'Wake-up' call for Kookaburras after shock loss
Kookaburras coach Graham Reid is hopeful his side's shock loss to Spain will serve as a "wake-up" call for the remainder of the Olympic hockey tournament.
Kookaburras coach Graham Reid is hopeful his side's shock loss to Spain will serve as a "wake-up" call for the remainder of the Olympic hockey tournament.
The hostile war of words between Australian Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton and his Chinese rival Sun Yang has boiled over again in Rio, as the pair prepare to face in the pool in the 1500 metres.
Five minutes after the big screen at Rio's Aquatic Centre flashed up Australia's surprise bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard synchronised team diving, Anabelle Smith and Maddison Keeney stood shaking and shivering in the briefing room, ahead of the imminent medal ceremony.
Jarryd Hayne was onto something when he tried to dip his toe in Olympic rugby sevens.
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.
Catherine Skinner says her university grades were "pretty terrible." She managed to graduate with a chemical engineering degree at RMIT, but it took eight years.
Having only just qualified for the semi-finals, Australian Catherine Skinner has overcome an early deficit match to triumph in the women's trap final.
Australian Catherine Skinner will shoot for gold after winning the women's trap semi-final. She will face New Zealand's Natalie Rooney who edged American Corey Cogdell in a shoot-off.
The more Mack Horton and Sun Yang avoided contact - body, eye, incidental - the more of a contact sport this became.
Alicia Coutts has juggled her swimming career with pulling beers in Belconnen or caring for cats at the RSPCA.
Chinese sports fans and local media have turned on Australia's newest Olympic swimming sensation Mack Horton for calling home favourite Sun Yang a drug cheat.
Two Australian rowing coaches have been robbed at knifepoint near Rio's famous Ipanema Beach after attending the Australian team's informal opening ceremony on Friday night.
A last-gasp goal to Germany has denied the Matildas a crucial Rio Olympics group win, holding Australia's women to a 2-2 draw in Sao Paulo and leaving their hopes of progression in the balance.
Australian water polo captain Rhys Howden questions team's physicality after narrow loss on opening night of competition in Rio.
Two critical video referrals saved Australia's men's hockey team as they scratched out an unconvincing victory over New Zealand in the Kookaburra's first hit out of the Olympic campaign.
Given his various controversial utterances of late, Andrew Bogut might have tried to steer away from calling a group of men '"pricks" on Saturday.
Australia's world champion single sculler Kim Brennan has suffered her first loss in two years, crossing the line third in the opening day of heats at Rio's Lagoa Stadium.
As the first Australian athlete to compete both in the Paralympics and Olympics, the "country girl" from Hamilton will have her place in Australian Olympic history long after this year's Rio table tennis competition is forgotten.
Gina Rinehart's personal security team has protested that her safety could be compromised if she attends the AOC President's reception at the Edge hotel in Rio on August 15.
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.
Canberra BMX star Caroline Buchanan has spent the past four years plotting her path to Rio redemption.
No Olympic Games in the last 20 years have arrived with fewer expectations than Rio de Janeiro's.
Australia's sailing team steered their way through a tricky strait of questions about infamous Guanabara Bay, where even the most able seaman is liable either to catch or crash into something. Somehow, they managed to minimise the many risks without dismissing or trivialising them. Call it tacking tactfully.
As the Rio Olympics gets into full swing and unprecedented world record bacteria count in the outdoor water events, we provide a helpful glossary for those less experienced at watching the Olympic Games on television in this country, or those particularly expert at putting the whole deal out of their minds every four years.
Canberra rugby player Tom Cusack got a golden reminder of what the Olympic Games is about before he flew to Rio to join the world's biggest sporting party.
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