Soldiers hunted his family as the bloodshed of the second Congo war reached its peak. Now Queensland’s fastest 15-year-old hopes to honour the nation that saved them by sprinting for Australia at the Olympics. Watch him in action here.
One of Australia’s most exciting sporting talents is about to get a huge helping hand – linking with one of the fastest women in the world, and a Paris Olympics viral sensation.
The Olympic gold medallist reveals how she was discovered, what was going through her head during the pole vault final, and why the future is bright for Aussie track and field.
Emelia Surch is the best kept secret in Australian sport – and good judges rate her a genuine medal chance at the LA Games in four years time. And a radical funding plan could give the public a shot at sharing in her Olympic dream.
He’s the viral internet sprint star earning comparisons to Usain Bolt and Gout Gout showed just why at the world junior athletics championships in Peru.
The world better get used to the name Delta Amidzovski after the teenage Australian did something no other Australian had ever achieved.
In January, Geelong Paralympian Sam McIntosh found himself in hospital, undergoing surgery for internal bleeding. Now, eight months later, he’ll go for gold in Paris in a fourth games appearance.
An Australian teenager is rewriting the record books and drawing comparisons to Jamaica’s all-time sprinting king.
16 year-old Sydney Swans’ AFLW academy hopeful Telaya Blacksmith is putting footy on hold momentarily to chase Paralympic glory, writes BRAYDEN MAY.
Olympic women’s 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon was honoured with a statue in Kenya, only for it to be torn down amid outcry.
Friends of an Olympic hurdler have taken a cheeky dig at the returning athlete as the Aussie team touched back down on home soil.
As the Paris Olympics come to an end, our Aussie heroes are about to experience the worst type of “hangover”, writes Sally Pearson.
The ‘vitriol’ of social media has again impacted yet another athlete with marathon runner Sinead Diver subjected to online abuse in the lead-up to her forced withdrawal from the Paris Olympic marathon.
Australia’s Sinead Diver has claimed “online vitriol” contributed to her pulling out of the Olympic marathon just a kilometre into the race.
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