Olympians involved in rowing’s disastrous Paris campaign have lifted the lid on the sport’s toxic culture, claiming athletes were exposed to a high performance environment where they ‘hurt you on purpose’.
A report into Rowing Australia’s worst Olympic performance in almost 40 years has uncovered some uncomfortable truths about the sport.
Rowing Australia has changed processes and personnel after an independent review into its worst Olympic showing in 36 years highlighted several issues in the high performance program.
Organisers of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics will hold fresh talks with the IOC and the international federations for rowing and canoeing after complaints about the proposal to conduct events at a crocodile-infested river in central Queensland.
Four decades after Dundee put Australia on the map, croc fever has infested the Brisbane Olympic Games launch and become the hot topic of conversation across the globe.
Olympians will be paddling in crocodile-infested waters at the Brisbane Olympics.
Rowing Australia has conceded the sport will be left ‘in limbo’ with the proposed Brisbane Games venue set to fail its technical assessment, and leave them with a baffling alternate option.
Women hold some of the most powerful positions in Australian sport – and boast some of the country’s most recognisable athletes. But who really holds the power?
With the clock ticking down to the Brisbane Olympics, we’ve run our eyes over the state’s brightest young stars who could be centrestage come 2032.
Rowing and paddle sprint events could be held just 25 minutes from the proposed Gold Coast athletes village if a feasibility study into the use of Hinze Dam for the 2032 Olympics is successful.
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Socceroos great Craig Foster has taken aim at Gina Rinehart and the AOC over their sponsorship partnership amid a global campaign on so-called fossil fuel company ‘sportswashing’.
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