Olympics & Paralympics

ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA - DECEMBER 13: Bronze medal Indra Brown of Australia celebrate during the award ceremony for the Women's FIS Freeski Final on day three of FIS Freeski Halfpipe World Cup 2025 at Genting Snow Park on December 13, 2025 in Zhangjiakou, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

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Aussie schoolgirls fast-track Olympic dreams with medals

Indra Brown’s World Cup debut has catapulted her from hoping for 2030 Olympic selection to potential Milano-Cortina qualification in just two months, while Ally Hickman confirms her potential with her first World Cup snowboard medal.

Jacquelin Magnay

Paralympic champion Lauren Parker competing at Canmore, Canada, in her bid to qualify for the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympics. Picture: Supplied

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Gold medal transformation: from triathlon champion to biathlon contender

Australian triathlon champion from Paris 2024 has learnt to ski and shoot in a bid to compete on the snow in Milan next year.

Will Swanton

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From coma to champion: BMX star’s comeback finds a new track

Five years after the BMX crash that almost claimed his life, Kai Sakakibara is back on the bike, of a different kind, and has big Paralympic plans after navigating life with a traumatic brain injury.

Emma Greenwood

Ash Gentle opens up on miscarriage battle

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She miscarried last week – now this brave Olympian is taking on a triathlon

Olympian Ashleigh Gentle is preparing to compete in the T100 Triathlon World Tour final little more than week after she miscarried. She opens up on her determination to end the “shame” women feel.

Emma Greenwood

The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) in partnership with Events Management Queensland (EMQ) announce at T100 Triathlon World Tour event will be held on the Gold Coast. Local T100 professional athlete Ashleigh Gentle happy about having a home event. Picture Glenn Hampson

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‘No shame’: Olympian reveals miscarriage to reduce stigma

Dual Olympian will compete with the best triathletes in the world this week despite a rollercoaster journey of emotions after revealing she and husband Josh Amberger lost a pregnancy last week.

Emma Greenwood

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Jessica Fox and Eddie Ockenden, Flagbearers of Team Australia, wave the flag on the athletes' parade team boat along the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

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1000+ athletes to benefit from revolutionary $50m retirement fund

Australian Olympic chiefs say they hope a new scheme will ease the financial burden on athletes and allow more to complete at multiple games. Find out full details here.

Julian Linden

Ian Thorpe in the race. Picture: Ashley Dart/CYCA

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False start as Ian Thorpe prepares for wild ride in Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Ian Thorpe once made world headlines for a false start ahead of the Athens Olympics. Now he’s been involved in another on a Sydney to Hobart yacht. Cabbage Tree Island REUSLTS

Amanda Lulham

Double World Cup gold for Australia in Finland Australian mogul skiers Jakara Anthony and Matt Graham have launched their Olympic campaign in perfect fashion, claiming a double gold medal overnight at the FIS World Cup in Ruka, Finland. Picture: Chris Hocking

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Two golds: Aussies send Winter Olympics warning

Australian Olympic stars have delivered a stunning double victory at a World Cup event in Finland, sending an ominous warning to rivals.

Jacquelin Magnay and David Tanner

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Australia’s fastest schoolgirl crowned as NSW guns star at All Schools

Moguls skier Charlotte Wilson in Ruka, Finland. Picture: Jacquelin Magnay

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World-beating rookie ready to rock the Olympics

Steve Hooker with his son Maxim at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships. Picture: Mitch Bourke.

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Olympian’s son takes flight on national stage

The Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee has released its vision for the Olympic Games: 'Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032. Picture: supplied

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Slogan unveiled for Brisbane Olympics

24/10/2025 : Running sensation Gout Gout from Ipswich Grammar School, wins the Boys Open 400m race, and coach Di Sheppard, Great Public Schools Association (GPS) QLD track and field championships, at QSAC, Nathan, in Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

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Gout Gout’s the ‘real deal’ – but Coe issues one warning

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Gold medal transformation: from triathlon champion to biathlon contender

Australian triathlon champion from Paris 2024 has learnt to ski and shoot in a bid to compete on the snow in Milan next year.

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From coma to champion: BMX star’s comeback finds a new track

Five years after the BMX crash that almost claimed his life, Kai Sakakibara is back on the bike, of a different kind, and has big Paralympic plans after navigating life with a traumatic brain injury.

Emma Greenwood

Womens Sport

She miscarried last week – now this brave Olympian is taking on a triathlon

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‘No shame’: Olympian reveals miscarriage to reduce stigma

Dual Olympian will compete with the best triathletes in the world this week despite a rollercoaster journey of emotions after revealing she and husband Josh Amberger lost a pregnancy last week.

Emma Greenwood

Olympics

1000+ athletes to benefit from revolutionary $50m retirement fund

Australian Olympic chiefs say they hope a new scheme will ease the financial burden on athletes and allow more to complete at multiple games. Find out full details here.

Julian Linden

Olympics

False start as Ian Thorpe prepares for wild ride in Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Ian Thorpe once made world headlines for a false start ahead of the Athens Olympics. Now he’s been involved in another on a Sydney to Hobart yacht. Cabbage Tree Island REUSLTS

Amanda Lulham

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Two golds: Aussies send Winter Olympics warning

Australian Olympic stars have delivered a stunning double victory at a World Cup event in Finland, sending an ominous warning to rivals.

