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Triple M’s Marty Sheargold and Australian soccer player Caitlin Foord.

Triple M parts ways with Marty Sheargold amid backlash from ‘outrageous’ Matildas comments

Sports Minister Anika Wells led a chorus of condemnation after the radio host’s inflammatory remarks about the national women’s soccer team.

  • Frances Howe

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Marty Sheargold sexist cliches “wouldn’t raise a listless titter from a laugh track”.

Marty’s sexism is sheer gold. Now, where did I put that hammer?

Triple M host strayed offside while on air, and scored a spectacular own goal.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
Marty Sheargold has come under fire for his comments about the Matildas.

Sheargold’s foul-mouthed rant went way beyond the line – even for radio

The boundaries of bad taste and outrage have become blurry, but Marty Sheargold’s staggeringly bad take on the Matildas went beyond anything we’d heard in years.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Players from the Kyneton Women’s Football Club

Ire of the Tigers: Why the women broke away from a footy ‘boys’ club’

This team has caused a stir by leaving one of football’s oldest clubs to go out on their own. But the players say they’re fighting for the betterment of women’s sport.

  • Gemma Grant
Travis Head.

Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban

Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.

  • Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig
Peta Bradley wearing the racing suit she wore at the World Ice Swimming Championships, on her property in Armatree, NSW.

Peta trains in a frozen cattle trough. She just became a swimming world champion

Hailing from a tiny town in regional NSW, Peta Bradley is an unlikely ice swimming champion. She says the pain is what motivates her.

  • Frances Howe
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Alyssa Healy gives Nitschke a spray after Australia won the 2023 T20 World Cup. This year they were knocked out in the semis.

‘They were picking on a kid … gutless’: The ultra-competitive woman behind our greatest sporting team

England were sledging a young Meg Lanning. The teammate who stepped in is now coaching Australia in a historic Ashes series.

  • Peter Hanlon

IOC needs to take a binary position on transgender participation in women’s sport

The current framework is weak, vague and contributed to the invective that surrounded Imane Khelif at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Sebastian Coe presents as a welcome agent of change.

  • Darren Kane
Nineteen years after his first involvement with Fortescue, Lord Seb Coe has bought some shares.

‘If you do not protect women’s sport it will not end well’: Coe’s pitch for IOC presidency

World Athletics head Sebastian Coe has vowed to shift the IOC’s emphasis from human rights to biology if he succeeds Thomas Bach.

  • Oliver Brown
Nina Kennedy capped her brilliant season with an eighth straight win.

‘The girls were out for blood tonight’: Australian star ends golden season with Diamond glory

Nina Kennedy has soared to one final glorious triumph of her glittering pole vault season, taking the Diamond League crown in Brussels to add to her Olympic gold from Paris.

  • Ian Chadband

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