Car pile up near Rio Olympic Park injures three journalists: reports
Day 10 of Olympic competition in Rio started again with news of two mishaps certain to annoy organisers.
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Brennan's former partner calls for athlete funding overhaul
Kim Brennan's former rowing partner has called on Australia to adopt a more reliable and aggressive talent funding program.
Olympic golf proves to be up to par as Rose wins
If for argument's sake it is accepted that there should be a place at all for golf at the Olympics, it just about works. Justin Rose was the ideologically proper winner if you consider something he said to Australian Marcus Fraser over dinner in Hong Kong some years ago, that he would play every major, every year, if there was no prizemoney. That's the Olympic spirit, or was.
Women's players hope for more LGBT acceptance in NBA
Less than a week after the subtle revelation that WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne is gay, the story had all but died.
Wells keen to lead from the front in Rio
Canberra 400-metre hurdler Lauren Wells isn't ready to join the "veteran club" just yet.
Rio Olympics 2016 Live Day 10: All the action from Rio de Janeiro
Welcome to our live coverage of day 10 of competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Bolt flashes cheeky smile before 100m final clash at Rio Olympics
Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt has streaked into the final of the men's 100 metres at the Rio Olympics with a cheeky mid-race grin at his rivals.
Team USA may have to get used to close games
Close games for the USA against some of the best national teams in the world might just be the norm for the remainder of the men's Olympic basketball competition.
Russian jumper gets last-minute reprieve
An appeals court has ruled that Russian long jumper Darya Klishina should be allowed to compete in the Rio Games, overturning an 11th-hour decision by track and field's world governing body.
Celebrity chefs turn wasted Olympics food into meals for homeless
With donated ingredients and some of the world’s top chefs, Refettorio Gastromotiva has become a feel-good counterpoint to the commercialization of the Games.
Starc jumps into final while the world watches Bolt
Brandon Starc had one jump left. It was the last jump of the night. It was the last jump of a night that no one, it seemed, was watching the high jump.
Tired, emotional, successful... Mack Horton wouldn't change a thing about his dramatic week
The 400m freestyle champion on Sun Yang, performing under pressure and how being an international nobody helped him become an Olympic somebody.
Cycle: Caroline Buchanan aims for BMX redemption
Australian BMX star Caroline Buchanan has brought the motor, the mongrel and the magic to the Rio Olympics.
The seven-time Olympian who took on Simone Biles
Never heard of Oksana Chusovitina? You probably should have, and not just because she was one of the eight women who qualified for the women's vault final.
Bolt issues challenge to new track star
The worlds greatest ever sprinter, Usain Bolt, wants to take on new 400m record holder Wayde Van Niekerk over 300m.
'I thought I'd go faster': Bolt wins 100m
Usain Bolt thought he would go faster. He considered it with the detached reflection of a man who knew he would win and only queried how quickly he would go.
Boomers' Goulding shines ahead of quarters
It was Chris Goulding's time to shine in the Boomers' 81-56 win over Venezuela on Sunday night.
Bolt and Gatlin was more than just a race to the line
The fastest man on earth is Usain Bolt. Still. And, if you ask Bolt, forever. "Somebody said I can become Immortal," he said after winning the 100m final in Rio in 9.81 seconds. "Two more medals and I can sign off 'Immortal'."
Van Niekerk breaks Johnson's world record as great grandmother trains him to glory
The secret weapon behind the new fastest man on the planet over 400 metres is a 74-year-old great grandmother.
Last Australian team out of beach volleyball
Australian beach volleyballers Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy are saying goodbye to Rio after losing to three-time gold medallist Kerri Walsh Jennings and her playing partner April Ross.
How Australia's cycling campaign went flat
Australian cycling is desperately trying to pump itself up, but its campaign in Rio has already been decidedly flattened by results below expectation and a string of calamitous events in and out of competition.
'Disgusting, disrespectful': Rio crowd accused as Brazilian gymnasts make history
"We never give up," said Carlos Nuzman, the president of the Rio Olympics organising committee; and nor have Brazilian crowds. Their partisanship, noteworthy throughout the games, finally paid off with a raucous performance on Sunday delivering medals to two home gymnasts.
Britain rises as Australia falls
Great Britain's resurgence as an Olympic nation has coincided with Australia's decline in fortunes.
Bolt beats Gatlin in 100m final
Usain Bolt has confirmed himself as irrefutably the greatest sprinter of all time after winning a third successive Olympic 100m gold medal.
'I can still be like Cathy Freeman': Aussie Morgan Mitchell misses 400m final
Not since Cathy Freeman in 2000 has an Australian reached the women's 400 metre final. That now 16 years and counting.
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