The Winter Olympic Games kicked off over the weekend in Beijing in China. Politics will be bubbling beneath the surface, with Russian President Vladimir Putin attending the Games alongside Chinese host Xi Jinping, while western countries boycott the Games over China’s human rights record. Here are the two largest non-Western superpowers posing together on the world stage.

We want to focus on the action on the snow and ice. Steven Bradbury won Australia’s first Olympic gold medal at the Salt Lake City games in 2002. His come from behind win, placed his name forever in Australian history.

When Australians think of the Winter Olympics, we think of one name….Steven Bradbury. We learn in this episode of the Briefing...it was no fluke.

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Australia's first Winter Olympic gold medallist, Steven Bradbury