National steeplechase champion Max Stevens should be preparing to punch his ticket to Tokyo. Instead the SA athlete is wondering when his next Olympic opportunity will emerge, as the coronavirus halts world sport.
Australia’s track cycling team for the Tokyo Olympics includes three debutants aged 20 and under. But Alex Manly and Cameron Meyer – who have 11 world titles between them – have been overlooked.
It rates as one of the most unflattering nicknames in sport but it’s part of the reason this young athlete is now having a crack at making the Tokyo Olympics.
A Tokyo Olympic Games hopeful has finally broken an SA record for the 800m that has stood for nearly 50 years. Read what the old star, a 1972 Olympian, thought about the current champ breaking his old record.
Kayaker Lachlan Tame only has to look at his credit card statement to know the price of wanting to pull on an Australian uniform and race for glory again at the Tokyo Olympics.
Not going to Tokyo? You could well get a preview of the battle for the Olympic gold on Sydney’s northern beaches this week.
They may look serene when they compete but being an artistic swimmer is harder work than you might think according to Randwick’s Kiera Gazzard.
It started as a father and son bonding exercise but now Joshua Bell has the chance to turn his passion in this sport into a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics.
It’s been bugging them for four long years and it is what is driving sailing cousins Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin for the Tokyo Olympics.
She moved across the country to achieve her sporting dream but Amie Thompson’s sacrifice is now paying off in spades.
Taliqua Clancy’s mother was just 17 when she had her and as a single parent in country Queensland did everything to encourage her daughter to chase her dream. Listen to her inspiring story on the Black Australia Podcast.
The funny reason this athlete left his home in France to live and train in Penrith in Sydney’s west.
It is quite seriously a miracle these two sailors are heading to the Tokyo Olympics with one almost killed in the pursuit of her sport.
A quartet of the state’s Olympic hopefuls have rejected calls for the Tokyo Games to be cancelled, in the wake of a senior IOC official’s concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.
The rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus has affected the first Australian team bound for Tokyo as fears rise about countries closing borders and throwing Olympic preparations into disarray.
There’s been too many cases of Olympians having to sell their medals and memorabilia just to make ends meet. So the Australian Olympic Committee has stepped into to fix this mess.
Australia can thank two athletes for qualifying it a place at the Tokyo Olympics in a new Olympic category on the water. For one athlete there is a constant battle against cancer to contend with.
Some of Australia’s smartest sporting brains are now helping the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia 76ers and Arsenal, leading many to ask: what the hell happened to the Australian Institute of Sport?
They won a silver on debut at the Rio Olympics. But Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin are still waiting to hear if they will even get a chance to chase gold in Tokyo.
Penrith teenager Sophie Wilson had dreams of representing Australia on the world stage as a gymnast but her body had different ideas. Now she’s doing it in a completely different sport.
It’s the smelly, green obstacle standing in the way of cousins Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin’s quest for redemption at the Tokyo Olympics.
He’s got his sights set on a spot at the Tokyo Olympics later this year but Rugby Sevens star Lachie Anderson has another sporting dream as well.
Hard work on her weakest leg has delivered paratriathlete Lauren Parker her first success in what is shaping as the biggest year of her career.
Both of Australia’s men’s and women’s teams admit they have underperformed at recent Olympics but they’re willing to go to push themselves to their limits to turn it around in Tokyo
She’s only 18 but Sydney Rugby Sevens gun Jakiya Whitfield already owns one very cool nickname along – with an Australian uniform.
WHEN Australia returned from the Montreal Games with a solitary gold medal there was a sense of national embarrassment. The current funding freeze has an eerie feeling of deja vu, writes Julian Linden.
THE prospect of Australia producing any future Olympic heroes is on life support unless the Federal Government commits an extra $60m per year in funding.
SOMEHOW Flames coach Cheryl Chambers has managed to find a silver lining in her teams 3-0 start to the WNBL season.
SHARK attack survivor Bethany Hamilton will contest her first competition since 2017 and four months after having her second child after securing one of the hottest tickets in world surfing.
OLYMPIC gold medal beach volleyballer Natalie Cook has shared intimate details and pictures of her long-awaited legal marriage to a fellow female player at an idyllic Queensland hideaway.
SOUTH Australian runner Jess Trengove has emerged from the torture of the Commonwealth Games marathon with a bronze medal and renewed focus as she sets her sights on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
AUSTRALIANS will make up one half of the women’s quarter-final field at the Margaret River Pro after a shark attack at Gracetown saw the world tour competition put on hold on Monday.
SHE’S won six world crowns and claimed 27 world tour wins so there aren’t a lot of waves left for Stephanie Gilmore to conquer. But there is one right here at home.
THE man hoping to follow in Mick Fanning’s footsteps as Australia’s next world surf champion admits he is still feeling the effects of a shoulder injury which could have ended his season.
DEFENDING Margaret River Pro champion Sally Fitzgibbons has pain but is no longer seriously impeded by a foot injury which has confined her to a moon boot out of the water for three weeks.
MICK Fanning must beat a mate and Stephanie Gilmore “a zappy pocket rocket” to keep alive a bid by the former champions to claim Australia’s first men’s and women’s double at the Rip Curl Pro since 2012.
MICK Fanning is gearing up to step off the world surf tour but he will still play a major role in Australia stepping onto the top step of the medal dais at the Tokyo Olympics.
SHE will go into the annual world tour event at Bells Beach as the top ranked Australian woman but it’s not who you would expect it to be.
ONE sailed the world, another rules the world and others are helping create a new world order in the sport of sailing. We look at what’s happening in the sport on International Women’s Day.
DEFENDING Roxy Pro champion Stephanie Gilmore says she feels she has at least “another world title in me’’ as she preps for her defence of the Roxy Pro crown in the women’s world tour opener on the Gold Coast.
THEY are the fearless teen tyros of surf with the right moves to create waves as the sport surges towards its first Olympic appearance.
STEPHANIE Gilmore says Australia will be a major player at the inaugural Davis Cup-style surfing teams event in Kelly Slater’s wave pool but is already planning extra time in the gym to prepare for it.
DUAL Olympian Jessica Fox is back on top of the world with an international award acknowledging her status as one of her sports leading paddlers
JAPAN has snared one of the best young surfers in the world for a tilt at representing the host nation in surfing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but another is staying in Australian colours.
LAST year’s world tour rookie of the year Connor O’Leary subscribes to the theory that practice makes perfect.
SALLY Fitzgibbons is preparing to face a slew of “danger surfers” during her quest for a world surfing crown. And there’s one young star she’s particularly wary of.
She’s the high-flying mother of two and gold medallist aiming to reach new heights at the Winter Olympics. All the mail on LYDIA LASSILA.
YOUNG Sydney surfer Holly Wawn has emerged as a contender to cause major trouble for some of the biggest names in women’s surfing in the lead-up to the opening event of the world tour
SALLY Pearson will throw her hat into the ring for the chance to race a second event at the Commonwealth Games if Australia opts to field a relay team on the Gold Coast.
FOR surfer Julian Wilson pink is the colour of victory, the hue reminding him how hard his mum Nola fought in her battle to overcome beast cancer — twice.
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