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Sally Carbon at five, in 1973, was asked to shift to Germany, sans parents, to join the East German gymnastics movement. After a resounding 'no' from her parents she enjoyed ballet through to being asked to join the Australia Ballet in Sydney at age 13. At the same time, she was in the West Australian junior athletics team and the under 16 (field) hockey team. The team sport of hockey won out through to success playing hockey for the Australian senior team from 1987--- getting a goal with her first touch of the ball, and a hat-trick in that first game against Korea---exactly one year before the Seoul Olympics. She continued for nine years playing for Australia for 125 internationals, was in the Australian Institute of Sport for 11 years, we ...more

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Sally Carbon Locking together 20 years of high performance sport, with 20 years of helping other athletes to achieve (as a mentor), plus raising $50 million per ye…moreLocking together 20 years of high performance sport, with 20 years of helping other athletes to achieve (as a mentor), plus raising $50 million per year to support Australian athletes, plus parenting our own little athletes, gives you a great deal of fodder to write a collection of books. I read a lot of 'inspiration' books and a little selective romance (eg Black Dagger Brotherhood) and watch many sporting documentaries. I recall watching Netflix 'Fittest on Earth' (2017). I was hooked into the 'observer effect' realising that these 'strange' athletes were athletes completely invested in being brilliant. Plus, I was lavishing lapping up the poetic words used by four narrators of the documentary. They fused fiction and non-fiction like a new-age artform.

Its this pseudo fictional, pseudo factual style I used to create TEAM MATES and TEAM PURSUIT. I recall the 'Fittest on Earth' line 'these athletes deliberately choose crazy'. And oh my gosh, its so true. The best athletes in the world choose crazy. You have to choose to go into a psychological zone not recommended, and this is why athletes have trouble fitting into a more socially pattern during and after their sporting eras.

**Throw in a side-serve of 'Last Chance U' and Australian football (AFL) on TV, and I'm a happy lady.

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Sally Carbon Truth be told, I'm having a dig at society. I started writing Australian Team Series because I was becoming increasing annoyed at societies misinterpr…moreTruth be told, I'm having a dig at society. I started writing Australian Team Series because I was becoming increasing annoyed at societies misinterpretation of sportspeople. We want our athletes to be different, to be the best, and to be risk takers...on the field. And then, we are asking them to faultless, giving and calm...off of it. Unfortunately the second side of this argument is winning out in our society where opinions are making and breaking it. We are dulling down a sportsperson's ability to succeed on the field. We are, and will continue, to get an average sporting outcome, because we are watering down the possibility to be brilliant. This is why I was inspired to write this series. I wanted to get readers to completely and utterly sit within an athletes mind, body and soul and have empathy for what they're going through.

This issue is not just having impact in high performance sport. We're creating the same type of conundrum in the workforce and within our education systems. 'Stick to the rules' we say, then, in the next breath, we inspire with 'dare, its okay to be different, have a go'. But jeepers, if you do that, we'll tell you how 'bad' you've been---just you wait.

Its this message I have used to structure TEAM MATES as well. I deliberately didn't use a romance formula (90 000 words, five sex scenes, third person, boy meets girls, have a problem, solve the problem). I actually cant stand this formula because it isn't real to me. I NEED REAL. I NEED WARTS AND ALL REFLECTION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE. Through sport I've been taught to cope with real. Real is often slow and fatiguing, real is happy, real is heart breaking, and real can be bloody fantastic. But I will not pretend and hide from this real world. (less)

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As you can probably tell, I'm a sucker for the observer effect in non-fiction and fictional storytelling. Give me Netflix original documentaries such as Last Chance U and Fittest on Earth, and the gob-smacking, startling revelations banged-out in Icarus, and I'm a happy and obsessed lady. As well as the self-reflexive and inspiring qualities these shows give out in waves, they're also very interes Read more of this blog post »

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“Last year, I changed from an allround good, thoughtful bloke to one with a tad more drive. This year, during phase B of the changes, I’ve come out of my off-season cocoon as a dead-set aggressive wanker. Both stages of this metamorphosis can be attributed to the provocateur Ms Leigh. God help us if I ever get to phase C. It’s bound to be tragic. I’ve never felt this lethal in my life. Jerome Kremers, book 2, TEAM PURSUIT”
― Sally Carbon, Team Pursuit

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“We live together in the amphitheatre of high-performing sport. We love. We hate. We contest. We cuddle. But this here is street-level. We’re just two blokes jostling for power. I didn’t think I wanted the rank. I’ve been his beloved underling for eight years. He’s shared everything with me: his captaincy, his family life, and even, fuck, his wife. But in the last 20 minutes, I’ve taken over from him without consultation, almost without a thought. I just took the lightsabre out of his hand. I may as well have taken his number-five jumper and burned it on the cross, too. Jerome Kremers, book 2, TEAM PURSUIT”
― Sally Carbon, Team Pursuit

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“Right then, that very second, with her face breaking with excitement, her eyes almost shut with cheekiness, her magnificent pink lips only centimetres away and her body rocking with bliss from her right leg to her left, I take half a step forward, hold two cups high above her head, invade her space, push her to the wall with my chest and kiss her as genuinely as Crocodile Dundee took on New York. And that was some serious genuine. How can we be mates and kiss like this? Jerome Kremers, book 1, TEAM MATES”
― Sally Carbon, Team Mates

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“Yes, I am holding this powerful lady to my more powerful body. We're glued at our feet, thighs, abs and chest. My large shoulders are acting in full protection mode. I'm still sporting a rock-hard boner, which is sandwiched and slammed upright between us. That appears insignificant to her, luckily. Well, we respect that our bodies kick in suitably when needed. Welcome to the world of athletics. Jerome Kremers, book 1, TEAM MATES”
― Sally Carbon, Team Mates

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“As she screams her words, she slaps me like the worldchampion surf lifesaver she is, with full hip rotation and follow-through. Magnificent core strength. Textbook technique. Open hand to cheekbone, cheek, and jaw. Nope, she couldn’t have hit me better. Ten out of ten, say the judges. The crowd cheers. Deuce, no make that game to Chelsea. The nose—that’s where I feel it. It’s just like at the beach when a dumping wave strikes with the power of Aquaman, causing salt water to dance, prance, and gurgle in and out of the nostrils. I feel the pressure of that slap like that wave is holding me down for seconds and seconds. I see this weird combination of circling stars. Under pressure such as this, my core values are wobbling. I could whack her right across the chops. I’m livid. That’s how I feel. In my eyes, she’s a piece of shit right at this point. A fake. A liar. A fucking pretender. I always knew she was hiding something. She was always too damn good to be true. That’s why she does so much for the community: because she’s rotten to the core. No. I fucking love her way more than I can cope with. Jerome Kremers, book 2, TEAM PURSUIT.”
― Sally Carbon, Team Pursuit

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