The Gold Coast is fast establishing itself as the mature age sports capital of Australia. That’s according to the organisers of the biennial Pan Pacific Masters Games – Australia’s biggest and the world’s largest biennial Masters Games – who expect over 12,000 men and women over the age of 30 to be in the city next November for the ninth edition of the Games.
You know you’re ready to compete in the Pan Pacific Masters Games if you were one of those kids who ran home from school in your Bata Scout or Bata Ponytail shoes, threw your homework in the corner, grabbed a cheese and Vegemite sandwich and jumped in a beanbag and waited for the TV to warm up to watch any of these classic shows: