Six athletes vanish from Special Olympics
Six members of Haiti’s Special Olympics men’s soccer team have mysteriously disappeared during the event in Florida, leaving behind luggage.
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Why Fox’s gold is for all women who fight for equality
She not only won gold — she smashed it, but Jess Fox wouldn’t have even had the chance, had she not fought to have her canoe event added to the Tokyo Olympic program.
Simone Biles to share in $533 million payout
Gold medalists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney and a host of other gymnasts will be paid $533 million by USA Gymnastics.
Shock Aussie challenge for ‘the world’s fittest woman’
Elite Aussie athlete Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, aka ‘the world’s fittest woman’ has tried her hand at a number of sports and succeeded but her latest move is something else.
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Missing Olympic weightlifter found
Julius Ssekitoleko has been found by police more than 160km from the hotel room he was living in before not making the official Ugandan Olympic team.
Macca’s photo sparks AFP investigation
An Aussie reporter heading to Tokyo on his first flight since the pandemic hit was terrified after being mistaken for a sex offender at Sydney airport.
‘Incompetence’ blasted: Six swimmers sent home after error
Six athletes have been left angry and heartbroken after an embarrassing error resulted in them being sent home before the games even started.
Gymnast debunks Olympic ‘anti-sex’ beds
As the Tokyo Olympics is now days away, one athlete arriving in the athletes’ village has been quick to expose some “fake news”.
Inside Olympic Village: How Aussie athletes are living
A specially-hired barista and disposable cardboard beds — welcome to life in the Olympic Village, where panic is creeping in.
Australia’s best medal hopes at Tokyo Olympics
Australia has quietly assembled an Olympics team that is now predicted to deliver our best Olympic medal tally since 2008.
160k condoms at Olympics despite sex ban
Olympic officials have said each athlete will be provided with 14 condoms in a welcome pack despite also being told they shouldn’t be bonking.
Olympics contender to take on Aussies
Japan’s first female surfer joined the Aussie leg of the World Surfing League, and she dreams to beat our stars at the Olympics.
The extraordinary measures needed to keep Games safe
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.
Olympics give giant ‘stuff you’ to Tokyo
The boss of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics has gone public with a tone-deaf statement on the fate of the Games during a state of emergency.
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