Matt Shervington

female cohort and and the women will dominate or there'll be a particular event like pole vault which will have a really good coach that might lead to three or four athletes over a generation that will do well or the hurdles or the sprints or whatever it is right now we have such a mixed mixed bag of champions so

We've got Nicola Ollis-Lagers and Eleanor Patterson in the high jump.

And just between the two of them, they're, you know, world champions, world medalists and contenders at the Olympic Games.

We've also got Nina Kennedy, of course, who is a world champion Olympic champion in the pole vault.

We've got the middle distance is just outrageous right now with Jess Hull, just setting the world on fire in pretty much everything she turns her mind to at the moment.

The 1500, of course, her pet event, unbelievable.

But the other one is Cam Myers, 19 years of age, and is just a middle distance freak as well.

I was watching him run the 1500 over the weekend, and it's like it's effortless.

Like he just...

He puts zero effort in and just rolls around the track so easily.

But then he can put a turn of pace on if he needs to as well.

He's so switched on, so focused.

And then you've got Matt Denny throwing discus.

You know, he's on the precipice of breaking a world record, not an Australian record, a world record and putting himself in, you know, Commonwealth Games, you know, champion contention.

But then once LA rolls around, he could be on top of the podium after getting bronze in Paris.

I love it.

There's so much excitement around this sport, which...

I think it's fair to say he's gone through troughs and various waves in Australia across the journey.

And, you know, I remember watching you in the 2000 Olympics and I remember clearly Cathy as well.

But I'm not sure many younger sports fans have seen an exciting era like we're about to embark on now.