September 2024
What happened to rowing in Paris?
The Australian Olympic rowing team came home with just one bronze medal – its weakest performance since 1988. CEO Sarah Cook is already making changes.
Paris throws a final Olympics bash
It was a day of summer revelry before the autumn doldrums set in, the end of an Olympic bubble that enchanted France and allowed it to forget, for a time, its problems.
New homes pushing up prices of old apartments: O’Rorke
New homes have bolstered the prices of existing properties; more than 3000 serving military personnel and veterans died from suicide between 1997 and 2021. Follow live updates.
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.
August 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 2024
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
July 2021
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.