About the authors
- 10 Mar 06, 05:33 PM
Sarah Holt
Sarah has worked for BBC Sport for nearly four years – long enough for the bosses to decide to ship her out to Australia for a few weeks to give them some peace and quiet.
The opportunity to report from the Commonwealth Games means Sarah is visiting Australia for the very first time.
She is worried about getting lost in the Outback and constant Ashes banter but is excited about seeing world-class sport in a city that prides itself on its sporting prowess.
As a failed sprinter, Sarah wants to see the poise, precision and pain of athletics up-close at the MCG.
And, with the Australians in red-hot form, she reckons the Aquatics Centre is also the place to be.
Sarah will be keeping her eyes and ears open for all the Games’ gossip and also wants suggestions from readers of the blog about which sports she should watch and report back on.
Sarah likes the drama of sport – though as a Leicester fan she rarely sees that - but the rest of her life revolves around music, acoustic singer-songwriters and cakes.
Matt Majendie
Matt has been part of the BBC Sport team for four years and will be covering a range of events in Melbourne.
His underachievement on the rugby field at school helped influence his major sporting passion, with the Rugby Sevens among the events he is most keen to follow at the Games.
And some distinctly average family camping holidays across Europe fuelled his other major sporting interest – cycling, courtesy of the Tour de France.
While Down Under, Matt plans to find out all the latest from the key figures in the athletes’ village and will reveal all in the blog.
When not jetting off to Oz, he lives in an up-and-coming (more realistically rough-and-ready) part of south London.
Away from sport, he enjoys travelling, reading and breakdancing. He has also just recovered from breaking his foot, but not while doing any of the above.
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