Former Australian Olympic star Bronwen Knox has revealed the incredible sacrifice she made to keep her dream of becoming Australia’s first four-time women’s water polo Olympian alive. Details inside.
With the clock ticking down to the Brisbane Olympics, we’ve run our eyes over the state’s brightest young stars who could be centrestage come 2032.
21-year-old Emma Putt has been named for her first Stingers squad at the World Cup and has a choice to make – between a potential Olympic team and an elite netball career.
Queensland’s finest athletes laud the QAS Athlete Awards being reinstated after 41 finalists were unveiled. FULL LIST HERE
Two of the biggest names in Australian water polo made a surprise cameo on the Gold Coast, as Paris co-captain Blake Edwards shed light on his Olympic future.
Australia’s record-breaking Olympic feats come at a high price, including $100m in high performance funding over the past year alone.
Today she is glowing, off to the top European water polo club – a year ago Abby Andrews and the Stingers were in a ‘volatile’ position. The star reveals how they turned it around in time for Paris.
An Australian Olympian has shared a sweet video of herself showing the moment she spotted a familiar face in the crowd.
Gold medals have dominated Australia’s Games but three silver medals contained performances for the ages and will long live in our memories.
Australia Stinger Bronte Halligan was a toddler with an Olympic dream, now the daughter of NRL star, Daryl, is bringing a medal home.
As the Australian anthem started pre-match, emotions were already kicking in for the Stingers. Regardless of the result, this match was already an achievement in itself. And like they have all Olympics, they never gave up until the very end.
They have played and won Rugby World Cup finals and NRL premierships, but doting dads Phil Kearns and Daryl Halligan said nothing they ever did on the footy field tops seeing their daughters go for gold.
Observers of the women’s water polo costumes will have noted some uncomfortable features that have now been explained.
The Aussie Stingers are into an Olympic water polo gold medal match for the first time since Sydney 2000 after winning a penalty shootoout against Team USA to cap a comeback for the ages.
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