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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.
- by Adam Pengilly
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Olympics
‘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.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Opinion
Paris 2024
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.
- by Ric Birch
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.
- by Rob Harris
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.
- by Cameron Atfield
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.
- by Darren Kane
Opinion
Olympics
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.
- by Darren Kane
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.
- by Josh Bavas
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.
- by Michael Koziol
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Olympics
‘I am innocent’: Olympic hero Peter Bol speaks out after failed drugs test
Australian Olympic hero Peter Bol has spoken out after being provisionally suspended after failing a test for performance-enhancing drugs.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Opinion
The lessons we can learn from secret life of Sir Mo
The four-time Olympic gold-medal hero revealing he arrived in the UK illegally and under a false name has put the government in an awkward position over its new policy of flying people precisely like that to Rwanda.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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