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Edna Sheppard: Meet the 100-year-old fitness fanatic who still does up to five gym classes a week

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Edna Sheppard is an inspiring 100-year-old fitness fanatic who hits the gym three times a week – proving that age is really just a number. Her great-grandmother has been a devoted member of the Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Center in Melbourne’s north for 40 years. Regardless of her age, Edna can do push-ups, sit-ups, planks, barbell squats and full workouts while holding a 5kg weight in each hand. ‘I enjoy working out, it makes me feel good and it’s important to keep my body moving,’ Edna told FEMAIL. Scroll down for the video Melbourne’s beloved great-grandmother Edna Sheppard (pictured) has been a devoted member of the Broadmeadows Aquatic and Leisure Center in north Melbourne for 40 years and participates in up to five gym classes each week Regardless of her age, Edna can do push-ups, sit-ups, planks, barbell squats and full workouts while holding a 5kg weight in each hand. In the 1980s when her late husband Max retired at the age o...

Meet totally blind Australian para-triathletes and chocolate makers with titanium ribs

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Gerrard Gosens has represented Australia in various sports for more than 30 years. He’s competed at three Paralympic Games and more than a dozen world championships — and climbed Everest, and danced with the stars, and launched a thriving business, and was awarded an OAM… the list goes on. There’s not much these para-triathlons can’t do—except look. He was completely blind all his life. One of the oldest members of the Australian team in Birmingham, Gosens will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the men’s PTVI triathlon. He told the ABC it would also be his last major international gathering. Gerrard Gosens ran the T11 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. ( Reuters ) Birmingham will be a unique and bitter first final The para-triathlon for athletes who use a wheelchair made its debut at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Birmingham will be the first visually impaired athlete to be able to compete at the event, and while Gos...

Kim Kardashian stepped off her private jet in Cairns to meet Pete Davidson

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Kim Kardashian has officially arrived in Australia for a romantic reunion with her boyfriend Pete Davidson. On Saturday, the 41-year-old woman was seen exiting her private jet after landing at Cairns Airport in Queensland. Davidson, 28, is currently in Cairns shooting the comedy Wizards! with Orlando Bloom. Kim Kardashian arrives in Australia for a romantic reunion with boyfriend Pete Davidson on Saturday Kim looked absolutely gorgeous as she stepped off the plane in an all black outfit and matching sunglasses. She had blonde hair pinned back in a small bun and carried a bag in one hand. A guard was waiting for him with an umbrella and he was quickly brought into the car. The large entourage of stars followed him off the plane with bags and other belongings, while several airport workers helped them. The 41-year-old woman is seen stepping out of her private jet after landing at Cairns Airport in Queensland Kim looked so pretty when she stepped out of the plane in an ...