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Another one of Raygun’s signature moves.

I was once team Raygun. After her heavy-handed legal threats, no more

The Australian breakdancer’s demand that a venue pay her $10,000 in legal fees over a tribute show she forced them to cancel is beyond a joke.

  • Jordan Baker

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Brendan Kerry, competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, has been banned for life from US Figure Skating.

Sport Integrity Australia intervenes in ice skating scandal

Sport Integrity Australia has appointed its own integrity officer to the peak body for ice skating to oversee a spate of complaints plaguing the sport.

  • Carla Jaeger
BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 10: Brendan Kerry of Team Australia skates during the Men Single Skating Free Skating on day six of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 10, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

Olympian denies sexual misconduct, steps down from coach role

Brendan Kerry has stood down from his coaching position in Sydney as Australian skating authorities investigate the events that led the US Centre for SafeSport to impose a lifetime ban for sexual misconduct involving a minor.

  • Carla Jaeger
Brendan Kerry, competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, has been banned for life from US Figure Skating.

Australian Winter Olympics flag bearer banned for sexual misconduct with a minor

Brendan Kerry, who was an Australian flag bearer at the Beijing Winter Olympics, has been barred from US figure skating after an investigation led by the country’s peak sports abuse authority.

  • Carla Jaeger
Australian freestyle skier Jakara Anthony clinches her fourth World Cup title in January 2024.

The ‘scaredy-cat’ skier who’s won it all

Jakara Anthony has soared from Barwon Heads to Winter Olympic glory and the pinnacle of sport. But where do you go after reaching the top of the mountain?

  • Marnie Vinall
Jakara Anthony after winning the freestyle moguls final in Almaty.

Who is Jakara Anthony, the Australian skiing sensation?

The 25-year-old from Barwon Heads has won 13 of 15 world cup competitions she’s entered this season – the greatest season ever by a moguls skier.

  • Billie Eder
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Jakara Anthony

It’s the greatest season ever by any moguls skier ... and she’s an Australian

Olympic gold medallist Jakara Anthony has claimed a record 13th gold medal in the most dominant World Cup season ever seen.

  • Ian Chadband
With Olympic medals and World Cup wins, is Norway the best sporting nation in the world?

Is a country with the population of Sydney the world’s top sporting nation?

With champions such as Erling Haaland, Casper Ruud and Ada Hegerberg, Norway is a small but mighty country when it comes to sport.

  • Billie Eder
Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova perform the death spiral spin at Squaw Valley, California,1960.

After defecting, Soviet Olympic skating great was shunned – then welcomed back

Oleg Protopopov and his wife, Ludmila Belousova, were credited with inventing ingenious variations of the “death spiral” spin and continued skating into their seventies – with the aid of an unusual routine.

Australian 1956 Olympic Team At Zuers - Left-right: Tony Aslangul, 32, sports shop owner of Melbourne, Victoria; William Day, 21, sheep farmer from Talbingo Station New South Wales; Miss Christine Davy, 21, student of Sydney, New South Wales; Ferdinand Erharter, Australian team coach of Hopfgarten-Tyrol; Frank Prihoda, machinery factory owner of Melbourne, Victoria and Robert Arnott, 32, a scientist from Sydney, New South Wales. A six-member Australian ski-team - five men and a girl, headed by Manager Robert George Chisholm of Melbourne, is training in Zuers, Austria, for the Seventh Winter Olympics to be held at Cortina, Italy, January 27 - February 5. January 11, 1956. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Frank Prihoda, who escaped communism on skis, was Australia’s oldest Olympian

Frank Prihoda escaped communist Czechoslovakia on cross-country skis, gliding silently across a frozen lake on the Czech-Austrian border.

  • Jerry Krejzar

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