JAMAICA’S former world champion Yohan Blake is the biggest star yet to arrive for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast – and he says the only man in the world to run a faster 100m had some choice words of advice before he left home.
SALLY Pearson has altered her Commonwealth Games lead-up plans and intends to race twice in Brisbane this month.
CRAIG Mottram says his kids don’t believe him when he tells them he owned the MCG for a night at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, but he did.
IT was the event which made her a Commonwealth Games legend but Raelene Boyle cannot hide the truth … she hated it, writes Robert Craddock.
THE next lesson of Queenslander Joseph Deng’s athletics education will be to race two top Englishmen in Brisbane before his Commonwealth Games debut.
IT was dubbed “the Miracle Mile”. But by the end of the marathon, a world record holder had wilted in the extreme heat and collapsed — within sight of the finish line — after covering a gruelling 27 miles.
WITH a 50m lead heading into the final lap, reigning Olympic 5000m champion John Ngugi looked home for all money, but then Andrew Lloyd dug deep and something special happened. WATCH THE VIDEO.
OLYMPIC 1500m champion Matt Centrowitz is a left-field entry for Brisbane’s two international athletics meets this month.
AUSTRALIA’S famous dancing hurdler Michelle Jenneke is getting the jump on the hype and the haters ahead of April’s Commonwealth Games.
RECORD-BREAKING British athlete Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88, his family announced on Sunday.
AUSTRALIA endured a day to forget on day three of the world indoor athletics championships as main medal hopes Sally Pearson and Ryan Gregson crashed out in their semi-finals.
DEFENDING Commonwealth high jump champion, Eleanor Patterson, has been sensationally overlooked for selection in Australia’s 109-member team for next month’s Games.
A THIN entry of only seven other Commonwealth athletes have their names down alongside that of Sally Pearson in the 60m hurdles at the world indoor titles in Birmingham, England.
JESSICA Peris was caught with evidence of three prohibited substances in her system when ASADA conducted an out-of-competition test in October last year.
HIGH profile teen sprinter Jack Hale has appealed his non-inclusion in the Commonwealth Games 100m event.
ONE of Australia’s most consistent middle-distance performers, Jeff Riseley, has been surprisingly overlooked for the Commonwealth Games track and field team.
AUSTRALIA’S sprint king Trae Williams will top-off his Commonwealth Games preparation by measuring himself against visiting stars, including Olympic silver medallist Andre De Grasse.
SIX weeks out from the Commonwealth Games, a drugs scandal has rocked Athletics Australia, with Jessica Peris — daughter of Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris — testing positive.
SA POLE vaulter Kurtis Marschall is ready to soar for gold after securing his second-straight national title and confirming his place on the Australian team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
THE Queenslanders who swept to a trifecta in the national 400m final will not know until later this week if there will be an Australian 4×400 team at their home Commonwealth Games.
THE swings and roundabouts of life mean Brittany McGowan will race for Australia at the Commonwealth Games, possibly against the controversial Caster Semenya.
THE dilemma of Joseph Deng is the biggest issue confronting Australian selectors ahead of the naming of the Commonwealth Games track and field team.
SHE’S just 17, but has already set an example for the Australian Commonwealth Games athletes with her resilience.
A RESURGENT Ryan Gregson showed why his name needs to be added to the Commonwealth Games medal chances after a barnstorming victory in the national 1500m final.
RILEY Day will go to the Commonwealth Games reminding herself she is “only 17’’ after racing to automatic selection in the 200m which clinched the sprint double at the national championships.
EMERGENCY patients at a Gold Coast hospital could have the most prompt attention possible in a few years from one of Australia’s fastest women – rising star Riley Day.
FATHERS coaching children in sport is the source of perennial dinner table arguments but it has worked spectacularly well for Australia’s fastest man, Trae Williams.
THE dress rehearsal for the Commonwealth Games didn’t go completely to plan but Sally Pearson is confident come April things will be a lot smoother on the Gold Coast.
IT was billed as one of the races of the championships but instead Luke Mathews made the men’s 800m a one-act affair, putting the rest of the field to the sword in an impressive Commonwealth Games trial.
CEDRIC Dubler has scored a big win in the decathlon at the Commonwealth Games trials and says he has plenty in the bank for the main event.
HE’D just booked a spot in the blue-riband 100m at the Commonwealth Games. But all eyes were focused on Trae Williams’ thighs after his stunning effort.
OLYMPIC gold medallist Steve Hooker has been there and done that. And after watching the trajectory of another young Aussie, he’s hopeful Kurtis Marschall can follow in his footsteps.
TWO national titles and two automatic berths for the Commonwealth Games – not a bad day’s work for Darling Downs thrower Matthew Denny.
FABRICE Lapierre may be in the final stages of Commonwealth Games preparations but when the former world champ returned home this week all he wanted was to watch his beloved Wanderers train.
THEY say you learn a lot about yourself in the darkest times.Luke Mathews is now a believer in that theory after a tumultuous 2017 that he describes as a “rollercoaster”.
AUSTRALIA’S athletics head coach Craig Hilliard says self-coached Sally Pearson is in a “happy place’’ heading towards her Gold Coast Commonwealth Games career highlight.
GOLD Coast Commonwealth Games poster girl Sally Pearson says she is willing to do whatever job opening ceremony organisers want her to do as the city’s highest-profile current athlete.
BORING is good for Sally Pearson.That’s how she’s describing her Commonwealth Games preparation which in Sally-speak means everything is progressing exactly the way she wants.
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.
SALLY Pearson is an athlete who is hard to satisfy but even she has to concede things are ticking over nicely after she made predictably short work of the 100m hurdles Queensland titles.
COMMONWEALTH Games sprint hopeful Alex Hartmann insists his best is yet to come as he prepares for his date with destiny on the Gold Coast this month.
SALLY Pearson will chase a season-best time at the Queensland athletics championships in Brisbane on Sunday in her third 100m hurdles event of the season.
SHE’S a multiple world champion, Paralympic medallist and the defending champion of the Oz Day 10km but none of that is helping quell wheelchair racer Madison de Rozario’s nerves.
MARATHON runners Lisa Weightman and Jess Trengove are planning to help each other combat the inevitable Kenyan challenge at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
SURFER Tyler Wright’s return from a potentially season-ending knee injury to win a second world crown and Sally Pearson’s comeback to win another world title has seen the pair nominated for prestigious Laureus world sports awards.
DUAL Olympian Josh Ross, coming off three years struggling to find his true form, will use the Bay Sheffield at Colley Reserve on Thursday to kickstart his season as he chases a berth at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April.
WORLD champion Sally Pearson has been reassured about her Commonwealth Games campaign by a rollicking early-season win in Brisbane in her fastest 100m flat time in 10 years.
STEWART McSweyn created history by becoming the first King Island resident to make a Commonwealth Games team after upsetting Zatopek:10 favourite Patrick Tiernan in a thrilling finish.
REPLACING a legend is a tough gig. Just ask Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse who is being talked up as the next Usain Bolt. And his quest for greatness will start at the Commonwealth Games.
ANOTHER 100,000 ‘prime’ tickets to previously sold out events at next year’s Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games are going on sale today.
IT was one of the comebacks of the year and the accolades continue to flow for Sally Pearson who has been named as one of 10 women short-listed for the honour of IAAF World Athlete of the Year.
SA pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall will leap for gold at next year’s Commonwealth Games. But he was once a talented footballer in Adelaide’s southern suburbs who struggled to clear a 2m bar. Here is his story.
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