Peter Fricker interviewed by Rosalind Hearder for the Sport oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4350815
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Fricker, Peter, 1950-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission is required for research use, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2008
- 4 sound files (ca. 221 min.)
- Series:
- Sport oral history project.
- Summary:
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Professor Peter Fricker talks about his family background; his twin brother; England; his schooling and education in Australia; his interest in music; his parents; volunteering; his career as a doctor and a lecturer at universities; his interest in sports medicine; Sydney University Australian Rules Football Club; Australian Institute of Sport (AIS); the Senate’s Drugs in Sport Inquiry; Australian College of Sports Physicians; being the team doctor with the Canberra Cannons; injury management; the drugs culture of the 1980s; Senator John Black; the establishment of Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA); Don Talbot, Ron Harvey and Rob de Castella at the AIS; his various positions at AIS; sports science; his appointment as AIS Director, 2005; AIS intellectual property; clarity and accountability; the Australian Sports Commission; his managerial style; cultural attitudes of Chinese and Russian coaches; code of conduct for athletes; AIS women cyclists in Germany; AIS medical liaison with the military; the AIS PhD program; research, supplements, immunology and exercise; the development and approval process for scientific innovations; Erythropoietin (EPO); gene doping; World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA); the AIS coaches who have influenced his thinking; governance at AIS; the commercialisation of sport; gender balance in AIS sport programs; public perceptions of the AIS; the significance of sport in Australia; AIS scholarships; managing a career and a family life; his hopes for the future.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 26 February and 26 March 2008, at the Australian Insititute of Sport, Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (10 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 138 leaves)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Hearder, Rosalind, 1975-, interviewer
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