Olympians to get early access to COVID jab
Australian athletes in the Olympics will be able to get COVID-19 jabs before the games, with ‘some’ who may beat vulnerable priority groups.
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New wheels certain to get young gun rolling
Role models like three-time Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley can really get things rolling. Just ask Josh Brass, who has plenty of road to cover to match his idol, but now he has wheels to do it.
Dynamic duo: Aussies name Para leaders
AFTER a horror crash in Sochi Joany Badenhorst wondered if her dream of competing in a Winter Paralympics was over before it began.
Madison comes up roses at world titles
WHEELCHAIR racer Madison de Rozario showed timing is everything as she raced off with gold and silver in a successful 24 hours at the Para-Athletics world titles in London.
Teen ‘over the moon’ with second world title
SCHOOLGIRL Isis Holt was surprised when she won her first world title this week. Now the teen is “over the moon” after picking up another – along with a world record.
Schoolgirl avenges Rio loss with world title
TEENAGE athletic star Isis Holt has avenged her loss in Rio a year ago to claim gold in the 200m final – at the age of 16.
Triathletes rewarded for Rio golden moment
IT was some of the most memorable moments of last years Paralympics and it has earned Katie Kelly and guide Michellie Jones top honours at their sports awards.
Fearnley sets new Oz Day 10km record
OZ Day 10km record breaker Kurt Fearnley admits wins don’t come as easily as they used to but still plans to push on until at least the Commonwealth Games.
Who’s Australia’s top sportswoman?
WHO is Australia’s top sportswoman in 2016? Have your say and VOTE in the Swoop People’s Choice awards.
Elliott claims top honour at Paralympic awards
STAR swimmer Maddison Elliott’s three gold medals at Rio was rewarded on Thursday when she was named female Paralympian of the year.
Swimmers, cyclist and triathlete in line for award
A TRIO of swimmers, a cyclist and a triathlete are all in the running for one of the top accolades at the Australian Paralympic Awards
Tesch creating waves off the water
SHE’S the basketballer who made a big splash in world sailing. And Liesl Tesch continues to make waves off the water.
Short and Sweet: Droughts broken and extended
THERE was good news for a triathletes and a basketball team but not for the Wallaroos and some of our top rowers. SHORT AND SWEET sport wrap.
Brennan, Payne in line for The Don
THE year’s brightest sporting stars will tonight vie for The Don Award at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame induction and awards ceremony.
Paralympic sailors left high and dry
THE entire cast of Australia’s most successful team at the Paralympics has been forced off the water and into premature Games retirement with their sport booted from the Tokyo 2020.
‘Lucky’ home with medal haul
AUSTRALIA’S most inspirational swimming star “Lucky’’ Patterson arrived home from Rio this week with six medals in her luggage.
Paralympians stinky secret to success
IT’S often stinky, comes in all shapes and sizes and it’s what helped sailor Liesl Tesch and skipper Dan Fitzgibbons defend their Paralympic gold in Rio.
Paralympic Games: That’s a wrap
IT was the second biggest sporting event in 2016 behind the Olympics. But this time Australia cracked the top five. Our wrap of the Paralympic Games.
Paralympics lesson for Olympians
AUSTRALIA’S outstanding success in the Rio Paralympics is an object lesson to the administrators and high profile athletes who represented this country in the Olympic Games.
Fearnley misses fairytale gold by one second
AUSSIE star Kurt Fearnley won his fourth straight medal at a Paralympic wheelchair marathon in Rio. But it wasn’t the colour he wanted most.
Play of the Weekend: Paralympic team
THEY achieved what they said they would and they did it in style. It’s why the Australian Paralympic team has won Swoop PLAY OF THE WEEKEND.
Look out Tokyo! young Aussies have 2020 vision
AUSTRALIA hit its target of a top-five finish in Rio – and team chef de mission Kate McLoughlin has predicted the ‘sky’s the limit’ for Tokyo in 2020.
All the Aussie medal winners from Rio
AUSTRALIA has maintained its top five ranking from London at the Rio Paralympics, winning 81 medals, including 22 golds. That’s plenty of reason to celebrate.
Aussies grab gold in Murderball thriller
RYLEY Batt was the star as Australia closed the Paralympic Games with a stunning defence of their London 2012 wheelchair rugby gold-medal breakthrough.
Rio flag-bearer: From the battlefield to gold
INJURED soldier and para-canoe gold medallist Curtis McGrath will carry our nation’s flag at this morning’s Paralympic Games closing ceremony in Rio.
Rio gold helps ease bullying torment
BULLYING victim Tiffany Thomas Kane says winning a gold medal at her debut Paralympics takes away the pain of what she’s gone through.
Cuts ‘not to blame’ for Paralympic tragedy
PARALYMPICS chiefs have denied Rio 2016’s service cuts following its Olympics budget blowout might have contributed to the death of an Iranian cyclist.
