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Paris Paralympics 2024
How a cheating scandal engulfed rowing before Aussie power duo won gold
Rower Erik Horrie snagged bronze when an Italian was found to have breached competition rules mid-race, before Nikki Ayers and Jed Altschwager won Australia’s first Paralympic gold medal for rowing.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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How a British man became the first person to win Olympic medals in women’s and men’s events
The Olympic regatta produced a quirky twist on the gender debate gripping the Games in Paris.
- by Rob Harris
‘She’s in it with us’: Bronzed rowers pay tribute to Rinehart after being pipped on the line
Rinehart has been prominent on the sidelines at the Games, often dressed in white, wearing a green and gold silk scarf, with Panama hat and sunglasses and clutching a giant stuffed toy boxing kangaroo.
- by Rob Harris
The huge gold medal gamble that’s already backfired – and it could get worse
An ambitious move to shift the focus from one of Australia’s long-standing Olympic traditions to chase gold in a blue riband event has already come at a heavy price.
- by Rob Harris
The drag race of rowing: How Australia plans to break a 124-year drought in the eights
To win at the Olympics in the blue-ribbon eights event, you need a crew that is part-football team, part-orchestra. In 124 years of trying, Australia has never struck gold.
- by Iain Payten
Jean beat a brain tumour; now she’s focused on rowing for Australia in Paris
Jean Mitchell was the fittest she had been when a throbbing feeling in the back of her neck flipped her world upside down.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Are Australia about to go all-in to hunt Olympic rowing’s white whale?
In over 120 years, Australia’s best result in the blue riband coxed eights event is a pair of silver medals. Rowing chiefs are considering a plan to go one better in Paris.
- by Iain Payten
Former Australian spy dies competing in world’s ‘toughest’ rowing race
Alisdair Putt, the skipper of a four-man crew rowing across the Atlantic to raise funds for charities, has died.
- by Caroline Schelle
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Business class flights to be repaid following probe into King’s School regatta trip
The King’s School has been declared non-compliant after an investigation into a trip taken by the headmaster and his wife to attend the UK’s prestigious Royal Henley Regatta.
- by Lucy Carroll
Rowing is Jeff’s life – it may have even saved his life
Paddling out into Corio Bay alone in a timber boat at age 10 spurred a lifelong passion for ‘living legend’ Jeff Sykes.
- by Carolyn Webb
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