Aussie will be ‘best athlete on the planet’
After announcing himself in Tokyo as the new pin-up boy of Australian sport, there have been some remarkable claims about how good Ash Moloney can be.
Athletics
How Australia turned Olympic athletics on its head
Australia’s middle-distance revolution is making the rest of the world sit up and take notice. This is the 15-year journey that has earned global respect and made other countries nervous.
‘Ash will be one of the greatest athletes on the planet’
Ash Moloney’s decathlon bronze put the athletics world on notice but his coach says the 21-year-old is just getting started and he will smash the current world record by hundreds of points.
Olympic coaches evicted after scary claims
The IOC kicked two coaches out of the Olympic Village after claims they attempted to send an athlete back to Belarus against her will.
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Champ misses history bid by tiniest margin
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Patterson raising the bar on her path to Rio
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It’s Belgium or bust for Solomon
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Boyd to ‘dial-in’ on Rio rivals in Europe
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