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Southern Ocean makes Hobart a cruise
Round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race yachts have limped into Melbourne after a tough leg from Cape Town.
John John doubles up
John John Florence has won his second world title but Mick Fanning’s future is still undecided.
Wilson’s world title hopes end
Julian Wilson has progressed to the fourth round of the Pipeline Masters but the Australian’s world title hopes are over.
Deep and mean at Pipeline
The opening day of the season-ending Pipe Masters was a textbook barrel-fest that had thousands of spectators hollering.
Matildas, Kerr reap rewards
Sam Kerr has been honoured as the ABC Sports Personality of the Year and the Matildas as the team of the year.
Kookaburras win World League
Australian men’s hockey team comes back from Olympic disappointment to win second straight World League title.
Wiggins dips oar into new sport
Bradley Wiggins’ competitive rowing debut ended in disappointment.
IOC admit targeting Russians
The IOC has confirmed that Russia’s winter athletes have faced a higher volume of testing than those from other nations.
Wright to work after title No 2
She’s barely had time to celebrate back-to-back world surfing titles, but Tyler Wright is already planning for next year.
Child labourer to UFC contender
As a boy Francis Ngannou worked in a sandmine and never played sport. Now he might become heavyweight UFC champion.
The Wright stuff
Tyler Wright had to win her quarter-final at the Maui Pro yesterday to claim a second consecutive world crown.
Wrestler throws bout for politics
Race, religion and politics took over at the under-23 wrestling world championships.
Triathlon’s young guns seal spots
National selectors have gone for youth in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games team, leaving out Rio Olympians.
ASADA bans two for supply
A Perth doctor and a Newcastle personal trainer have been banned from working with athletes in an ASADA crackdown.
Head knocks force Wildcat out
Matt Knight no longer has to worry about another dreaded phone call he’s been forced to make too often in his NBL career.
Tasker gave east coast a lesson
Rolly Tasker had a sailing record almost unequalled in Australian sporting history.
Tokyo gold like Bradbury on water
James ‘Dick’ Sargeant’s says induction into sailing’s Hall of Fame will be ‘a wow-factor moment’ — like his 1964 gold medal.
Sailors ride Victor’s victorious ways
Victor Kovalenko came to Australia in 1997 with a backpack weighed down by Russian-English dictionaries.
Fears greyhounds going to the dogs
A vote of no confidence in Greyhound Racing Victoria’s hierarchy is being considered by a group of frustrated participants.
Chalmers laps up limelight
The Rio Games 100m freestyle champion will take to the pool in his first serious hitout since heart surgery in June.
Three-way battle goes to wire
The women’s world surfing title will be decided with a three-way shootout in Hawaii next month.
Aussie hockey teams into finals
Captain Emily Smith says the Hockeyroos can wipe the pain of their Rio Olympics failure and dish out some of their own with a win over New Zealand in the Oceania Cup final.
New skipper bags fistful of goals
New Hockeyroos skipper Emily Smith has made a flying start to her captaincy career.
Visa ‘threat to Games’
The federal government is breaking with convention by insisting that athletes obtain visas for the Commonwealth Games.
Knowles happy to impart knowledge
New Hockeyroos skipper Emily Smith has done a crash course in leadership ahead of her first match as captain tomorrow.
Why’s Sally is on tenterhooks
Sally Fitzgibbons is getting so close to a maiden world title that she must be able to taste it.
‘You’re not good for the sport’
In a competition known to be so brutal on the body, Shannon Eckstein makes it look easy. And that’s his problem.
Fitzgibbons well-placed
Australian Sally Fitzgibbons’ bid to consolidate her world surfing title lead has begun with a win.
Trump brings NFL to its knees
More than 130 NFL footballers across the US have delivered a silent rebuke to the American president.
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