Jacquelin Magnay and David Tanner

Sport

Australia’s fastest schoolgirl crowned as NSW guns star at All Schools

In 2024 the Australian All Schools athletics were all about Gout Gout. This year it was a new fastest schoolgirl, an avalanche of record and world under 20 qualifiers. Stars, standouts, top results

Amanda Lulham

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World-beating rookie ready to rock the Olympics

Australia’s secret weapon who is ready to shock the world at the Winter Games in the Olympics’s newest event.

Jacquelin Magnay

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Olympian’s son takes flight on national stage

Steve Hooker became a national hero when he won a pole vault gold medal, now he’s guiding his 12-year-old son who is competing on the national stage. Plus every meet record from All Schools 2025.

Mitch Bourke

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Slogan unveiled for Brisbane Olympics

After a year of development and consultation with 6000 people, organisers have unveiled their three-word slogan for the games: ‘Believe. Belong. Become.’

Mackenzie Scott

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Gout Gout’s the ‘real deal’ – but Coe issues one warning

World Athletics boss warns sprint prodigy Gout Gout that the next five years will make or break his career as he transitions from junior phenomenon to senior superstar.

Jacquelin Magnay

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SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - APRIL 06: Kelsey Teneti #88 of New Zealand loses control of the ball against Maddison Levi #12 of Australia at the try line during the women's cup final on day two of the HSBC SVNS Singapore at the National Stadium on April 06, 2025 in Singapore. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)

Olympic history up for grabs for our toughest, fastest, wildest women at LA Olympic

Females rugby players, paddlers and triathletes will battle for the first medals of the LA Olympics with Australia’s fastest, toughest, wildest women shooting for success.

Amanda Lulham

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Bailey is now with the Australian sevens program. Picture: Supplied

Gout Gout rival now chasing mantle of fastest man in Rugby Sevens

He’s raced against Australian teen sensation Gout Gout but this young gun wants to be the fastest man in the world on a different field of play but potentially at the same Olympics as his old rival

Amanda Lulham

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Tay Tay’s stadium to host Olympic swimming splash

From Taylor Swift concerts to Olympic swimming — inside the extraordinary plans to drop a pool into America’s most expensive stadium for the 2028 Games | VIDEO

Andrew Webster

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Fatherhood, F1 and the one medal missing from Scotty’s mantelpiece

Aussie Scotty James is a regular on the F1 track, but does his loyalty lie with fellow Melburnian, Oscar Piastri or brother-in-law, Lance Stroll? Plus, how fatherhood is inspiring him to chase gold in Milan.

Julian Linden

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TOKYO, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 15: Bronze medallist, Kurtis Marschall of Team Australia, poses for a photo with the national flag following the Men's Pole Vault Final on day three of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 at National Stadium on September 15, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Top Aussie athlete splits with coach as China circles

World championship bronze medallist has parted ways with his coach as China circles Australia’s most successful athletics coach of the past decade.

Jessica Halloran

Olympics

Adam Peaty escorted from plane by armed cops

Olympic champ escorted off plane by police

Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty was escorted off a plane by several police officers after he had returned home from his bucks party.

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For Hamish McLaughlan column.... Boxer Jason Whateley training with coach Marcos Amado at Pure Boxing Gym. . Pic: Michael Klein

‘Too much advantage’: boxing coach backs transgender ban

The Australian Sports Commission is ‘monitoring’ the International Olympic Committee’s moves to a ban on transgender women in female events, but local laws could limit action.

Brendan Bradford and Jessica Halloran

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(FILES) Gold medallist Algeria's Imane Khelif poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's 66kg final boxing category during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 9, 2024. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at the centre of a row at the 2024 Paris Olympics, has turned to sport's top court to attempt to overturn the introduction of a gender test. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said in a statement on September 1, 2025, that Khelif was challenging the global boxing federation's decision

‘About time’: IOC to ban men from women’s sport at Olympics

The long-awaited ban comes after a scientific review confirmed permanent physical advantages of male puberty.

Jacquelin Magnay

WINTER OLYMPICSOlympics

The Aussie daredevil targeting historic Winter Games triple event

Australian snowboarder Valentino Guseli is used to pushing boundaries on the slopes but come February, the daredevil will chase Winter Olympics history, something his peers deem insane.

Julian Linden

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(FILES) Newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry reacts during her first press conference during the 144th IOC Session on the day of the election of the President of the International Olympic Committee, in Costa Navarino, Greece on March 20, 2025. The best African swimmer in history and the first woman to lead world sport, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry has broken numerous barriers to become, at 41, the youngest president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since Pierre de Coubertin, on June 21, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Olympics fever hits Italy in 100 days

The Winter Olympics will soon break new ground in Milano-Cortina as the first Games under female leadership, when Italy hosts its third winter spectacle.

Kirsty Coventry

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New Hockeyroos coach Rhett Halkett and the photograph of the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medal team he wants this incarnation of the Hockeyroos to emulate.

Haunting image that spurs new Hockeyroos’ coach

Recommended by sporting legend Ric Charlesworth for the Kookaburras job, new Hockeyroos coach Rhett Halkett has made history, revealing the haunting image driving his quest for change.

Michael Randall

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Olympic volleyballer van de Velde banned from Australia

Convicted child rapist and Olympic beach volleyballer Steven van de Velde’s attempt to play at the world championships in Adelaide next month has been denied by the Australian government.

Jessica Halloran

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