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Nicola Olyslagers (right) and Eleanor Patterson took gold and silver at the world indoor championships.

Australia takes record medal haul at world championships

Four medals on the final day, including gold and silver in the high jump, have delivered Australia not only its biggest world indoor championships haul but almost doubled its previous highest medal tally.

  • Michael Gleeson

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Oscar Piastri.

‘The hairpin of my life’: Five key moments from Piastri’s China win

A week after failing to snap Australia’s hoodoo of no local driver finishing on the Albert Park podium, Oscar Piastri was utterly dominant in victory in Shanghai.

  • Matthew Clayton
Carlos Alcaraz speaks to reporters after his quarter-final loss to Novak Djokovic.

‘I’m not supporting that’: Grand slam champion unaware of bombshell tennis lawsuit

Nick Kyrgios called the bombshell legal action a “special moment” for tennis and said it was widely supported by the world’s top players. But four-time major champion Carlos Alcaraz made it clear he is not one of them.

  • Marc McGowan
UNSW Underwater Rugby team training at Leichhardt Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney

The unlikely team sport left high and dry when Sydney dive pool closes

A difficult sport to watch is going to become an even rarer sight as underwater rugby loses a subaquatic pitch.

  • Frances Howe
Gout celebrates his impressive performance.

He’s 17 and the world’s fastest man over 200m this year, but we should no longer be shocked by Gout Gout

If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17, what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?

  • Michael Gleeson
Karl Vilipis, aged eight with his dad Paul.

How Koala Karl went from child prodigy to PGA Tour winner

To buy his first set of golf clubs, Australian Karl Vilips collected 3000 lost golf balls. Now supporters believe he could be one of the country’s greatest golfers.

  • Angus Delaney
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Gout Gout storms to an emphatic win in the 200m for under-20s at the Queensland Athletics Championships .

Gout does it again: Teen blitzes field in 200m races

If he hadn’t already broken Peter Norman’s long-standing 200m record, Gout Gout would have broken it on Sunday. The youngster now has the two quickest times by an Australian man.

  • Michael Gleeson
Lachlan Kennedy (second from right) in action earlier this year.

He’s the fastest man in Australia, but you probably haven’t heard of him

Lachlan Kennedy may be running over a distance more common in Europe than Australia. But he has broken the national and regional records, and now he has his eye on cracking the 10-second mark in the 100 metres.

  • Michael Gleeson
Record-breaker: Cameron Myers.

Aussie teen breaks world mile record – again

Eighteen-year-old Cam Myers has broken the world under-20 mile record.

  • Michael Gleeson
Joe McGuire.

Collingwood connection: How sons of AFL identities made it to one of the biggest games in American sport

Joe McGuire, son of Eddie McGuire, and James Rendell, son of the late Matt Rendell, will punt for opposing teams in the national championship game next Tuesday, the pinnacle of US college football.

  • Steve Larkin

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