Teams from 25 cities competed in front of thousands of spectators in Vienna and Melbourne is set to host the 2027 showpiece
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ram driver Sally Burgess has never deliberately collided with another object on the track – until last weekend, that is, when she hit a giant ball as hard as she could with the bumper of her tram. The goal: to knock down a series of 2-metre-tall rubber pins, like oversized skittles, lined up on the track ahead.
“I said I would smash the ball and I smashed the ball,” Burgess tells Guardian Australia. “Only one pin came down, though. It’s pretty hard to get all those pins down.”
