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Premium Content Subscriber only IF anyone deserves to represent Australia, it s tireless, highly motivated Ipswich long distance athlete Clay Dawson. He has come so close but is still so far from his ultimate goal. Having won the 2019 Australian 100km race in Wangaratta, Dawson dared to dream of lining up for Australia at the world titles in The Netherlands. The Karalee runner was on the verge of achieving that ambition last year before COVID struck. His hopes of taking his supportive wife Michelle and young family overseas were shattered. As someone approaching 40 who enjoys training with rapidly emerging middle distance runner Jude Thomas, Dawson summed up his predicament perfectly. ....
John Bisset/Stuff The San Aotea II, pictured leaving Timaru s port in early June, berthed back in Timaru in August 2020. A rescue and a retrieval featured prominently in June’s news coverage out of South Canterbury, writes Doug Sail in the sixth instalment of our series looking back on the year that was. Sanford deep-water fleet manager Darryn Shaw said the trip to the South Georgia Islands was necessary because of the impact of Covid-19, which had made it difficult to get people out of the Falkland Islands. ‘‘Normally we would bring our people back by air, via South America, but that is not possible at this time with borders closed into that region,’’ Shaw said. ....