‘Burst into tears’: Olympic news brings Aussie joy
The Australian team for the Paris Olympics has swelled beyond 200 with the inclusion of some emotional first-timers.
The Australian team for the Paris Olympics has swelled beyond 200 with the inclusion of some emotional first-timers.
Jess Fox is an established Olympic champion and Australian sporting star and now her younger sister will fly the flag for the first time in Paris.
More Australian gymnasts than ever before are headed to the Olympics, with a massive 11 first-timers and a teen trampoline star.
As the Olympics draw closer, the Australian diving team has been locked in with a history-maker headed to her fifth Games.
There have been extraordinary scenes at the Australian Swimming Trials with Cate Campbell’s career ending in dramatic fashion.
Cate Campbell’s bid for Olympic history might be over after she was dealt some cruel heartbreak in the closest race at the Aussie trials.
Ariarne Titmus has for the first time divulged a private text message she was sent hours before she made history.
It’s the biggest week of pop star Cody Simpson’s swimming career. It has not begun how he would have liked.
Diving legend Melissa Wu has qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, overcoming both injury and the next generation of talent to lock in her ticket to Paris.
Olympic medals will come with cash rewards for plenty of athletes but there could be more at stake for the Australian golfers in Paris.
We’re just 50 days out from the start of the Olympics, and Australian team officials are under the pump to finalise their plans. JULIAN LINDEN breaks down their biggest issues in the remaining weeks.
As Brendan Kerry continues to fight for his innocence, Australian Olympians bound for Paris will be reminded of their obligations to disclose any “integrity related matter”. JULIAN LINDEN reports.
The majority of Australia’s 12-player squad for the Olympics seems locked in – but there are spots up for grabs in Brian Goorjian’s Boomers squad. Our experts investigate those in contention.
After getting caught up in a dramatic appeal process, Jess Stenson is set compete at her fourth Olympics as a star trio of mums headline the Australian marathon team bound for Paris.
After some ugly fallout the Australian marathon team for the Olympics has been confirmed with one inclusion overcoming some remarkable obstacles.
Following a last-minute draw against China, in one of two friendlies this week ahead of Paris, Matildas’ coach Tony Gustavsson is fast approaching D-Day for the Olympic squad finalisation. ERIN SMITH details the decisions he faces.
Australia’s hockey teams are always a chance of a medal at any Olympic Games. But less than two months out from Paris, the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos have each received big wake up calls.
After waiting for days huge swell arrived at the venue for the Olympic surf competition in July but the Australian hopefuls didn’t get the results they were after as a Brazilian rival made history.
Aussie Olympic champion Sally Pearson has dropped a bomb on the Australian team just 58 days from the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Australia’s women’s marathon team for Paris is now set in stone after four-time Olympian Lisa Weightman changed her mind about appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
With 22 of Australia’s best fighting for 16 Olympic berths, there’s an unspoken reality that ends in heartbreaking agony for the six Hockeyroos ‘sisters’ coach Katrina Powell axes ahead of Paris.
A pair of Aussie Olympians are in the middle of an ugly spat over a controversial selection call for the women’s marathon team in Paris.
The men’s water polo team has shaken things up ahead of the Olympics, with selectors hoping 10 fresh Sharks will make history in Paris and bring home the men’s first ever Olympic medal.
She’s been on the dais at the past two world championships but Tara Rigney’s effort to push a Dutch legend over the weekend shows she could force a massive upset in Paris.
Boomers coach Brian Goorjian says his decision making for Paris is an ‘open book’, declaring he’ll put age aside and pick the country’s strongest squad, as the race for spots heats up.
Not many swimmers change coaches and homes so close to an Olympics, but Kyle Chalmers has, so how is the ‘King’ been able to switch lanes so quickly with Paris just around the corner?
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.
As Australia’s highest-ranked golfer Jason Day would automatically lock himself in for an Olympic spot, but is he the right man for the job with a young star on the rise also interested in the gig.
A Paris bound Olympian dropped in for a big win after a big fall as the top young surf life savers in Australia battled for glory. Aussies Youth titles news, result wrap and great photos.
The parent of an Olympic sailor has unloaded on social media after his daughter’s non-selection for the Paris Games causing drama within Sailing Australia. Read the post inside.
The coach of star Aussie pole vaulters Nina Kennedy and Kurtis Marschall has announced his shock resignation, leaving both athletes in the lurch just months out from the Paris games.
There will be 10 players from Australia’s historic bronze medal winning team in Tokyo trying to get to Paris but that team won’t include Ben Simmons.
The Matildas pulled off a 2-0 win over Mexico but can Matildas’ coach Tony Gustavsson find the right balance and mix of players in time for the Paris Olympics.
The Matildas have dominated Mexico in one of their final pre-Olympic matches. But who starred – and who stumbled – to add intrigue to Australia’s Paris plans. EVERY PLAYER RATED.
Some of Australia’s brightest medal prospects in Paris – including canoe and kayak superstar Jessica Fox – have opted out of staying at the Olympic village.
There’s a bold push from World Rugby to raid the NRL ranks ahead of the Brisbane Olympics – with Australia urged to follow their international rivals in bringing some superstar talent.
She is set to become an Olympian, with her eyes locked on winning a weightlifting gold medal at this year’s Paris Games, but Eileen Cikamatana will never forget the taunts which reduced her to tears at the start of her journey.
As a kid Jake Harvie used to slip on his grandfather’s Olympic hockey blazers – after missing out in Tokyo he is determined to get his own for Paris.
Having known her since she was 17, long time mentor and Australian women’s Rugby Sevens coach Tim Walsh has no doubt Charlotte Caslick can balance being a mum and a fourth Olympic Games in 2028.
Michael Hooper’s path to the Paris Olympics is one of the more unusual you could imagine. But it wasn’t something that just materialised after his World Cup snubbing – it’s been in his plans for nearly a decade.
Ahead of the Paris Games both the Hockeyroos and Kookaburras have names strong squads for their April Perth-based hitouts, with team legends in both squads set to celebrate milestones.
Australian Olympic sports are binding together to revolutionise fundraising to ensure potential sponsors for smaller sports won’t continue to be lost to big franchise sports.
Mary Fowler used to tape up her op shop football boots. Now she is sponsored by mega-brands like adidas, L’Oreal and Weet-Bix. She leads a new wave of bankable Olympians, writes ROBERT CRADDOCK and EMMA GREENWOOD.
They are a crew of polar opposites and fierce surf life saving rivals written off by international foes with an awful result in their first big race together. But that’s all about to change
Few outside their sport know them but that could be about to change for these sailing mates who reckon they are in with a shot of a Paris Olympic medal in a very special skiff.
Shane Rose had just qualified for a fourth Olympics when a shocking fall left him with multiple broken bones and no memory.
Aussie fan favourite Peter Bol has just four months until he is back in the blocks on the Olympic stage, but the lead into Paris hasn’t been all smooth sailing despite it being his ‘biggest year yet.’
The man tasked with leading Australia’s largest ever Olympic boxing team isn’t just satisfied, he’s confident our athletes can finish on the podium. He gives an insight into the road ahead.
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.
Australia is set to unleash 12 fighters at the Paris Olympics, after naming a record contingent, including its first female Indigenous fighter and a 120kg monster. Find out more inside.
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