‘Forged in fire’: Keeney takes silver despite years of setbacks
Ten years of intense training, a painful surgery and nasty mental demons. That’s what Maddison Keeney battled to claim silver in the women’s diving final and she couldn’t be prouder.
Ten years of intense training, a painful surgery and nasty mental demons. That’s what Maddison Keeney battled to claim silver in the women’s diving final and she couldn’t be prouder.
After a challenging few years dealing with mental health issues and injuries, Aussie diver Maddison Keeney is simply happy to be at the Paris Olympics as she gets set to dive for gold on Friday.
Australian Maddison Keeney looks set to break up the Chinese stranglehold in the diving pool at Paris with a strong performance in the preliminaries of the three metre springboard.
Kurtis Mathews had 14 months to ditch 14kg and return to the pool with a dream Paris start on the cards. Now he’s in the 3m springboard final at the Olympics.
16 year-old Gold Coast product Shelby McMahon will pack her bags for Melbourne after signing a rare three-year A-League deal with Melbourne City.
In an extraordinary interview the Matildas longest serving coach has publicly defended ousted coach Tony Gustavsson and said the disastrous Olympic result is not the coach’s fault.
A 17-year-old Sydney schoolgirl is now the seventh best 10m platform diver in the world as veteran Melissa Wu also closed out her career at the Paris Games.
Australian diver Melissa Wu has been dealing with a range of issues that stemmed from an injury sustained while filming a reality TV show. Now she reveals her tactics to get right for Paris.
They arrived on a private jet full of promise and were hustled out of town on a train and bus, but players are sticking by the outgoing coach and their preparation for the Games.
Three time women’s championship winning A-Leagues coach Ante Juric has emerged as a front runner to take the charge of the Matildas. Find out how he compares with the contenders.
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