Chip Le Grand
Chip Le Grand is The Age’s chief reporter. He writes about national affairs, sport and crime, with a particular focus on Melbourne.
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Performing arts
MSO’s dark past of secret payouts, gag orders, buried complaints
A $200,000-plus payout to a senior staff member who made bullying allegations is said to be part of a troubling pattern of management and governance practices at Australia’s oldest professional orchestra.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Bum note: The predictable, avoidable MSO mess that was months in the making
The confused and complicated situation engulfing the MSO goes beyond the Israel/Palestine conflict to a cold war raging for months inside Australia’s oldest professional orchestra.
- by Chip Le Grand
The Games are a disaster, until they’re not: 10 things Brisbane can learn from Paris
It is unlikely we will see another Olympics staged with the panache of Paris 2024, but there is plenty for Brisbane to take away from the past two weeks.
- by Chip Le Grand
China have won 46 of the 56 gold medals in Olympic diving this century. Here’s why
Australia’s Cassiel Rousseau says their system enables them to work and train harder than he can.
- by Chip Le Grand
In Depth
Paris 2024
She came to fight for her country, and ended up a punching bag. So did her sport
What would it mean if boxing disappeared from the Olympics – and frankly, why should you care?
- by Chip Le Grand
Last Games of summer? IOC boss says heat may force date change
International Olympic President Thomas Bach says rising temperatures may force future Olympics to be held later in the year.
- by Chip Le Grand
Paris pauses to remember Munich and the Olympics’ darkest day, and condemn anti-Zionism
At a ceremony for the victims of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Games, the families of murdered Israeli athletes said they shared the grief of those who lost loved ones on October 7.
- by Chip Le Grand
‘By hurting her, they are hurting all the women of Algeria’: Khelif has a country in her corner
The Algerian diaspora has rallied to support their boxer.
- by Chip Le Grand
Analysis
Paris 2024
This attempt to clarify boxing’s gender row was a shambles. It also told us everything
While journalists and IBA officials exchanged verbal jabs, Algerian boxer Roumaysa Boualam, Imane Khelif’s friend, staged a dignified, one-woman protest.
- by Chip Le Grand
Tokyo was meant to be the COVID Games. It’s far, far worse in Paris
Australian swimmer Lani Pallister said she cried when she saw a faint, second red line appear on her rapid antigen test.
- by Chip Le Grand
Team USA had the school-carnival swagger but Chinese star had the blistering speed
This is the moment when the world’s best swimmers regress, for one joyous night, into adolescents drunk on school spirit.
- by Chip Le Grand
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