Big Olympics change is a massive step too far
Baseball, cricket, lacrosse, flag football and squash are officially Olympic sports. What’s next? The looming introduction of a booming sport has been labelled an insult.
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Just add water! Weird way our sailors are training for America’s Cup
It’s the weird, slightly wacky way our sailors are training for the youth and women’s America’s Cup involving a $200,00 computer game craned into an office kilometres from the nearest waterway.
Olympics bound: Top young Aussie baseballers destined for 2028 Games
Baseball’s inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games has opened the door for the next generation of Aussie players to play for a gold medal. Meet the young guns who could represent Australia at the Games.
Aussie wins SailGP Cadiz – just not the one expected to
There was an Aussie on the winners podium at the end of the Spanish leg of the SailGP series in Cadiz but it wasn’t the one everyone expected. So what happened?
Panic as Hockeyroos’ most promising star injured
Viewers held their breath as Australia’s most promising young Hockeyroo, midfielder Amy Lawton, hobbled off. Check our likes and dislikes from round two of Hockey One.
Pain game! Iconic Coolangatta Gold tests the best – and the rest
From first timers to the favourites, there’s one experience every competitor in the 2023 Coolangatta Gold will share – pain. Race preview, guns to watch, interesting facts ahead of the surf enduro
Kenyan phenom smashes Kipchoge’s marathon world record
Kelvin Kiptum sometimes runs more than 300km per week in training and the Kenyan phenom has just smashed compatriot Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon world record at age 23.
Trauma on trauma: How Wright defied life-threatening illness and tragedy
Tyler Wright wants to add to her two world surfing titles; wants to stand on top of the Olympic dais. But these goals will be done on her terms after she was almost lost to everything and everyone.
Hockey One: Likes and dislikes from Round 1
While Brisbane looked unstoppable against Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne struggled to finish in their season openers. See all the likes and dislikes from Round 1 of Hockey One.
Winging it! Aussie who skipped uni to become SailGP star
For someone who hated school it sounds like the job from hell. Work all day then bunker down for hours of homework. But it is this Australian SailGP gun’s dream job.
‘It was terrible’: Slow motion agony for Aussie SailGP team
If they were allowed to paddle they could possibly have won their first event of the season. Instead, a crazy final race deprived the Australian SailGP crew of any chance of a win in Italy.
World Cup: The transgender event nobody wants to enter
World Aquatics’ open category event has flopped on its first outing with no athletes registering to race at the event in Berlin.
Biles in spectacular ‘once in lifetime’ return
The 26-year-old made history by becoming the first female gymnast to execute a ‘Yurchenko double pike vault’ now renamed ‘Biles II’, burying the nightmare of her 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
In a league of their own! Cross coders out to make Super Rugby U16s mark
It’s got a new name and a new generation of youngsters about to hit the big stage for the first time. The Super Rugby 16s series also has a sensational trio of league players in the NSW Waratahs.
Rising schools, U18 rugby teens unveiled to take on New Zealand
They are the teenage rugby stars working to be “winning Wallabies” in the next few years now facing their biggest test to date – beating their New Zealand opposites. TEAM NAMED
Supercars season opener in the air amid Newcastle wrangling
A key piece of the Supercars calendar for 2024 remains in the air amid wrangling over a major street event.
‘Hugely motivated’: Waratahs point to prove in race for Aussie spots
They are the young NSW rugby players with the most powerful motivation possible ahead of their battle with the Queensland Reds today – proving a point.
A-listers throw support behind Aussies in SailGP comeback
They had a super yacht of Aussie celebrities and A-listers watching on and Tom Slingsby and his crew put on quite a show in a battle with an old and famous SailGP rival in France.
Inside one of world sailing’s biggest blow-up’s ahead of SailGP battle
SailGP gun Tom Slingsby and a New Zealand foe engaged in an on-water stoush and war of words the last time they clashed in France but there’s more to this relationship than meets the eye.
Four to the fore: Aussies in race for WSL title
Tyler Wright could confirm her status as one of the sports greats while Ethan Ewing is on track for a miraculous comeback as four Aussies fight for the world surfing title in California.
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