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- Lucy Slade
This Month
Meet the quiet heroes of the Paralympics: the athlete guides
There are 22 Paralympic sports in which competitors are allowed to use guides, and their relationships can border on telepathic.
- Elena Bergeron
August
Petricola stars as Aussie clinch velodrome medals
Emily Petricola has overcome a flare-up of multiple sclerosis to smash her own world record and retain her Paralympic gold medal.
- George Clarke
Comeback kid wins swimming gold on day one
Swimmer Tom Gallagher has delivered the first gold medal of his career and Australia’s first of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
- George Clarke
How the French really feel about the Paris Olympics
The Games’ problems – food, air-con, ticket prices – seem prosaic, whereas memories are written in poetry.
- Matthew Drummond
Paris changes as the Paralympics get ready to arrive
Four-time Paralympic gold medallist Dylan Alcott just attended his first Olympics. It’s given him a taste of what’s to come, and how the city has changed accessibility.
- Zoe Samios
July
Meet the data junkies helping the Aussie team succeed
They aren’t Olympians or even in Paris, but this team is critical to Australia’s success.
- Zoe Samios
$2400 a night: Hotel prices soar as Origin fans flock to Brisbane
A perfect storm for the blockbuster rugby league series decider has sparked a surge in hotel rates across the city.
- James Hall
September 2023
Nine banks on bumper Olympics advertising package spend
The media giant scored the next five Olympic Games for more than $300 million. Now the challenge is to pay for them.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
August 2023
Fewer sports behind TV paywalls under proposed reforms
Of the 7 million people watching the Matildas play England, 6 million were on free-to-air aerial television. The government wants that protected by law.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
December 2022
Former Deloitte boss tapped to run Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Six months after leaving the firm’s Singapore office as head of its Asia-Pacific business, Cindy Hook said the offer to deliver the Games was too good to turn down.
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- Mark Ludlow
October 2022
‘Buck stops with me’, says Brisbane Olympics boss
As he prepares to bring the Olympics to Brisbane, former Dow Chemicals chair and adviser to president Donald Trump, Andrew Liveris, says he’s used to dealing with egos.
- Mark Ludlow
September 2021
‘I feel like we’re at the high table of Australian sport’
Equity of opportunity and funding won’t just boost Paralympic sport, it will give Australia influence on an increasingly complicated world stage.
- Michael Bleby
- Opinion
- Disability
When a simple train trip can be as hard as a journey to Mars
We need to chase the gold standard to make transport truly inclusive for the disabled. The right measures can help add more than $3 billion to GDP.
- Michael Dobbie
August 2021
Where there’s a Will there’s a way at Tokyo Paralympics
The first three days of competition haven’t all gone the way of Team Australia. But if nothing else, the Paralympics is a story of hope.
- Michael Bleby
What’s on at the Paralympics on Saturday & Sunday
Here’s what’s coming up in Tokyo for Saturday, September 4 and Sunday, September 5. All times AEST
- Michael Bleby
What locked-down Australia can learn from the Paralympics
The country’s biggest overseas Paralympic team is chasing medals in Tokyo as it competes in the most sports since Sydney 2000.
- Michael Bleby
July 2021
- Opinion
- Tokyo Olympics
Will this be the ‘damp squib’ Olympics?
Nick Varley, who helped Japan win the Games, wonders if sporting prowess can overcome empty stands, silent stadiums and absent athletes.
- Nick Varley
June 2021
- Opinion
- Postcard from Tokyo
Beware the hubris of a holier-than-thou virus stance
Notwithstanding a few outbreaks, Australia may have been too successful at keeping the virus at bay. Here’s hoping our leaders work to shift fear into understanding, and our true outward-looking spirit prevails.
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- Melanie Brock
Brisbane 2032 Olympic host costs are already soaring
Olympics veteran John Coates says new reforms will help keep the cost of hosting Brisbane 2032 down, but history is not on his side.
- Michael Bleby