A BROKEN squad just months ago, the Hockeyroos – brought together by Katrina Powell – went through the Olympic pool rounds unbeaten after some Savannah Fitzpatrick magic.
A controversial ref call has left the Opals’ Olympic hopes hanging by a thread with one of Australia’s most famous sporting stars venting their rage.
The Matildas stared Olympic elimination in the face before three incredible moments saved the medal hopes of our football stars.
How about this for unfortunate symmetry! Just as the men did 72 hours earlier, the Aussie women’s Rugby Sevens teams has fallen at the same stage of the tournament to the same opponent.
JAPAN has snared one of the best young surfers in the world for a tilt at representing the host nation in surfing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but another is staying in Australian colours.
LAST year’s world tour rookie of the year Connor O’Leary subscribes to the theory that practice makes perfect.
SALLY Fitzgibbons is preparing to face a slew of “danger surfers” during her quest for a world surfing crown. And there’s one young star she’s particularly wary of.
UPDATED: SHE’S the former teenage star competing at her third Winter Olympics at PyeongChang. SWOOP puts the spotlight on Britt Cox.
IT was over in a matter of seconds, but the impact of the historic moment at the Olympic opening ceremony is being called “unprecedented”.
SALLY Pearson will throw her hat into the ring for the chance to race a second event at the Commonwealth Games if Australia opts to field a relay team on the Gold Coast.
FOR surfer Julian Wilson pink is the colour of victory, the hue reminding him how hard his mum Nola fought in her battle to overcome beast cancer — twice.
NORTH Korean athletes have arrived in the South where they’ll be bunking with their “enemy” for the next month at an athletes’ village that has already set a condom record.
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