Croc country to host Olympic rowing
Olympians will be paddling in crocodile-infested waters at the Brisbane Olympics.
Olympians will be paddling in crocodile-infested waters at the Brisbane Olympics.
Rowing Australia has conceded the sport will be left ‘in limbo’ with the proposed Brisbane Games venue set to fail its technical assessment, and leave them with a baffling alternate option.
Women hold some of the most powerful positions in Australian sport – and boast some of the country’s most recognisable athletes. But who really holds the power?
With the clock ticking down to the Brisbane Olympics, we’ve run our eyes over the state’s brightest young stars who could be centrestage come 2032.
Despite falling just short of Olympic gold, Aussie rowing pair Annabelle McIntyre and Jess Morrison say they have no regrets in their bold racing plan which had them pipped at the line.
The Australian men’s four has failed to defend its title from Tokyo, missing the podium in Paris in a result that is likely to place Rowing Australia under the microscope.
Lola Anderson broke down after winning a gold medal at the Olympics as a note handed to her by her dying father touched the world.
Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre may have tasted gold in Tokyo as members of the women’s four, but they’re still as hungry to right the wrongs of the women’s pair final of 2021 in Paris.
A German rower at the Paris Olympic Games has gone viral over his eye-popping name on global broadcasts of his event.
Twenty years on from the infamous ‘Lay Down Sally’ scandal, Sally Robbins has a new life but the fallout from the saga is still being out.
In 2004, Sally Robbins was written into sporting folklore after inexplicably downing tools on her team at the Athens Olympics. Twenty years on the repercussions are still being felt.
Australian rowers move so quickly they sometimes feel they are flying. Now a new team name has given them their wings, ROBERT CRADDOCK reveals.
Success on the water is a tradition for Australian Olympic teams and among the rowers heading to Paris are plenty who know how to get it done.
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