Australia at the Winter Olympics
Australia first competed in the Winter Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and has participated in every games since, with the exception of the 1948 Games in St. Moritz.
Short track speed skater Mark McNee, third from left at the 2004 World Cup in Saguenay. His uniform features the green and gold and the Southern Cross
Kiandra, NSW, in 1900. Skiing in Australia began at Kiandra around 1861.
Torah Bright, the winner of the women's halfpipe snowboarding in 2010.
David Morris, Australia's first male aerial freestyle skier at Olympic level.
Skeleton sport in Australia
Australia created a female team in the sport of skeleton in the hope of winning a medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Physiologists Dr David Martin and Dr Angus Ross looked at a list of winter sports. They regarded the women's division of the sport as not currently being strongly competitive, therefore athletes in non-winter sports who possess the traits that would make a good skeleton athlete could win a medal.
A practice skeleton sled with wheels underneath
A practice skeleton without wheels - only used when the athlete is on a treadmill