Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
It was April and Jess Trengove was finally told the pain in her foot wasn't just a niggle. She had to get off her feet and stop running. For a marathon runner months out from the Olympics it was not what she wanted to hear.
Athletics world body will revisit the vexed issue of intersex athletes and most likely appeal a court ruling blocking the sport monitoring testosterone levels in female athletes such as controversial South African runner Caster Semenya.
Australia will be one man down for its critical clash with Belgium after midfielder Aran Zalewski was suspended for hitting a Spanish player in the head with his stick in the last match.
Australia's champion kayaker, London Olympic silver medallist Jessica Fox, advanced to the semi finals with the second quickest time of the heats in the K1 at the Rio Olympics.
Australian pole vaulter Alana Boyd was going to retire. She told us so last year. This was going to be it, the samba-dancing, Brazilian carnivale end to a fine career.
Gen LaCaze and Ryan Gregson have been together for three years. When the athletics start the two middle distance runners will put the Olympics first.
New Athletics Australia director John Steffensen previously coached and recently mentored a Maltese runner, who also won Commonwealth gold for Australia, and has been banned from the Rio Olympics after failing a drug test.
Australian sprinter Alex Hartmann knocked back abdominal surgery to compete at his first Olympics after a mystery stomach bug caused him to lose 10 kilograms in four days just weeks out from the Rio Games.
For a girl who has so much time ahead of her Jess Thornton has to put time behind her.
Three years ago Kurtis Marschall met Steve Hooker for the first time. He knew Hooker had never seen him pole vault, had probably not even heard of him, but he asked the Olympic and world champion what he could change to be better.
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