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June

Nick Timmings, a Winter Olympian Skeleton athlete and Matt Allen, an Australian Olympic Committee board member and philanthropist at Athletes Authority in Artarmon.

How to sponsor an Olympic athlete (and get a tax break)

A new scheme encourages wealthy people to give money directly to athletes in lesser-known sports such as skeleton (it’s a bobsled) by offering tax deductions.

  • Zoe Samios

August 2024

Maddi Keeney at training in Brisbane before the Games, fresh from working at BHP that morning.

‘I’m always switched on’: How this Olympic diver balances a job at BHP

Maddi Keeney gets a second chance at a medal in the 3m springboard from Wednesday night Australian time after heartbreak in the first week of the Games.

  • Hannah Wootton

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