Lorraine Lock

With just one month till the Winter Olympics in Sochi (RUS) and the official qualification competitions underway right now in various far-flung winter destinations, Australia’s Olympic selectors are quietly confident that we will be fielding our best team to date; a team with a real chance of being in the top 15 nations medal count.

Australia’s Winter Olympic Team was announced last week ahead of next month’s Olympic Games in Sochi and, with 56 athletes chosen, it’s the largest team ever fielded by this country for the Winter Olympic Games.

In the lead up to the Winter Olympic games in Sochi, Women’s Agenda is bringing you exclusive interviews with some of Australia’s top female athletes vying for gold.

In the lead up to the Winter Olympic games in Sochi, Women’s Agenda is bringing you exclusive interviews with some of Australia’s top female athletes vying for gold.

Belle Brockhoff was the first Australian woman to win a SBX World Cup medal for snowboarding.

Amy Sheehan had a white hot season in the lead up to the Olympics and, after seemingly coming out of nowhere, she won back to back bronze medals for Australia at the Calgary and Breckenridge World Cup events.