Tallent calls for Russian Rio ban
NEW Olympic champion Jared Tallent believes it will be a disgrace if Russia’s athletic team competes in Rio but another gold medallist fears for clean athletes caught in a dirty system.
Athletics
Five-week regimen to put Sally back on track
SALLY Pearson’s Olympic campaign hinges on a five-week training block at home after the defending hurdles champion delivered three below-par results in Europe.
Keeping it in the Olympic family
SISTER acts and brotherly love: Michael Carayannis speaks to the seven sets of Australian sporting siblings already bound for Brazil this August.
A Tallent never in doubt
HE stayed the course despite suspecting key Olympic rivals were doping. Now, four years after losing to a Russian drug cheat, Adelaide racewalker Jared Tallent is about to become a gold medallist.
Pearson struggling ahead of Rio Olympics
SALLY Pearson’s frustrating return from a serious wrist injury has continued, clocking her second 13-second-plus performance in a week.
Long jump champ freezes sperm over Zika fears
OLYMPIC long jump champion Greg Rutherford has made the decision to freeze his sperm because of fears about the Zika virus at this year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Meares the right choice for flag bearer?
CYCLIST Anna Meares and walker Jared Tallent are among a small group of athletes being considered for the coveted role of Olympic flag bearer. VOTE IN OUR POLL!
Ribouem, Toomey lift way to Rio
CAMEROON-born weightlifter Simplice Ribouem and former Cross-Fit star Tia-Clair Toomey are off to Rio as Australia’s Olympic representatives this year.
Olympics history to be made in Rio
FOR all the negativity surrounding the Rio Olympics right now, this story of three sisters from Estonia is one of the bright spots.
Lapierre, facing early exit, jumps out of his skin
THE Rio prospects of long-jumper Fabrice Lapierre continue to improve after he produced the third longest leap of his career at the IAAF Diamond League meet in Rabat.
‘Semenya could win 800m by 20 metres’
IF Caster Semenya blitzes the women’s 800m field in Rio – as she is expected to – the South African will leave a conflicted world to wade through the moral minefield behind her.
Tallent win can’t make up for Olympics shame
JARED Tallent will rightly get his gold, but the East German who cheated Raelene Boyle in Munich entered Germany’s Sporting Hall of Fame, writes Robert Craddock.
Is Phelps really the Greatest Olympian?
GOLD medals, number of medals and longevity all play a part in determining the GOAT, but who is the greatest Olympian ever? Here are the candidates. VOTE.
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