08 August

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Friday, 08 August
8.00pm

To complement the opening of the Beijing Olympics Collectors does sport. Niccole Warren checks out the National Sports Museum at the MCG. Charles Leski, an auctioneer who specialises in sporting memorabilia, passes on some excellent tips about what is valuable and what isn't in the vast array of sporting memories.

Gordon Brown's Roving Eye lights up when he finds a chance to offer some 'expert' golfing advice to a 'novice' called Peter Thomson. Avid Gold Coast surfer Carl Tanner has one of the largest collections of surfboards in Australia, if not the world. He has more than 300 boards ranging from a rare 1915 Duke Kahanamoku design, to one with its own built-in jet engine.

'Young' Bill Youd has just turned 60. He has put together an enormous collection of trophies, sashes, prizes and of course axes, during his long and illustrious career as a competitive axeman. He won at least ten World Tree Felling championships at Sydney's Royal Easter Show where he still competes in veteran events. Under the Hammer is a pair of 1825 silver wine coasters that even Adrian likes, but it's Gordon who wins gold again while Andy's clue about the Mystery Object is hardly sporting.

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