A lifetime of hard work, sacrifice and dedication had culminated in the realisation of a childhood dream, and Jakara Anthony was not quite ready to call it a day. “It’s 5am here and I have not been to bed yet, so it has been a big night,” Australia’s latest Olympic hero said, hours after winning her country’s first gold medal of the Beijing Games.
Her barnstorming victory in the women’s moguls wrote a new chapter in the annals of the country’s sporting history, as the 23-year-old blitzed the rest of the field over two days of competition to break Australia’s 12-year Winter Games gold medal drought.
