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Travis Head.

Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban

Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.

  • Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig

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Peta Bradley wearing the racing suit she wore at the World Ice Swimming Championships, on her property in Armatree, NSW.

Peta trains in a frozen cattle trough. She just became a swimming world champion

Hailing from a tiny town in regional NSW, Peta Bradley is an unlikely ice swimming champion. She says the pain is what motivates her.

  • Frances Howe
Alyssa Healy gives Nitschke a spray after Australia won the 2023 T20 World Cup. This year they were knocked out in the semis.

‘They were picking on a kid … gutless’: The ultra-competitive woman behind our greatest sporting team

England were sledging a young Meg Lanning. The teammate who stepped in is now coaching Australia in a historic Ashes series.

  • Peter Hanlon

IOC needs to take a binary position on transgender participation in women’s sport

The current framework is weak, vague and contributed to the invective that surrounded Imane Khelif at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Sebastian Coe presents as a welcome agent of change.

  • Darren Kane
Nineteen years after his first involvement with Fortescue, Lord Seb Coe has bought some shares.

‘If you do not protect women’s sport it will not end well’: Coe’s pitch for IOC presidency

World Athletics head Sebastian Coe has vowed to shift the IOC’s emphasis from human rights to biology if he succeeds Thomas Bach.

  • Oliver Brown
Nina Kennedy capped her brilliant season with an eighth straight win.

‘The girls were out for blood tonight’: Australian star ends golden season with Diamond glory

Nina Kennedy has soared to one final glorious triumph of her glittering pole vault season, taking the Diamond League crown in Brussels to add to her Olympic gold from Paris.

  • Ian Chadband
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Dual Olympic bronze medallist Jemima Montag, Paralympic gold medallist Emily Petricola, and Australian Opal captain and bronze medallist Tess Madgen interact with excited fans at Melbourne Park.

Victorian athletes feted in Melbourne as Paralympian calls for gender equity

Melbourne Park gave returning Olympic and Paralympic athletes a hero’s welcome on Saturday – and gold medallist Emily Petricola had a message for the International Paralympic Committee.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Ava Godrey is one of the skateboarding stars of Queens of the Concrete. She is pictured with documentary maker Eliza Cox at Riverslide park by the Yarra.

Queens of Concrete: Life after the Olympic skateboarding dream

Australian Arisa Trew triumphed with a gold medal at the Paris Olympics, but the journey for girls in skateboarding isn’t straightforward, as a new film shows.

  • Cara Waters
Great Britain players Jasmine Joyce, Celia Quansah and Ellie Boatman pose for the ‘Strong Is Beautiful’ campaign for London lingerie brand Bluebella.

Sorry, but rugby players posing in lingerie in 2024 is not ‘regressive’

Just as female athletes are transcending stereotypes, their agency is being stripped by former female athletes applying the very paternalistic lens they themselves sought to escape.

  • Emma Kemp
Doveton Steelers Rugby League Club Secretary Sheelagh Howarth standing on the field at Betulah Reserve, with junior players (far left, clockwise) Isaiah (8), Brooklyn (8), Evie (12), Lemafoe (9), Nani (9), and Campbell (8).

As Origin hits the MCG, rugby league is growing faster in Victoria than in any other state

As State of Origin II draws tourists and eyeballs to the MCG on Wednesday, Victoria’s rugby league clubs are the fastest growing across the country as men and women of all ages embrace the sport.

  • Roy Ward

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