Biles’ telling post before Tokyo withdrawal
Simone Biles, who has pulled out of the Olympics citing mental health issues, hinted at her struggles a day ago in a revealing Instagram post.
Olympics 2016
Tears, heartbreak and a pitch under the house: The making of Hockeyroos’ sister act
The Fitzpatrick girls – Savannah and Maddy – might just come from the most obsessed hockey family in Australia. But their path to the Tokyo Games saw tears and heartache.
‘13 bones broke’: Model’s gritty Olympic path
Aged 3, Simone Pearce began telling people she was going to the Olympics. The former model fought back from a horror accident to finally fulfil her dream in Tokyo.
Cayla George primed for second Olympic campaign
Extra sessions with one of the Far North’s leading coaches at Cairns Basketball’s Aumuller St courts helped ensure Cayla George stayed fit and firing ahead of her second Olympic Games.
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Hockeyroo announces shock retirement
THE Hockeyroos’ meek departure from the Olympic Games just 16 hours after the Kookaburras was heightened by the shock retirement of their skipper.
Bairstow injured, Boomers down Venezuela
IT was harder work than necessary but the Boomers will enter the men’s basketball finals with confidence after securing a 81-56 victory over feisty Venezuela.
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.
Aussie swimmers in Rio ‘better than London’
KIEREN Perkins looks at where it went right for Australia in the pool, where it went wrong, and why Rio’s performance was ‘way better than London’.
‘The greatest choke in Olympic history’
CATE Campbell has been scathing in her own assessment of her performance in Rio but bounced back to help the medley relay team win silver with her final swim. WATCH THE VIDEO
Lapierre fails to fire as hand costs US star gold
HE finished 10th but long-jumper Fabrice Lapierre is convinced he threw the gold medal away, as Henry Frayne performed better but still missed the medals.
Sevens squad warned over night on the drink
THE Australian men’s sevens team have been given a warning about behaving responsibly after members of the squad had a boozy night in Rio.
Super Bowl champion lifts rugby profile in USA
THE USA have long been regarded as the sleeping giant of world rugby and coach Mike Friday thinks he may have found an alarm clock in a man by the name of Nate Ebner.
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