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Michael van Gerwen

The Olympics must be compelling, electrifying and showcase unparalleled skill. One sport is all of these

If shooting is an Olympic sport, and if breaking was, darts should at least be considered. Yet there’s more chance of Raygun becoming a two-time Olympian.

  • Darren Kane

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Saffron Tambyrajah at the Oceania qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games.

Her sights were set on Paris. Then a refugee border dispute wrecked her dream

A young Australian athlete was denied her chance of competing at her first Olympic Games because of a border dispute that ended up in world sport’s highest court.

  • Adam Pengilly
The Olympics is a once-every-four-years reminder that most of us are painfully ordinary and will remain that way forever.

‘Triple pike? I could do that’: The lies we tell ourselves during the Olympics

It may not be nice or fair, but comparing ourselves to athletes (and critiquing their technique) is basically an Australian national sport.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Slowly the boats made their way down the Seine.

A noble failure: The Paris opening ceremony was a creative tour de force, but let athletes down

The IOC should insist that athletes enter a stadium, their rightful environment, to be introduced to the world rather than being treated like tourists coming to town.

  • Ric Birch
The Australian Olympic team’s deputy chef de mission Kaarle McCulloch places a wreath on the grave of Cecil Healy in Assevillers, northern France, and Healy, who was an Australian Olympian before the First World War.

He died 106 years ago, but in one French village they’ll never forget this Australian Olympian

Cecil Healy died the day after the battle of the Somme was won. More than a century later, his legacy for bravery and sportsmanship live on in Australia and France.

  • Rob Harris
Thomas Back (right) with Brisbane 2032 chief executive Andrew Liveris.

Without extra lead time, IOC would be ‘pretty nervous’ about Brisbane 2032

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation would have been “pretty nervous” about Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Games had the city been given hosting rights under the previous selection process.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Michelle Ford celebrates victory at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

Why the most macabre doping scheme in Olympic history went unpunished

Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.

  • Darren Kane
Enhanced Games president Aron D’Souza.

The Enhanced Games will be many things, but they won’t be sport

The spruikers of the “Doping Olympics” have so far failed to make the case for their venture, while the many arguments against it are so obvious as to be absurd.

  • Darren Kane
Redland Whitewater Olympic Centre plans

Redland ponders whitewater wonderland for Olympics and beyond

Redland Council is hoping to parlay a whitewater centre for the 2032 Olympics into Queensland’s “Second South Bank”. But not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.

  • Josh Bavas
Former Olympians Rebecca Rippon and Daniel Kowalski are participating in the Australian Queer Aquatics Festival, part of Sydney WorldPride.

Sport is a huge part of WorldPride, but coming out can still be a big deal

Inclusive sport is a runaway success in Sydney. At the elite level, though, queer athletes remain relatively rare.

  • Michael Koziol

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