foord, Sam Kerr and Steph Catley celebrate after Cortnee Vine’s quarter-final-winning penalty goal in the 2023 Women's World Cup
Matildas Ellie Carpenter, Caitlin Foord, Sam Kerr and Steph Catley celebrate after Cortnee Vine’s quarter-final-winning penalty goal in the 2023 Women's World Cup. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

There are few moments in life when you know, there and then, that you will remember them for ever. Getting married is an obvious one. The birth of a child. Standing in the middle of a mosh pit, seeing your favourite band.

Then there is sport, which hovers agonisingly between memorable and better to be forgotten. The legacy of a kick, a catch, a last-breath tie-break writes itself as it transpires. And so it may only be later, dazed and slightly numb, that you realise the gravity of what you were witnessing.

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