Today’s announcement by Queensland Premier Steven Miles to overlook recommendations as to where Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic stadium should be, provides plenty of food for thought. ROBERT CRADDOCK’s analysis.
Victorian Lauren Ryan has booked her spot at the Paris Olympics after shattering the Australian 10,000m record.
There is no match on at the Gabba on Monday but it could be the most significant day in the venue’s history, as big decisions are to come with the Olympics on the horizon.
While the IOC is remaining steadfast Olympic medals will not be retrospectively awarded, it will not interfere with sports recognising the victims of East German doping regime.
Athletics has had a ban in place on Russian athletes for years, and now WADA has followed suit, Olympic gold medallist Sally Pearson says it’s a great move for international sport.
An emergency meeting between media icon and ABC chair Ita Buttrose and Australia Olympic Committee boss John Coates has failed to end the broadcaster’s Tokyo 2020 boycott.
He describes it as the worst performance of his decade-long international athletics career. But SA long-jumper Henry Frayne says his world championships failure is firing a new approach as he targets Tokyo Olympics glory.
In a NewsLocal series tracking athletes on the road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, we meet a woman “who never knew what she wanted to be’’ until she met an Australian great.
In a race she has been trying to win for more than a decade, Olympian Genevieve Gregson has finally cracked through at the Noosa triathlon festival.
One of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen, Daley Thompson believes Brisbane has everything it needs to be an Olympic Games host.
Russian operatives attempted to steal highly confidential drug test and medical records of every Australian athlete to discredit the world as their own Olympic team faces expulsion from Tokyo.
Australia’s anti-doping boss has lit an Olympic fuse, declaring Russia should be thrown out of the Tokyo Games if it’s found to have deliberately erased positive drug tests.
AOC boss John Coates has been caught in a political storm after he was sent to defend the International Olympic Committee’s decision to move next year’s marathon away from Tokyo.
From NewsLocal Junior Sport Star winner to the world stage. What a ride Athletics Australia young gun Bendere Oboya is on.
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