A decorated member of the Australian track cycling team has confirmed their fourth Olympics will be their last, and he’ll enter the Games with a laser focus on a maiden Olympics medal.
A foot injury in May and there was some doubt over whether BMX freestyler Logan Martin would defend the gold medal he won in Tokyo. He would miss the final at an important qualifier. But the cautious approach has paid dividends.
Two BMX riders who had very different Olympic experiences in Tokyo are headed for Paris with gold on their minds.
At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, South Australian Matthew Glaetzer will join an exclusive club of Australian male cyclists including cycling greats Gary Neiwand and Shane Kelly.
Tour de France podium cyclist Richie Porte is part of a strong Australian road cycling team for the Tokyo Olympics.
When a snapped sternum threatened her BMX career, Caroline Buchanan went to extraordinary lengths to race again. Now, she’s eyeing an Olympics berth.
Aussie athletes will have to sign up to an unprecedented list of conditions, some which remain top secret, simply to compete in Tokyo. But not everyone is happy.
The Olympics in 2021 remain up in the air but Australia’s best cyclists have something to aim for.
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The Australian Olympic Committee has made representation to the Federal Government on behalf of athletes to be granted relief from COVID-19 restrictions.
A champion BMX rider, who trains with Olympian Sam Willoughby in the US, is home in Adelaide with family waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to ease before pushing strongly for the Tokyo Olympics
Kai Sakakibara has started to communicate with his family and friends months after a race crash that left him with a traumatic brain injury.
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out many sports for the coming months but news that the Tokyo Olympics is still a goer, albeit in 2021, is a relief to a young South Aussie star who will debut at the Olympics.
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