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August

Ezi Magbegor scored 30 points and had 15 rebounds.

Opals win bronze in emotional send-off for talisman Jackson

The women’s basketball team lifted Australia’s total medal tally to the highest since Sydney 2000, and made a fitting finale for the game’s five-time medallist.

  • Updated
  • Hans van Leeuwen
Tess Madgen tries to find away past a US opponent.

Rampant USA runs roughshod over Opals

The USA has won the gold medal at every Olympics since Atlanta 1996. On Friday, it was easy to see why.

  • Updated
  • Hans van Leeuwen

July

Steph Talbot’s shooting wasn’t enough.

Off-colour Opals stunned by Nigeria in major upset

Australia now have to beat fifth-ranked Canada and seventh-ranked France to have a chance of getting a fifth medal for Lauren Jackson.

  • Murray Wenzel

July 2021

Opals star Liz Cambage has withdrawn from the Olympics.

COVID-19 cuts $3 million hole in AOC’s pocket

The country’s national Olympic committee has had to cancel two key fundraising events even as it meets extra costs of the pandemic-hit games.

  • Michael Bleby

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