Ellen Whinnett

Ellen Whinnett is The Australian’s associate editor. She is a dual Walkley Award-winning journalist and best-selling author, with a specific interest in national security, investigations and features. She is a former political editor and foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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TOKYO, JAPAN - JULY 19: A Japan Coast Guard vessel is moored at the Tokyo Olympics athletes village on July 19, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Two South African football players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19. Other cases connected to the Games were also recently confirmed including eight Team GB members who have had to enter isolation after contact with a coronavirus case on their flight to Tokyo. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Aussie athletes trash rooms in Olympic village

Ten athletes required Covid tests after joining an unauthorised party in which rooms were trashed and cleaners called to mop up vomit.

Jacquelin Magnay and Ellen Whinnett

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Holes in walls, vomit: More details of Aussie booze-up revealed

The extent of damage caused by Australian athletes in a boozy party in the Tokyo Olympics village over the weekend has been revealed, along with the sports to which those athletes belonged.

Ellen Whinnett and Jacquelin Magnay

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Police officers stand outside the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village on July 14, 2021, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which begin on July 23. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

Aussies not at all-night village party

Australian athletes have been mingling with others in the athletes village but were not at a wild, all-night party in the village.

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Biles pulls pin on more Olympic events

Gymnastics great Simone Biles has withdrawn from the Olympic floor final, leaving the American with just one more chance of competition at the Tokyo Games, USA Gymnastics has confirmed.

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Russia’s savage response to doping allegations

Russia has angrily hit back at suggestions events involving ROC athletes are “probably not clean”, intensifying its war of words with the US.

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Nation’s heart breaks after boxer’s tearful post-fight interview

Shattered Aussie boxer Skye Nicolson has delivered one of the Olympic Games’ most heartbreaking moments after her Tokyo quarter-final defeat.

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‘As tough as Boonie’: Dad’s pride in Aussie swim starlet

Ariarne Titmus’ dad played cricket with David Boon and he reckons there are only two people as tough as the Test legend: his wife and Australia’s golden girl.

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##EMBARGO U ON SUNDAY QLD ## DO NOT USE BEFORE MAY 5# Athlete Pita Taufatofua became an internet sensation when he carried the Tongan flag at the Rio Olympics and oiled his chest. Pic Peter Wallis

Oiled-up showstopper back to steal limelight at Games opener

He was the breakout star of the Rio Olympics and now Aussie-Tongan Pita Taufatofua is contesting his third Games.

Ellen Whinnett

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‘It was a joke’: Coates responds to ceremony controversy

AOC boss John Coates says he was trying to help Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk out of a tricky political situation when he demanded that she go to Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

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Covid destroys another Olympian’s dream as cases hit 79

There are now almost 80 Games-related Covid-19 cases in Tokyo with a taekwondo athlete has been forced to withdraw from the Olympics as a result.

Jacquelin Magnay

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