Dover Heights high-flier stabbed friend’s wife in chest in drug-fuelled delirium
The woman who was stabbed has now broken her silence.
- by Jordan Baker
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Public schools ‘killing off sport’ as private school facilities grow
It has become an unequal playing field for NSW schoolchildren with inner west primary schools forced to cancel inter-school sports as some private schools promote state-of-the-art equipment.
- by Jordan Baker
French pageantry meets American razzle-dazzle in spectacular closing ceremony
A high-octane farewell to the Olympics featured a golden alien, a pianist dangling from the sky and Tom Cruise leaping from the roof of the Stade de France.
- by Jordan Baker
As It Happened: Closing ceremony concludes Paris 2024 Olympics with Tom Cruise, Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Billie Eilish
One of the most spectacular Olympics of the modern era have drawn to a close in Paris with smiling athletes, slick French pop and Snoop Dogg – as the Games head for La La Land in 2028.
- by Claire Siracusa, Marnie Vinall, Roy Ward, Jordan Baker, Megan Levy and Chris Paine
Rachael Gunn has a PhD in cultural moments. Now she’s in the middle of one
Breaking never wanted to be an Olympic sport. Now Rachael Gunn – the Australian with a PhD “who was there to get funky” – is its unlikely face.
- by Jordan Baker
She was one of the first to break at a Games. She seized the moment
She fled Afghanistan after the Taliban abducted her father. Now in Paris, Talash has found her voice on the world’s biggest stage.
- by Jordan Baker
Beneath the veneer of the Eiffel Tower and the Grand Palais, Paris had a problem
The beds sucked, the food was a disaster and the venues prioritised form over function. But there’s no denying it looked fabulous on a postcard.
- by Jordan Baker
The sport dragged into the Olympics without its consent
Dance sport bosses wanted ballroom in the Olympics. They were told to deliver breaking instead. The only problem: no one asked the breakers.
- by Jordan Baker
Revolutionaries, guillotines and skateboarding: How the Games became a postcard
Paris has been dubbed the beautiful Olympics, but that word is too weak. A string of superlatives would not do these sporting theatres justice.
- by Jordan Baker
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Paris 2024
If you blinked – or slept – you’d have missed it. And it was a ‘wild, wild feeling’
Mark it down in the record books: this was the greatest day at the greatest Games in Australian Olympic history. It was a golden blur.
- by Jordan Baker
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Paris 2024
They’re the king and queen of skateboarding – and they’re from the same town
At 21, Keegan Palmer is a two-time Olympic skateboarding champion, but the “younger generation” is nipping at his heels.
- by Jordan Baker
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