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Australian curlers Tahli Gill, left, and Dean Hewitt pose for a photo during a training session at the Canmore Golf & Curling Club in Canmore, Alberta, on Jan. 6, 2022. Gill and Hewitt are competing at the Winter Games in Beijing as the first Australian team to ever qualify for an Olympics. (Chris Hocking/Olympic Winter Institute of Australia via AP)

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Australia's first Olympic curlers swap sunshine for sweeping
By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press
Mon,01/31/22-9:06PM , 161 Reads
SYDNEY (AP) — In a sunburned country, with no ice to call their own, Australian curlers Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt were left to practice their sport’s legendary sweeping in the most ironic of places: Their kitchens.
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A man wearing a mask is seen walking in a Melbourne park as Melbourne goes into Stage 4 Lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The coronavirus variant has swept across Australia despite its high vaccination rate and strict border policies that kept the country largely sealed off from the world for almost two years. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, File)

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Amid Djokovic backlash, Australia grapples with omicron wave
By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press
Wed,01/12/22-1:41AM , 120 Reads
SYDNEY (AP) — Like millions of others in the most locked-down place on the planet, Melbourne resident Rav Thomas dutifully spent 262 days confined to his home as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. He got vaccinated. And the single father of two found ways to pay the bills as Melbourne’s lockdowns battered his entertainment and events company.
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