A dedicated unit at the Victorian Institute of Sport hopes to break down barriers for para-athletes,after Australia recorded its worst result in more than 30 years in Paris.
Teen sprint sensation Gout Gout now has something in Australia he hasn’t had before – competition. And it will be on show again next week.
A sellout crowd 10,000-strong headed to the Maurie Plant Meet to watch dominant junior Gout Gout run his first men’s 200-metre race. The spectacle didn’t disappoint.
Eleanor Patterson has moved to live in Italy,and changed her coach and her run-up. But she’s still winning medals. She just wants more of them to gleam gold.
Noting her own experiences and those of athletes decades before her,Flemming says the issues of gender in female sport might be complex,but they are not new.
Olli Hoare could barely walk this time last year and battled at the Paris Olympics. Now fit,he has an urgency to be the best – and to put his teenage competition in their place.
We tracked down the teenagers who were blown away by the world’s fastest man over 200m this year. Here’s what they said about the experience.
Only one Australian has done it before. But after winning silver at the world indoor championships,Lachlan Kennedy is confident that he belongs among the world’s best.
Cathy Freeman loves what she sees of global sprint sensation Gout Gout,who has driven a surge in interest for Saturday night’s Maurie Plant Meet.
Four medals on the final day,including gold and silver in the high jump,have delivered Australia not only its biggest world indoor championships haul but almost doubled its previous highest medal tally.
A 15-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand has become the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile – and he’s on his way to compete against Australia’s teenage prodigy.