Australian Catherine Skinner wins shooting gold
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.
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.
There will be 20 current and former Canberra athletes at the Rio Olympics. Who has the best chance of chasing gold?
Every time Australian goalkeeper Lydia Williams launched a kick, the Brazilian crowd chanted a homophobic slur. It wasn't a personal attack, but it was ugly.
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.
The governor-general issued the rallying cry, but it Australian captain Anna Meares who moved all, including herself, to tears as she addressed the Olympic team.
Australia conceded the fastest goal in Olympic women's football in a spirit-sapping 2-0 loss to Canada.
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