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Steffensen comes full circle with Athletics Australia role

John Steffensen

John Steffensen is calling it straight. Of course he is. Big things have changed since he was cast an enfant terrible of the last Australian Olympic team. But in sporting retirement the man who generated hot headlines aplenty during his 12-year professional sprint career has hardly become a wallflower.

Russian athletes lose Rio appeal

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The appeal by the Russian Olympic Committee and 68 of its track and field athletes against the ban from the Rio Olympics has been rejected, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced.

Putin blow as IOC orders retest of Russian samples

Russia and the Olympics

Vladimir Putin was dealt a humiliating blow to his 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics yesterday when the International Olympic Committee ordered every Russian doping sample from the event to be retested while it "explores legal options" over whether to implement a total ban on the country

Rio Olympics: Russia facing the axe

IOC president Thomas Bach.

Russia's participation in next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics is hanging in the balance ahead of the release in Toronto of a report into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

Aussie beats Olympians in Hamburg triathlon

Good result: Jake Birtwhistle.

Tasmanian youngster Jake Birtwhistle beat all three of Australian Olympic men's team as he claimed a World Triathlon Series silver medal in dramatic circumstances in Hamburg, Germany.