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.
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- Zoe Samios
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.
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- Zoe Samios
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.
- Hans van Leeuwen
‘Clearly failed’: Minister Watt moves to create CFMEU special powers
Murray Watt says he has given the construction and general division a strict deadline; Australia to accept nuclear material in new AUKUS deal; How the Olympics day 13 unfolded. Follow live updates.
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- Natasha Rudra and Lucy Slade
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.
- Kris Rhim