The greatest athlete of the 21st century? Bolt runs away with it
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The greatest athlete of the 21st century? Bolt runs away with it

ESPN’s American-centric list of the top 100 athletes of this century is a blatant attempt to bait hopeless chumps into pointless arguments – so let’s join in.

  • byMalcolm Knox

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Alleged Usain Bolt fraudster asked him for loan to repay victims

Alleged Usain Bolt fraudster asked him for loan to repay victims

Usain Bolt has lost more than $17m after an embezzlement scandal. Now the alleged fraudster is accused of asking for a loan from the Olympic legend’s management team to help cover up her scheme

  • byJim Wyss
Australian athletes to take on world in Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne

Australian athletes to take on world in Maurie Plant meet in Melbourne

Australia will bring some of the biggest names in world athletics to Melbourne next month,with $200,000 in prizemoney on offer.

  • byMichael Gleeson
‘Common woke Games’:Colonial legacy,diversity at heart of keeping event relevant

‘Common woke Games’:Colonial legacy,diversity at heart of keeping event relevant

Athletes have been told they are allowed to raise a fist on the podium in favour of racial equality or wave pride flags supporting LGBTQI rights issues during victory laps

  • byRob Harris
Move over Usain:What if Bolt is not the greatest sprinter in history?
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Move over Usain:What if Bolt is not the greatest sprinter in history?

What if there was someone else better than Usain Bolt - someone currently competing and hiding in plain sight,obscured only by a statistical error that conceals her true outlier brilliance?

  • byBen Bloom
World’s best ‘on my hit list’:Australian soars into 100m semis with 10.01s heat run

World’s best ‘on my hit list’:Australian soars into 100m semis with 10.01s heat run

Rohan Browning has delivered when the stakes were highest,in the biggest race of his life at the Olympics against the best field he has raced and ran into history for Australia.

  • byMichael Gleeson
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Jamaica still dominate the track going 1-2-3 in women’s 100m

Jamaica still dominate the track going 1-2-3 in women’s 100m

Even without Usain Bolt Jamaica still dominates sprinting at the Olympics after the Caribbean country won the clean sweep of medals in the women’s 100m

  • byMichael Gleeson
The Olympic movement want this to be the Gender Games,but they’re struggling to sell it

The Olympic movement want this to be the Gender Games,but they’re struggling to sell it

The International Olympic Committee will have men and women compete alongside each other on the track and the in the pool for the first time. So,what else is next?

  • byAdam Pengilly
‘Weird and unfair’:Spiky sprint king Bolt lashes advances in shoe tech

‘Weird and unfair’:Spiky sprint king Bolt lashes advances in shoe tech

Running in the Nike Air Zoom Maxfly,Jamaican two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce clocked the fastest women’s 100m time in 33 years on June 5.

  • byKayon Raynor
Life after Usain Bolt:who can be the fastest of them all?

Life after Usain Bolt:who can be the fastest of them all?

The great Jamaican dominated the 100 metres at the past three Olympics. Who will replace him on the dais as the quickest man in the world at this year’s Games?

  • byMichael Gleeson
Usain Bolt tests positive for COVID-19,Jamaican official says

Usain Bolt tests positive for COVID-19,Jamaican official says

Jamaica's Minister of Health says legendary sprinter Usain Bolt has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.