The new Australian schools coach knows the type of player he wants to find at the Australian schools rugby championships for his team – and it’s not just tough guys and speedsters.
He might already be connected with a famous NRL club but this son of a rugby league great isn’t lost to rugby – just yet at least.Australian schools rugby favourites, squads and guns to watch.
There’s country and city teens on a mission and fired-up young guns with a point to prove. It makes them the most dangerous team at the Australian schools rugby championships this week.
Out of favour Hockeyroo Rosie Malone has discovered her fate after appealing the decision to leave her out of the Paris Olympics team. Discover the result of the tribunal here.
Australia’s No.1 competitive eater James Webb is in pursuit of his first mustard-yellow belt at the famous Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. He weighs in on the Joey Chestnut controversy, what it means for his chances and what he really thinks of hot dogs.
Olympic champion Keegan Palmer has faced a rocky lead up to Paris, having to take a month ‘off the board’ to recover from a series of injuries as he prepares to defend his Olympic title.
He’s been coached by a famous Olympian and is now one of the fastest teenagers in rugby – and potentially at the upcoming world rugby U20 championships in South Africa.
They might have been on the back foot most of the season but there’s good reason Tom Slingsby and his Aussie crew are now upbeat about winning their fourth straight SailGP.
It was an injury which left teammates in shock and this young footballer wondering if he would ever play sport again. Then he got a phone call and a ticket to impress.
New life has been blown into surf life saving’s iron series with a new backer and a cutthroat format to help develop a new wave of medal-ready athletes for surf’s Brisbane 2032 Olympics push.
Banned from competing in Queensland, 35 kids will travel 19 hours in a bus to the closest competition that will let the children participate this weekend, reports SHANNON GILL.
98 gymnastics venues around Australia have ceased affiliation of their recreational programs with the sport’s governing bodies despite the threat of competition bans reports SHANNON GILL.
It may not be as glamorous the last time Torrie Lewis raced in a Diamond League event in China, but the Aussie teen sensation is still the star of the show as she eased her way into the final race in Fiji.
Australian surfer Olivia Ottaway almost lost her life at Teahupo’o last year. This is how she won the battle, miraculously returned to the surf, and her desire to conquer that same wave.
The future of Australian rugby isn’t just big, athletic and skilled – it’s smart. What Australian selectors are looking for in our generation next players in the Waratahs v Reds U18 rematch.
21-year-old Molly Picklum has one more wave to ride before the Olympics, and says that she will use the fear of her competitors to her advantage as she prepares for the world’s heaviest wave.
It was considered beyond human capability, to run under four minutes for the mile. But 70 years ago this week, Roger Bannister smashed it, beating Australia’s John Landy to be first.
In a massive show of strength five different athletes won seven medals each at the Australian surf life saving championships but one stood out from the pack. Aussies 2024 top guns.
The Hockeyroos leave Australian soil victorious with an easy, if wasteful, win over Japan and star striker Rosie Malone says the commitment to a little experimentation now will go a long way toward success in Paris.
Debutants will be ruling the waves for Australia at the Paris Olympics with one medal hopeful named on two special teams on the same day in a remarkable coincidence.
It’s been a nursery for Olympic talent since it began but if international life saving can rustle enough support these everyday heroes will be able to stay at the beach to follow their dream.
There’s speedsters, sisters and rising guns but this team is minus multiple superstar names but the one Australian surf life saving believes will star at the world championships later this year.
He’s the youngest male in the Paris Olympic sailing team with a big dream starting to look like it could become a reality to the surprise of many – but not Grae Morris.
A “country club” surf life saver has become only the fourth NSW ironman in 25 year to win at the Australian titles as two childhood rivals went head-to-head for the ironwoman crown
It’s been rated a significant moment in surf life saving history and if the smiles and cheers at the first inclusive beach and surf races at the Aussies are an indication – one of its most popular.
In nearly 60 years of racing at the Aussies incredibly there have only been 25 different ironman champions. So who’s the best? We ask one of the greats who has plenty of stories to tell.
They win so much that it’s only when they don’t that it causes a stir. But Georgia Miller and Ali Day are now on course for a special place in history at the Aussies surf life saving titles.
Kaylee McKeown has put her Olympic rivals on notice with a blistering performance in the 200m individual medley, in which she set a new Australian record on her way to victory.
It’s a haul so incredible it’s hard to believe. But this surf life saver has to be one of our most prolific Australian champions – in any sport. Masters day one winners, grinners.
NSW and Queensland tend to rule the waves in one of the most competitive divisions of the Australian surf life saving champs but not always. Under 17s guns to watch at Aussies 2024.
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