A Walkley Award-winning journalist and author, Mike Colman has covered major sporting events across Australia and internationally, including seven Olympics, six Commonwealth Games, four Rugby World Cups and many Ashes, State of Origin and Bledisloe Cup series. A former assistant editor of the Courier-Mail and European Sports Correspondent for News Limited, Colman has won three Clarion Awards, the AOC's inaugural Harry Gordon Memorial Award for Olympic Reporting and was Sport Australia's print journalist of the year in 2010. Among his previous books are critically acclaimed military titles, best-selling biographies of rugby league's Paul Vautin, and Gordon Tallis, and the story of the great Aboriginal cricketer Eddie Gilbert, which was the Australian Cricket Society's book of the year for 2003.