In a major milestone for Australian sport, the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) is proud to have joined forces with the countrys peak Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games sporting organisations, the AIS and other State/Territory Institutes and Academies of Sport to launch a national strategy aimed at building success towards Brisbane 2032 and beyond.
If they awarded Olympic medals for guts, they would have handed Lydia Lassila the full set gold, silver and bronze at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Balancing life as an elite sportsperson as well as completing your final year of school is already hard enough, and for Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) scholarship holder Kipp Smith, a global pandemic made things even more challenging.
VIS lead sport scientist, Sylvie Withers, whose parents were Olympic rowers, was training to qualify for the Australian Rowing Team before she realised that she wouldnt make it to the Olympics. It was then that she decided to help others achieve their Olympics aspirations.