Silver lining for golden Aussie regatta
A ZIG instead of a zag, a protest and a jury’s finding has robbed Australia of a stunning gold-medal sweep in sailing’s farewell to the Paralympic Games.
Tokyo’s big plans to meet Paralympics standard
TOKYO’S 2020 Paralympic Games will force an overdue drive to open up the city’s confined streets, doorways and buildings to benefit people with disabilities.
‘It’s taken me so long so I’m going to enjoy it’
IT’S taken 12 years, three Paralympics and a major Games health scare, but Aussie middle distance runner Michael Roeger finally has his medal.
Silver still satisfying as young gun eyes Tokyo
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Aussie Isis Holt finished second in her T35 200m final, making it back-to-back silvers in the 100m and 200m in her Paralympics debut.
Rio gold rush sets up top five finish
AUSTRALIA’S dream of a top-five Paralympic Games finish came closer to reality with another bumper gold medal haul on a successful day nine in Rio.
Cole beats personal demons to take gold
ELLIE Cole overcame rolling self-doubt to break a string of near-misses with a 100m backstroke gold that marked her first individual victory in Rio.
Paralympic legends prepare for final showdown
THE Rio Paralympic wheelchair marathon brings the curtain down on the careers of two legends in Aussie champion Kurt Fearnley and British great David Weir.
Samurai inspires Aussie cyclist to Paralympic medal
AUSSIE cyclist Stuart Tripp says the inspiration behind his rise from “lost” car crash victim to Paralympic medallist is a 500-year-old Japanese swordsman.
Kane more than able as Aussies strike gold
AUSTRALIA’S gold rush finally arrived on day eight of the Rio Paralympic Games, as the Aussies stormed into a top-five medal spot with four more golds.
‘Excellence is kind of bred into the town’
SCOTT Reardon’s Paralympic gold medal in the T42 100m sprint at Rio’s Olympic Stadium maintains tiny Temora’s standing as a home of sporting champions.
Why Paralympians listen to their medals
ELATED athletes holding medals up to their ears in delight will be one of the enduring images of the Paralympic Games in Rio.
Aussie war veteran wins gold
WOUNDED soldier Curtis McGrath has gone from the Afghanistan battlefield to Paralympic Games glory, winning gold in his KL2 para-canoe event.
Alcott’s perfect response to bullies
SIXTEEN years ago, Dylan Alcott was bullied in school for being overweight and in a wheelchair. Now he’s a dual Paralympian tennis gold medallist. VIDEO.
Archer breaks record with no arms
LAST year, Matt Stutzman smashed a world record, hitting a target with a single arrow from two-and-a-half footy fields away.
Era over as Rollers miss medals
COACH Ben Ettridge concedes the Rollers “didn’t pay the jersey enough respect” as they leave the Paralympics without a medal for the first time in 16 years.
100m silver for Year 9 schoolgirl Holt
TEEN sprint sensation Isis Holt has added a Paralympic Games silver to her world championship golden double, finishing second in her T35 100m final.
Ex-F1 driver Zanardi dominates at Paralympics
NEARLY 15 years to the day he lost his legs in an auto racing crash in Germany, Italian athlete Alex Zanardi captured a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics.
No arms but archer finds his target
UNITED States archer Matt Stutzman last year hit a target with a single arrow from 283m. It’s a Guinness world record. And he did it without arms.
McGrath’s special tribute to fallen mates
IN Australia, a country built on sport and its Anzac heritage, what more compelling story could there be than a wounded soldier fighting for gold on the global stage?
Best mates combine to win thrilling gold
AUSSIES Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson have clawed their way back from big second and third set deficits to win quad doubles gold at the Rio Paralympics.
10 most awesome images from Rio Paralympics
FROM a table tennis player with no arms to a cyclist missing half of his left leg, the 2016 Paralympic Games have provided some remarkable images.
Double dose of tough goalball news for Aussies
AUSTRALIA’S fairytale Paralympic Games goalball journey has ended in elimination, but coach Peter Corr insists his players will emerge a stronger group.
Shock as O’Hanlon loses, steps away from track
THE fastest Australian Paralympian of all time, Evan O’Hanlon, has come second in the T38 100m final in Rio, missing out on a hat-trick of gold medals in the event.
Fencer beats future father-in-law
POLISH fencer Adrian Castro is thanking his lucky stars he won the approval of his future father-in-law before the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Golden Rio moment provides tears of joy
SOUTH Australia’s Brayden Davidson brought tears to everyone eyes when he secured Australia’s first athletics gold medal of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games with a record-busting leap of 5.62m.
Aussie S9 100m legend grows as more gold flows
TIMOTHY Disken stretched Australia’s reign in the S9 100m to a fourth straight Paralympics, winning the second of the nation’s two gold medals on day five in Rio.
Dylan surfing a wave of support into Rio
PARALYMPIAN Dylan Alcott loves to crowdsurf at music festivals – in his wheelchair.
