The Gold Coast Bulletin

WHETTING APPETITE

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IF the weekend was even a small taste of what a Commonweal­th Games might feel like then we’re in for a treat come April.

The Gold Coast Suns were triumphant at home for Gary Ablett’s 300th game; 25,000 people took part in races as part of the Gold Coast Airport Marathon; and in Brisbane an unheralded Queensland­er beat one of the era’s greatest boxers to become WBO welterweig­ht world champion.

And it seems all three events ran about as well as the organisers could have hoped.

South East Queensland has set a new benchmark in hosting major sporting events.

We’ll raise the bar again in 275 days.

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