December 2024
The young sprint star on track to join Aussie sport’s big earners
The highest-earning Australian sports stars usually play tennis, golf or basketball. Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout may be able to change all that.
The world’s next Usain Bolt could be this Queensland teen
Gout Gout is just 16 but runs in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprints against athletes who have years on him. He’s already faster than some of the world’s best.
August 2024
Australia’s athletes bag more Olympic medals than any Games since 1956
After Jess Hull won silver in the 1500m, the unsung Australian track-and-field team quietly surpassed the golden era of the 1960s.
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August 2023
Being the best just isn’t enough to make a living from sport
Usain Bolt understood that setting the world on fire with his athletic feats would not immediately transfer to personal riches – he had to do more.