The $10m medal: Australia’s eye-watering Olympic price tag reveal
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Diving
When silver sparkles brighter than gold
Gold medals have dominated Australia’s Games but three silver medals contained performances for the ages and will long live in our memories.
Champion effort as Cass nearly sneaks a diving medal
Winning last year’s World Championships put extra pressure on Cassiel Rousseau heading into Paris but the Aussie diving star is down talking his medal hopes despite reaching semi-finals.
Diver takes drastic action against his bulge
The male divers have been ogled and objectified all Olympics and it appears one athlete has decided to put a stop to it once and for all.
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‘Forged in fire’: Keeney takes silver despite years of setbacks
Ten years of intense training, a painful surgery and nasty mental demons. That’s what Maddison Keeney battled to claim silver in the women’s diving final and she couldn’t be prouder.
‘In pain’: Diver scores 0.0 in scary collision
A US diver had a nightmarish start to competition in the 3m springboard where she scored a 0.0 for her first attempt.
‘Just happy to be here’: Gold a mere bonus for Keeney
After a challenging few years dealing with mental health issues and injuries, Aussie diver Maddison Keeney is simply happy to be at the Paris Olympics as she gets set to dive for gold on Friday.
Aussie diver challenging Chinese for gold in Paris
Australian Maddison Keeney looks set to break up the Chinese stranglehold in the diving pool at Paris with a strong performance in the preliminaries of the three metre springboard.
Rugby field to Olympic final: Aussie diver’s drastic transformation
Kurtis Mathews had 14 months to ditch 14kg and return to the pool with a dream Paris start on the cards. Now he’s in the 3m springboard final at the Olympics.
Sydney schoolgirl nails Olympics diving debut as Wu signs off
A 17-year-old Sydney schoolgirl is now the seventh best 10m platform diver in the world as veteran Melissa Wu also closed out her career at the Paris Games.
Wu reveals bizarre Olympic training tactics post TV-show injury
Australian diver Melissa Wu has been dealing with a range of issues that stemmed from an injury sustained while filming a reality TV show. Now she reveals her tactics to get right for Paris.
Male athlete remarks simply ‘not ok’
Comments about the physiques of male Olympians have gone viral in recent days. Experts say it just isn’t good enough.
Diver leaves fans not knowing where to look
Not for the first time in Paris, a male athlete has sent social media wild thanks to one image that fans couldn’t look away from.
‘Distraught’: Heartbroken Aussies fall apart
The world has watched on as an Aussie pair was left devastated by a disastrous final act at the Paris Olympics.
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