Andrew Johns and Brad Fitler have been among the first ten inductees into the Sydney Olympic Park Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
Inducted at a gala to mark 25 years since the 2000 Olympics, Fitler and Johns were joined by other iconic Australian sporting names, including Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe and John Aloisi, among others.<\/p>\n
Venues NSW and Accor Stadium Charman, David Gallop, spoke on how they were celebrating more than just individual brilliance.<\/p>\n
“It’s a tribute to the collective effort of the people of NSW and the enduring legacy of a venue that has hosted the world’s biggest events, from the Olympics to World Cups, Grand Finals and concerts by global superstars.” Gallop told the gala.<\/p>\n
Johns put on a clinic in the first ever rugby league game at Stadium Australia<\/a>, a 41-8 win over Manly, which saw him score a try, six goals and a field goal.<\/p>\n ‘Joey’ also won the Clive Churchill medal, leading the Newcastle Knights<\/a> to a famous 30-24 grand final victory at the venue.<\/p>\n Not to mention, the eighth Immortal took out three State of Origin<\/a> player of the match awards at the stadium across his 23-game Origin career.<\/p>\n As for Fitler, he notched up 336\u00a0NRL<\/a>\u00a0games across for the\u00a0Sydney Roosters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Penrith Panthers<\/a> across his 15-year career, and won a premiership at both clubs.<\/p>\n Fitler also has a strong connection to Stadium Australia<\/a>, he was the skipper for Australia’s first-ever test match at the stadium, a 20-14 win over New Zealand<\/a> in the ANZAC test and also captained the NSW Blues<\/a> to the first-ever State of Origin<\/a> match at the venue, a 12-8 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Johns and Brad Fitler have been among the first ten inductees into the Sydney Olympic Park Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-150981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}