Australian swimmers and SailGP team’s unique exchange
Two of Australia’s leading sports teams – SailGPs Flying Roos and the Dolphins – are collaborating in a hunt for “little gems” to deliver lucrative triumphs on the water and Olympic medals in it.
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The $10m medal: Australia’s eye-watering Olympic price tag reveal
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Inside secret program churning out Aussie sailing gold medalists
He’s Australia’s latest Olympic champion but Matt Wearn is also a product of a sailing factory with closely guarded secrets mining gold medals at four consecutive Olympic Games
Wearn’s extraordinary comeback from couch to sailing gold
Two years ago Matt Wearn was struggling to get off the couch, find motivation and eat enough food to stop kilos falling from his lean body. Today he is a gold medallist after a crazy day at sea.
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Vinegar, Vaseline: Household items helping Aussie sailors foil rivals
They are things you could find in any kitchen, bathroom cupboard or home tool kit and they are part of Australia’s mission to rule the waves in Marseille.
Dressed for danger! Super-fast windsurfers steal sailing show
The newest Olympic sailing class – where guns dress for danger with impact vests and helmets – kicked off in a light breeze but the coolest kids in the sport still stole the show.
Drones and spying eyes, one of the most watched Aussies in Paris
Drones, cameras, boatloads of coaches. Our top medal hope in sailing at the Olympics is used to being a marked man and nothing has changed in Marseille.
Game on! Everything a competition for sailing debutant
Cards, monopoly, putting up a tent. This Olympic debutant can’t help turning everything into a competition and it could be the secret of her success as she hunts breeze and history in Paris.
From ‘idiot’ to top gun in chase for historic sailing medal
The youngest member of our sailing team has roared into top spot in the race for a historic gold but its oldest and youngest female are out of the chase for a podium at the Paris Games.
‘I’ve got to stop being an idiot’ Sailor foiled by 60 second rule
In a sport where you can still win even when last in a race and its often better to go the long way than the direct route, sailing threw another curve ball at one of Australia’s medal hopes.
‘30 knots to zero’: Handy item a horror hazard for our sailors
It’s more dangerous than a multiple Olympic champion or young gun on a hot streak. What our sailors fear most during their campaigns off Marseille.
Rugby tactics foil bruising crashes
Grae Morris loves nothing more than cracking a crash highlight reel by pushing himself to the limits in the edgy new foiling windsurfer class – as long as it not at the Olympics.
Sexy! Technology making it’s ‘dark presence’ in sailing
They created a stir when first used in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race but now these black sails will make their dark and moody presence felt in Olympic waters.
Sailing sisters on history making mission in Marseille
“Sailing sisters” Olivia Price and Evie Haseldine are chasing special history in the waters off Marseille as part of an unusual campaign for success involving tough love and plenty of tears
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