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Gary Ablett

Australian football player
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John Nauright
Professor of Sport Management, George Mason University. Co-author of Rugby and the South African Nation and Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity.
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Gary Ablett (born Oct. 1, 1961, Drouin [near Warragul], Vic., Austl.) is an Australian rules football player who was celebrated for taking the sport’s “Mark of the Century” against Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1994, in which he leaped over two opposing players and caught the ball with one hand while twisting his body several feet in the air. Considered one of the all-time greatest players in the Australian Football League (AFL), Ablett...

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