It’s not every day you get congratulated by Justin Bieber. But then,it’s not every day you get your breakthrough win on the PGA Tour.
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.
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.
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 week after failing to snap Australia’s hoodoo of no local driver finishing on the Albert Park podium,Oscar Piastri was utterly dominant in victory in Shanghai.
Nick Kyrgios called the bombshell legal action a “special moment” for tennis and said it was widely supported by the world’s top players. But four-time major champion Carlos Alcaraz made it clear he is not one of them.
A difficult sport to watch is going to become an even rarer sight as underwater rugby loses a subaquatic pitch.
If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17,what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?