Sailing silver for Aussie cousins
COUSINS Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin were hovering between elation and exasperation after storming to a silver medal today.
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IF sportsmen’s decisions on retirement rest on messages from their bodies then Anna Meares may be finished after her greatest physical assets – her legs – had their say on her future.
Quit your moaning, Rio deserved the Olympics
TAKING the Olympics to Rio was a great decision because it has connected the Games to the way most people on the planet live. It’s about time the Olympics roughed it.
Rio failure set to scar Kookaburras
DID the Kookaburras spend so much time looking back they forgot to look properly forward? Robert Craddock looks at our men’s hockey team and why they couldn’t put it together in Rio.
Legendary Farah overcomes fall, claims gold
THEY said the only way they’d beat Mo Farah in the Olympic 10,000m was to knock him over. They were wrong. Farah got knocked down with 15 laps to go and still won.
‘Thank f— that’s over’, says Aussie rival
BULLETS have flown and knives have flashed in Rio but Australia was at the heart of one of the most brutal and gripping battles in Olympic history.
Aussie left clothesless by Rio thieves
IN YET another of Rio’s stunning security lapses, thieves somehow made their way into the Hockeyroos dressing room — TWICE.
Who will stand up as our next track star?
THERE was a sweetness and a shallowness to the arrival of Australia’s athletics team in Rio.
‘The winner might not be known for 10 years’
DISCUS thrower Dani Samuels reckons no matter who stands on the Olympic dais next week the real winner of her event might not be known for 10 years.
Athletes back Mack’s drug cheat stance
AUSTRALIA’s athletics team have strongly backed their swimmers drug crusade, branding it a bold step forward for sport.
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