Blinded Paralympian scores amazing goal
VISUALLY impaired Behzad Zadaliasghari showed off some impeccable ball control, and a tidy finish, with what has to be the goal of the Paralympic Games in Rio.
Young gun ends Aussie medal drought with silver
HE learnt the game against the backdrop of Abu Dhabi’s golden sand, but table tennis player Sam von Einem says silver is his new favourite colour.
Paralympic stunner: Faster than able-bodied
SOMETHING extraordinary has happened at the Paralympics, with not one but four runners outdoing the gold medallist in the same race at the Rio Olympics.
Fifty-year-old debutant has got the power
A 50-year-old mother-of-three from Kazakhstan has upstaged younger rivals to claim a powerlifting silver medal in her Paralympic Games debut.
15-year-old jocks key to Fearnley’s bronze
“WHEN I wake up and I see those jocks I know it’s a big day.” Kurt Fearnley’s lucky undies delivered again with the Paralympic star taking bronze in the 5000m.
Medal bound von Einem breaks 32 year hoodoo
ADELAIDE’s Sam von Einem is set to deliver Australia’s first Paralympic table tennis medal in 32 years after winning through to the gold-medal playoff in Rio.
Belles make noise in silent world of goalball
THEY were only confirmed for Rio 10 days out from the opening ceremony. But now the Aussie Belles are making a big impression in the silent world of goalball.
‘I never thought I could play a sport at all’
DAN Michel – the most physically impaired athlete on the Aussie team in Rio – is the perfect reason for the Paralympics to exist, for para-sport to be.
Aussies find golden touch as Kelly, Elliott star
KATIE Kelly created history as Australia’s first para-triathlon medallist while swimming stars Maddison Elliott and Lakeisha Patterson finished gold and silver.
Paralympian: I’m not ready yet for euthanasia
BELGIAN Paralympian Marieke Vervoort is still considering euthanasia to escape a life of unbearable physical pain — only not quite yet.
High-jumper hits jackpot after taking gold
AN Indian high jumper who had never slept in a real bed before last year has leapt into a life of luxury after winning Paralympics gold.
Play of the Weekend: Jessica Gallagher
IT took just a little over a minute for Jessica Gallagher to create history in Rio. To be exact, 1:08.171. And it has won her SWOOP Play of the Weekend.
High-jumper hits jackpot with gold medal leap
AN Indian high jumper who had never slept in a real bed before last year has leapt into a life of luxury after winning Paralympics gold.
Aussie outrage as goalball rivals fail to turn up
AUSTRALIA’S women’s goalball coach has slammed rival Algeria for “embarrassing” the Paralympic movement with a first-round forfeit.
Aussie Rio medal haul grows but golds elusive
AUSTRALIA has gone gold-less on a day that disgraced cyclist Michael Gallagher was due to shoot for a third successive Paralympic Games victory.
Stories behind our Paralympians
THEY are teachers, advocates, adventurers, cafe owners, AFL referees and Newcastle Knights fans and they are set to take the world by storm in Rio.
Brenden is pure gold
PETRIE’S Brenden Hall asserted his dominance of the pool in the only way he knows how – with a golden swim at the Rio Paralympic Games.
Aussie’s stunning piece of Games history
CYCLIST Jess Gallagher has grabbed a slice of Australian sporting history, becoming the nation’s first athlete to medal at both the summer and winter Games.
Meet the cut-price Aussie basketball superstars
AUSTRALIA’S most successful basketball group is not the Boomers, or even the Opals. It’s the Rollers and they are hot on the trail of redemption.
White Tiger grabs bronze behind sprint legend
IRISH sprinter Jason Smyth has emulated the great Usain Bolt in Rio while young Aussie Chad Perris grabbed bronze with what he described as an ‘awesome’ run.
The Michael Jordan of Murderball
RYLEY Batt is normally calm and collected but when he takes the floor he’s a “bit of a head case” — something that helps the four-time Paralympian become such a murderball weapon.
Young swimmer wins first Aussie gold in Rio
THE Queensland teen who claimed Australia’s first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Paralympics concedes her win was a “bitter-sweet” demolition of her childhood idol.
Silver lining for Pole after Sydney torment
IT has taken 16 long years but Polish discus thrower Robert Jachimowicz says he has finally won justice following his Sydney Paralympic Games heartbreak.
Gallagher on track for historic double
JESS Gallagher is aiming to create history as the first Australian athlete – Olympian or Paralympian – to win medals at both the winter and summer Games.
Fearnley’s support for Russian rival
PARALYMPIC legend Kurt Fearnley has implored a Russian rival shattered by the federation’s blanket Rio ban to fight through the wreckage and return for Tokyo 2020.
Tough fight for Brock to keep his dream afloat
BROCK Ingram has learnt to write with his opposite hand. “It’s still neater than the doctors’ handwriting, anyway,” he grins.
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