A young Australian athlete was denied her chance of competing at her first Olympic Games because of a border dispute that ended up in world sport’s highest court.
It may not be nice or fair,but comparing ourselves to athletes (and critiquing their technique) is basically an Australian national sport.
The IOC should insist that athletes enter a stadium,their rightful environment,to be introduced to the world rather than being treated like tourists coming to town.
Cecil Healy died the day after the battle of the Somme was won. More than a century later,his legacy for bravery and sportsmanship live on in Australia and France.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation would have been “pretty nervous” about Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Games had the city been given hosting rights under the previous selection process.
Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.
The spruikers of the “Doping Olympics” have so far failed to make the case for their venture,while the many arguments against it are so obvious as to be absurd.
Redland Council is hoping to parlay a whitewater centre for the 2032 Olympics into Queensland’s “Second South Bank”. But not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.
Inclusive sport is a runaway success in Sydney. At the elite level,though,queer athletes remain relatively rare.
Australian Olympic hero Peter Bol has spoken out after being provisionally suspended after failing a test for performance-enhancing drugs.
The four-time Olympic gold-medal hero revealing he arrived in the UK illegally and under a false name has put the government in an awkward position over its new policy of flying people precisely like that to Rwanda.