How a cheating scandal engulfed rowing before Aussie power duo won gold

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.

  • bySophie Aubrey

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Cutting it in local government
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Cutting it in local government

While the Ashbury supercoach makes the charts.

How a British man became the first person to win Olympic medals in women’s and men’s events
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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.

  • byRob Harris
‘She’s in it with us’:Bronzed rowers pay tribute to Rinehart after being pipped on the line

‘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.

  • byRob Harris
The huge gold medal gamble that’s already backfired – and it could get worse

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.

  • byRob Harris
The drag race of rowing:How Australia plans to break a 124-year drought in the eights

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.

  • byIain Payten
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Jean beat a brain tumour;now she’s focused on rowing for Australia in Paris

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.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
Are Australia about to go all-in to hunt Olympic rowing’s white whale?

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.

  • byIain Payten
Former Australian spy dies competing in world’s ‘toughest’ rowing race

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.

  • byCaroline Schelle
Business class flights to be repaid following probe into King’s School regatta trip
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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.

  • byLucy Carroll
Rowing is Jeff’s life – it may have even saved his life

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.

  • byCarolyn Webb