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Jessica Halloran is a Walkley award-winning sports writer. She has been covering sport for two decades and has reported from Olympic Games, world swimming and athletics championships, the rugby World Cup as well as the AFL and NRL finals series. In 2017 she wrote Jelena Dokic’s biography Unbreakable which went on to become a bestseller.

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Australia's Campbell sisters, Cate and Bronte Campbell at Dee Why in Sydney today after the AOC have told Australia's Olympian athletes to prepare for a postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics until 2021. Picture. Phil Hillyard

Campbells press pause on Tokyo dream

The Olympic dreams of hundreds of Australian athletes have been postponed – including those of the swim stars the Campbell sisters.

Jessica Halloran and Scott Gullan

AFL

23-03-20 - GWS players Heath Shaw and Toby Green on a road trip back to Melbourne.Supplied

‘Surreal’ just got real for generous Giants

Monday afternoon, and Giants stars Toby Greene and Heath Shaw were making an unexpected road trip.

Jessica Halloran

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Circus ends as Olympics, NRL roll over

The nation’s sporting fields have fallen silent as a last-ditch attempt to resist the global contagion failed.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 19: AOC Chief Executive Matt Carroll speaks to the media during an AOC press conference at the MCA Building on March 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Olympics to be postponed

This year’s Tokyo Olympic Games are set to be officially called off.

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Olympics

Simplot Ambassador and World and Olympic Champion STEVEN HOOKER will once again be leading the green-and-gold squad, and today had the honour of handing out the official team kit to some of our brightest emerging athletics stars. L-R Head of Sport at Maribyrnong Sports Academy, Jamieson Battistella, Celeste Mucci and Steve Hooker. Picture: Kylie Else

Hooker warns of athlete anxiety

Steve Hooker informed the AOC board of the growing anxiety among athletes due to the uncertainty around the Olympics.

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Defiant Coe won’t concede on Games

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, believes the Tokyo Olympics could still happen.

Jessica Halloran

AFL

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 19: Mitchell Crowden of the Dockers arrives with team mates at Perth airport prior to their flight to Melbourne for their opening game of the 2020 Season, at Perth Airport on March 19, 2020 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

AFL made right call: Swans boss

Swans chairman Andrew Pridham, who is part of the AFL’s war cabinet, said the right decision was made to play on.

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IOC not ‘in bubble’ on Tokyo plan

The AOC says the Tokyo Olympics will either go ahead or be cancelled, as it defends itself and the IOC from critics.

Jessica Halloran

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Former world swimming champion Cate Campbell is seen during training ahead of Tokyo Olympic trials at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

AIS may be locked down for Olympic athletes

The Australian Institute of Sport is being considered as a “quarantined training base” for sports in the lead up to the Olympics.

Jessica Halloran

Olympics

Fears of doping wild west in Tokyo

Anti-doping officials from around the world fear the Tokyo Olympics – if they go ahead this year – could be infested by drug cheats.

Jessica Halloran and Julian Linden

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