World Netball holds its showcase event once every four years, but knows this is too long between drinks. Its president opens up on future event plans, the Commonwealth Games, Brisbane Olympics and more.
Cricket’s future in a more “sustainable” Commonwealth Games is murky as other sports also face the chop in a streamlined format.
More than $200m of Victorian taxpayers dollars will be handed to Scotland to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, with the Glaswegians celebrating their free Games.
The Scottish love a bargain buy and they got one. But can the Common-Not-So-Wealthy Games work? ROBERT CRADDOCK analyses what the T20 model means for the future of the event.
The 2026 Commonwealth Games are officially happening, with Australia all but funding the event to take place in a foreign country on the other side of the world.
The 2026 Commonwealth Games’ lifeline has officially been locked in, however some big changes will be coming to the troubled event.
Olympics: Glasgow has emerged as the new host of the 2026 Commonwealth games in place of Melbourne.
The Commonwealth Games could have disappeared from the sporting landscape, but the revival is now complete with a new-look version set for 2026.
Australia is set to save the tortured 2026 Commonwealth Games after stepping in with a multimillion-dollar assistance package.
Commonwealth Games Australia has offered millions of dollars to the Scottish government — effectively paid for by Victorian taxpayers — to help it roll out the Games in Glasgow.
Glasgow could be confirmed as the host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games as early as this week, but it will be a seriously slimmed down event. Here’s what is could look like.
The anxious search for a 2026 Commonwealth Games host isn’t ending soon, despite shock reports a nation had secured the job.
Marred by uncertainty for over a year, the 2026 Commonwealth Games may have inched closer to a new host.
Just as Australia’s Paris Olympic campaign came to an end, renewed hope that the 2026 Commonwealth Games abandoned by Daniel Andrews and the Victorian Government may be saved.
A former professional athlete player who competed at the Commonwealth Games has taken a bold career step.
The list of swimmers he has guided to the Olympic Games is substantial, and then there are the super stars who claimed multiple gold medals, all of whom owe a debt to Michael Bohl, writes JULIAN LINDEN.
Olympic Try Hard Jon Ralph instructed table tennis star Milly Tapper to give him no easy points when they faced off with paddle in hand, as he sought to gain insight into how the mind of an Olympian truly works.
Global sports have been updating transgender athlete policies and World Netball has now made a ruling with immediate effect.
The show must go on – and so it will, with the Commonwealth Games Federation revealing it is close to announcing the replacement host who will fill the void left by Victoria’s 2026 bid.
There’s been a new setback for the Commonwealth Games after a second country declined an offer to host the 2026 event, citing cost concerns.
A damning Auditor-General report has exposed Victoria’s Commonwealth Games debacle as one of the greatest blunders in Australian sport.
Australian Olympic supremo John Coates says the looming death of the Commonwealth Games is proof that the 2032 Brisbane Games must be delivered to a tight budget.
Aussie swimming great Emma McKeon has opened the door to her relationship with Olympic hopeful Cody Simpson.
Tanielle Crase is a three-time national heptathlon champion, but the financial strains of chasing her Olympic dream forced the Paris hopeful out of the country and to take massive risks in the pursuit of glory on the world stage.
As they try to go one better from their Tokyo silver, the Kookaburras have named a 27-player squad — with an ominous Paris warning from their hard-nosed coach. SEE THE SQUAD
The future of the Commonwealth Games remains up in the air after the only Aussie city interested in hosting the event backed out.
Despite Franco-Australian relations hitting rock bottom after the AUKUS pact was established, the bilateral relationship appears to have turned a new page with a new deal signed-off.
A peak sporting body has delivered a stinging review of former Victorian premier Dan Andrews’ decision to cancel the Commonwealth Games.
Australia’s richest person has offered a surprising new solution to save the Commonwealth Games after Victoria left its future in ruins.
A controversial $2.7bn plan to knock down and rebuild a stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics has come under scrutiny.
Victoria shocked the world by walking away from the Commonwealth Games. Officials are no closer to an answer of what is next.
A NSW teenager who is yet to finish his HSC studies has been chosen in Australia’s under-23 World Cup squad in a sign he has been earmarked as a future international star of the sport.
A key official inside Victoria’s abandoned plans for the 2026 Commonwealth Games has painted a bleak future with no host for 2030 either.
An inquiry into Victoria’s 2026 Commonwealth Games fiasco is unveiling some cold truths about the state’s reputation.
As crisis-torn Swimming Australia faces the threat of expulsion from its sport, former billionaire sponsor Gina Rinehart dropped a funding bombshell which could prove to be the final nail in the governing body’s coffin.
The premier has again declined to front an inquiry into the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games despite new requests she appear.
The conduct of the new Victorian Premier is under scrutiny after the first day of an inquiry into the Commonwealth Games fiasco.
Explosive questions have emerged about Victoria’s Commonwealth Games disaster with suggestions the timeline doesn’t add up.
Outgoing Victoria Premier Dan Andrews will leave behind a legacy marred by controversy after nine years in the job.
The Victorian state government has been accused of deliberately undermining a federal inquiry into its decision to axe the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Despite every state premier ruling out hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, the peak body is hopeful it can stay in Australia – but they need help.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate is not giving up hopes of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Australia’s last hope to retain the 2026 Commonwealth Games rests with a Queensland mayor who believes his city can deliver.
Two partners of a big-four firm have been lashed for their “rubbish” answers during a probe into the bungled 2026 Commonwealth Games.
An outspoken mayor with Commonwealth Games experience has furiously unleashed on the Victorian government, which has been forced to fork out $380m for the botched games.
The Premier has doubled down on his decision to cancel the Commonwealth Games in the wake of an eye-watering fine.
Australia’s richest person has thrown her support behind a bid for an Aussie city to host the Games for the second time in eight years.
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