Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Youth and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

On indulgence, I would just like to associate the opposition with the comments of the Prime Minister and to congratulate Lydia Lassila on her outstanding effort in winning gold at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This follows on from her sensational style in her 2009 World Cup success and that is crowned by her now realising her childhood ambition of becoming an Olympic champion. It is a typically gutsy effort from Lydia Lassila, whose first jump had the highest degree of difficulty in the first round. At only 28, she continues a long dynasty of female freestyle skiing champions in Australia, such as Kirstie Marshall, Jacqui Cooper and Alisa Camplin. The opposition joins in congratulating her and the team.

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