Anneli Maley and Marena Whittle’s journey to Paris is unlike any other. MATT LOGUE discovers how the engaged couple and teammates supported each other and helped Australia’s 3×3 side qualify for the Olympics.
Following a record breaking performance from the women’s 4x100m relay team, the Aussie men’s team have also clinched a ticket to Paris, securing the spot despite their best runner missing with injury.
Thanks to a record-breaking performance led by 19-year-old Torrie Lewis, Australia will field a 4x100m women’s relay team for the first time since the 2000 Sydney Games.
The Australian Olympic Committee is taking no security chances at the Paris Games, with the organisation committing to briefing all athletes’ family and friends as well as having venues scouted by experts.
Nothing will get in the way of Harry Garside’s golden Paris dream with the star boxer sensationally offering to amputate his thumb if it meant he could still go to the Olympics.
Olympians Rosie Malone and Grace Stewart admit they once hated each other. Now best mates, the Hockeyroos “package deal” are plotting a path to Paris gold.
Debutants will be ruling the waves for Australia at the Paris Olympics with one medal hopeful named on two special teams on the same day in a remarkable coincidence.
She was one of the first athletes named for the Paris Olympics and one of the Australian teams least known but that could be about to change for this sailing gun after a crazy win in Europe.
He’s the youngest male in the Paris Olympic sailing team with a big dream starting to look like it could become a reality to the surprise of many – but not Grae Morris.
This Olympic team will probably have our three most successful Olympians ever swimming in the same team. It’s important we don’t take it for granted, writes JAMES MAGNUSSEN.
Jess Fox is giving herself every chance to win back-to-back Olympic Gold medals, travelling with a GoPro in her mouth to create a perfect virtual reality simulation of the Paris course.
The Australian government has been called on join the anti-doping crusade and ensure our swimmers have a fair chance of winning gold at the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Luke Willian had his spot on the Tokyo Olympics ripped from his grasp at the last second. His efforts, so far, to reach Paris have been struck down by an ill-timed Covid bout. Now he wants nothing to be left to chance.
Australia’s footballing talent has been in decline for years and is highlighted by the Olyroos failing to qualify for this year’s Paris Games. ROBBIE SLATER writes how FA allowed this to happen.
The Chinese swimming scandal which has rocked the sporting world could claim a high-profile target – with the World Anti-Doping Agency suddenly in the crosshairs ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Turning 30 next month and confirming her retirement after the Olympics, Emma McKeon is managing her ageing body for the final farewell.
Swimming champion Ariarne Titmus is in the most important part of her Olympic preparations as she attempts to make herself the most ‘high performing vehicle possible’ and do more than just defend gold.
Matildas injured superstar Sam Kerr could be on her way to the Paris Games despite being unlikely to take the field. MATT LOGUE and ERIN SMITH discover the loophole to get her there.
Liz Clay was working in retail when she realised something had to give. The self-managed Olympian explains to SHANNON GILL how she unlocked the power of social media to make gains on and off the track.
Boxing coach Jamie Pittman sensationally ruled himself out of the Australian team for the Paris Olympics after a sexual misconduct trial. Here is the evidence that forced him into that shock call.
On this week’s En Route to Paris podcast, Australia’s diving gold medal favourite Cassiel Rousseau chats about his build up to the Games and how he is able to compete despite his fear of heights.
Natalie Cook made history when she won gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, but it left her $300k in debt. This is the million-dollar idea to save the half of Australia’s Paris Olympians from financial hell.
She has an Olympic gold medal and world record to her name, but under-the-radar swim star Meg Harris knows she needs another gear if she’s to book her place in the Australian team for Paris.
The Australian uniform for the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics will have something special inside.
With the countdown to the Games well and truly on for the nations best athletes, JULIAN LINDEN takes a look at who wins medals for Australia and why it’s all set up for a huge summer in Paris.
Olympic champion Jess Fox had a rare defeat and a teammate couldn’t stop crying after an extraordinary show of whitewater power and might by Australia’s Paris 2024 top guns.
Dumped from the Kookaburras at the end of 2022, Corey Weyer asked himself one question: ‘Am I done with hockey?’ Two years on, the answer is emphatic. SEE KOOKABURRAS SQUAD
Australian great Andrew Gaze has made an ominous call regarding the immediate NBA future of star Boomers guard Josh Giddey – on a day when fellow Aussie Ben Simmons shone.
Kiana Elliott was a promising gymnast – until a chronic back injury derailed her plans. Now she’s taking a different path to the Olympics.
An Aussie Olympics crisis has been exposed with one star coming forward to reveal sad details months out from the Paris Games.
Olympic rowing has never been a sport for the faint hearted, with even the fittest rowers living in a world of excruciating pain. But gold medal hopeful Tara Rigney is a glutton for punishment, writes Julian Linden.
Cody Simpson was just like every other smitten, proud partner as Emma McKeon was crowned Young Australian of the Year.
With just six months until the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Australia’s athletes have been buoyed by a study which has predicted a record haul of gold medals.
Eleanor Patterson will be one of Australia’s best medal hopes at the Paris Olympics, but the high jump star knows the pressure is looming, and how best to channel the golden expectations.
Ben Simmons gave Brian Goorjian a proper grilling in an hour-long face-to-face chat during the Boomers coach’s fact-finding mission ahead of the Paris Games. Here’s what that revealed about the controversial Nets star.
Sam Kerr can’t defy scientific history to regain full fitness in time for the Paris Olympics, but there is a very specific role that could keep her chances of appearing alive.
It’s only a matter of time before Brian Goorjian is back coaching in the NBL — a reality which has almost every coach on notice. Where would the Boomers head honcho fit best?
Track cycling great and current Olympic Chef de Mission Anna Meares and three-time world champion Annette Edmondson have paid tribute to former teammate Melissa Hoskins.
Tanielle Crase is a three-time national heptathlon champion, but the financial strains of chasing her Olympic dream forced the Paris hopeful out of the country and to take massive risks in the pursuit of glory on the world stage.
Lauren Jackson is officially in the frame for a fifth Olympic Games — at age 42 — after she was named in the Opals squad charged with punching its ticket for Paris. SQUAD REVEAL
As they try to go one better from their Tokyo silver, the Kookaburras have named a 27-player squad — with an ominous Paris warning from their hard-nosed coach. SEE THE SQUAD
Two boxers from the same gym in Melbourne’s south east have qualified for the 2024 Olympics, rewriting a number of records in the process. See their story.
It started out as a standard training run for Olympic champion Jess Fox – but things took a bloody turn, in a stark reminder of the dangers of whitewater rafting.
Sprinter Rohan Browning has ticked off a key milestone ahead of a huge Olympic campaign, and he says the timing couldn’t be better.
A NSW teenager who is yet to finish his HSC studies has been chosen in Australia’s under-23 World Cup squad in a sign he has been earmarked as a future international star of the sport.
There are nine Australians in the NBA – but who is providing the best return on investment in the world’s best basketball league? Our power rankings reveal all – and raise a big Boomers problem.
Australian athletes are used to waiting around for an Olympics opening ceremony, but a break from tradition in Paris could see them pushed to extremes in 2024.
No Australian canoe slalom athlete has ever been to four Olympic Games, until now. And Jess Fox will head to Paris as the one to beat after her extraordinary gold medal triumph in Tokyo.
Australian athletics cult hero Michelle Jenneke is in mourning after the death of a legendary coach, which has rocked the sport.
She had been on course to create history at the Paris 2024 Olympics but Australian sailor Lisa Darmanin will remain ashore when the fleet heads out next year to chase another dream.
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