Named the youngest among 14 new track and field stars set for the Olympics, this Melbourne runner has done all she can to keep her head in the game as the countdown to Paris reaches 100 days.
An investigation has been launched after an “embarrassing” detail at the finish line of the Beijing half marathon sparked uproar.
He might have been cutting it fine, but Chris Mitrevski has secured a place in the Australian athletics team for the Paris Olympic Games and is among four debutants including Victorian teenage sensation Claudia Hollingsworth.
A teenage sensation has stormed to the crown of Australia’s fastest man, leaving Olympic semi-finalist Rohan Browning in his wake.
Caster Semenya has slammed World Athletics for being ‘on the wrong side of history’ after she lost an appeal to compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics without taking medication to reduce her testosterone levels to the same as he competitors.
Growing up Kelsey-Lee Barber never thought for a second she would be going to an Olympics as a javelin thrower. She actually had other plans.
Reigning javelin World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber says the Olympics feel “real again” after having her selection, with four other athletes, locked in for Tokyo 2021.
It’s hard to top a week where you break an 18-year-old Australian record and set a PB but Tokyo bound athlete Jessica Hull just has.
Darren Hicks discovered the depth of his resilience after a fatal accident at the bottom of the South Eastern Freeway. Now a paracycling world champion, he’s set his sights on Tokyo 2021. As have Kyle Chalmers and Jess Stenson. EXCLUSIVE video series.
Sporting enthusiasts, write down the name of race walker Caitlin Hannigan and each year prior to the start of a Commonwealth or Olympic Games, scan the Aussie athletics team looking for her. After all she has been thrust onto the cover of an AOC publication.
The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has rattled the medal dreams of walker Dane Bird-Smith, who is quickly making other athletes aware they do not have to go through this mental upheaval alone.
The Australian Olympic Committee has made representation to the Federal Government on behalf of athletes to be granted relief from COVID-19 restrictions.
Australian athletic golden girl Genevieve LaCaze has not had her Tokyo Olympic Games plans derailed by the coronavirus crisis. LaCaze has hopes of adding the 10,000m to her workload after already qualifying for the 3000m steeplechase.
Our best Olympic athletes have had their funding fears allayed as they adjust to the news of the Tokyo Games’ postponement.
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