Other Sporting Goals

After a believably underwhelming winter Olympic campaign from the Australians, Team QUON have realised their true calling lies in winter sports. Given the lack lustre performance and generally low attendance rates from Australian Athletes across the Sochi games, Team QUON have decided to step up and fill the places & medal tally in the up coming 2018 South Korean games. You heard it here first.

Team QUON's first pre Winter Olympic outing will be Mt Hotham Pub 2 Pub x-country ski race. This will be a selection race for cross country skiing and biathlon. Uncle Stompy will host the shooting component of the biathlon try outs separately.

ACTAB is currently taking bets on the Hotham pub 2 pub. Odds are as Follows:

Confirmed Starters

Randywick:   $1.50                  - His big mouth/lungs may in fact come in handy for this notoriously   gruelling sport. He also does crossfit, so much functional fitness.

AB:                $2.00                  - Ring in, but previous skiing experience the QUON's own telemarking champion Br Brutus will serve him well.

Br Mary:        $5.00                 - "Thomo can do it so it cant be that hard". This attitude ensures the big man will win the 1km  prime. Snot bubbles and mushroom clouds likely at the 1.2km mark.

Smup:            $10.00               - Smups long limbs, proven sporting ability & prowess, roller skiing experience and copious amounts of free time to train for the event will all prove more hindrance than help.

Piece Of        $1.50                 - Piece Of is "KEEN". He is currently paying $1.50 for a DNS and will be pulling odds of around 50:1 to start and 100:1 to get the win.

NON Confirmed starters

Br Brutus:      $5.00                 - His profile pic is telemarking you know.

Baby J            $6.00                 - Currently in red hot form over the other side of the globe. Can he hold form (and be in the country) come August? Only time will tell.

The QM (That's Carl Fellows, the ginger on the cervelo, rides sporadically, has been a little long in the face lately for anyone who's confused about who this is)
                       $12.00                - On the verge of a second middle life crisis, a change in endurance sports could be just what the doctor ordered. Luckily no time will need to be spent on perfecting technique in the sport either.

The phantom  $18.00              - His pursuit of "Other Sporting Goals" in 2014 ensures that he is definitely a contender. Given that he hasn't written a poem or worked out how to use the blog could seriously limit his aspirations of actually remaining in the QUON come August.