Menslink Midweekers

In this Midweeker, held in September 2023, we heard from Chris Dutton.

Chris has been a journalist for the past 15 years after graduating from the University of Canberra with a sports media degree.

During his career, he has covered a wide variety of sports and competitions and is now the sports editor at The Canberra Times.

He has covered the Olympic Games as part of a team of journalists from The Canberra Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Age, as well as rugby union, cricket, rugby league, and soccer World Cups and the NRL, AFL, WNBL and A-League Women’s competitions.

Recently he spent 12 months as the news director at The Canberra Times before moving back into the sport section.
 
Amongst all those stories, over the past 15 years, Chris has heard from many local, national, and international sporting stars. While he gets to share their success, he also shares the challenges they have endured and how they overcame those challenges during their career and in retirement.

Enjoy.

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In this Midweeker, held in August 2023, we heard from Ben Alexander.

Ben is a well-known Canberra figure, having played hundreds of matches in the front-row for the Wallabies, Brumbies, Vikings, and Owls. When Ben retired, he was a 72-Test Wallaby and all-time games record holder for the Brumbies, with 154 caps. Today Ben is co-founder of the app, Alfred, a weight management platform, co-owner of The Dock, on Kingston Foreshore, co-founder of Running For Resilience, and a Brumbies Rugby Board Member.

When Ben retired in 2018, he faced many of the challenges professional athletes face in retirement, losing the identity through which he'd defined his entire life and the structure that made that life what it was.

Enjoy.

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