What Trump win means for Olympic bid raceDONALD Trump’s election as US president has the potential to influence Los Angeles’ chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics.
Rio medallist’s ugly feud with own countrySOUTH AFRICA’s sports minister has branded Sunette Viljoen, the country’s Olympic javelin silver medallist, as ‘the most arrogant and thankless person... I’ve ever met’ in an angry spat.
Olympic heroes share spoilsOLYMPIC champions Kyle Chalmers and Mack Horton split the honours at Swimming Australia’s annual Gala Dinner in Brisbane.
Evans’ high hopes for WA swim futureDUAL Olympian Blair Evans says she’s confident WA’s expanded high-performance program will lead to more local swimmers reaching the sport’s pinnacle.
Fox clears name after leaked medical recordOLYMPIC medallist Jess Fox says she was eager to distance herself from suspicious athletes after her medical records from the Rio Games were hacked by Russians.
More SportsFirst Aussie cliff-diving world champ wants Olympics nodA FEW years ago Rhiannan Iffland was a show diver on a cruise ship. Today she became the first cliff-diving world champion from Australia, and now she wants to see the sport at the Olympics.
Boyd retires ‘proud and thankful’THE lure of a Commonwealth Games hat-trick on home soil has not proven enough to keep Australian Olympic pole vaulter Alana Boyd away from retirement.
More SportsOlympic legend retires at 23CHINA’S five-time Olympic champion diver Chen Ruolin has retired aged just 23, bringing one of the sport’s most spectacular careers to an early halt.
Gold medallists haven’t received their $20kAUSTRALIAN athletes who won gold at the Rio Olympics get a $20,000 bonus. But two months after the Games, they say they’re yet to see the money.
Cycling‘I’m so proud but it’s time to step aside’ANNA Meares has confirmed her retirement from cycling saying she would have loved to ride on to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018 but her body has simply had enough.
CyclingWilloughby back to ‘work’ in rehabAUSTRALIAN BMX cyclist Sam Willoughby has begun rehab following a training accident that left him with no movement below his chest.
Olympian pays high price for sexPOLE vaulter Shawn Barber sought a casual hook up on Craigslist ‘to relieve stress’. He got a lot more than he was hoping for.
36 Olympic boxing judges, refs barredTHREE dozen boxing referees and judges who officiated at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics have been barred from working at further world-level events until an investigation is completed.
McKeon: ‘The support was just amazing’EMMA McKeon was told she couldn’t dance after Kitty Chiller banned her from the Rio closing ceremony. What happen next will go down in Australian Olympic folklore.
Rome’s 2024 Olympic bid buriedROME’S ill-fated bid to host the 2024 Olympics has ended after the city council voted in favour of the new mayor’s request to withdraw support for it.
More Sports’Embarrassing’ setback for Tokyo 2020A TOKYO panel on has urged changes to three venues for the 2020 Olympics in the face of ballooning costs.
Kenya’s Olympic leader charged with stealing $256kKENYA’S team leader at the Rio Olympics is accused of stealing $256,000 from government and sports authorities meant for the athletes’ and officials’ stay at the games.
‘No regrets’ for retiring WA gymnast MitchellAUSTRALIA’S most successful gymnast Lauren Mitchell says she’ll retire from the sport with no regrets after making up her mind while holidaying in Europe.
Paralympians stinky secret to successIT’S often stinky, comes in all shapes and sizes and it’s what helped sailor Liesl Tesch and skipper Dan Fitzgibbons defend their Paralympic gold in Rio.
More SportsDumped Kookaburra’s ‘three-day bender’AN Aussie hockey star has opened up on his non-selection for the Olympics with a brutally honest blog that reveals his forecast of the Kookaburras Rio flop.
Olympic coaches pay price for strippingWORLD Wrestling has banned two Mongolian coaches for three years for their bizarre protest during the Olympics.
More SportsParalympics lesson for OlympiansAUSTRALIA’S outstanding success in the Rio Paralympics is an object lesson to the administrators and high profile athletes who represented this country in the Olympic Games.
Fox, Watts new voices of Aussie OlympiansRIO Olympians and good mates Jessica Fox and Shelley Watts are the new female faces on the Australian Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission.
More SportsStaggering cost of Brazil’s mega-event runBRAZIL spent an estimated $30 billion on hosting the some of the biggest events on the planet over the past three years. So was it all worth it?
Look out Tokyo! young Aussies have 2020 visionAUSTRALIA hit its target of a top-five finish in Rio – and team chef de mission Kate McLoughlin has predicted the ‘sky’s the limit’ for Tokyo in 2020.
All the Aussie medal winners from RioAUSTRALIA has maintained its top five ranking from London at the Rio Paralympics, winning 81 medals, including 22 golds. That’s plenty of reason to celebrate.
More SportsAussies grab gold in Murderball thrillerRYLEY Batt was the star as Australia closed the Paralympic Games with a stunning defence of their London 2012 wheelchair rugby gold-medal breakthrough.
More SportsFearnley misses fairytale gold by one secondAUSSIE star Kurt Fearnley won his fourth straight medal at a Paralympic wheelchair marathon in Rio. But it wasn’t the colour he wanted most.
Rio flag-bearer: From the battlefield to goldINJURED soldier and para-canoe gold medallist Curtis McGrath will carry our nation’s flag at this morning’s Paralympic Games closing ceremony in Rio.
Silver lining for golden Aussie regattaA ZIG instead of a zag, a protest and a jury’s finding has robbed Australia of a stunning gold-medal sweep in sailing’s farewell to the Paralympic Games.
Tokyo’s big plans to meet Paralympics standardTOKYO’S 2020 Paralympic Games will force an overdue drive to open up the city’s confined streets, doorways and buildings to benefit people with disabilities.
‘It’s taken me so long so I’m going to enjoy it’IT’S taken 12 years, three Paralympics and a major Games health scare, but Aussie middle distance runner Michael Roeger finally has his medal.
Cuts ‘not to blame’ for Paralympic tragedyPARALYMPICS chiefs have denied Rio 2016’s service cuts following its Olympics budget blowout might have contributed to the death of an Iranian cyclist.
Silver still satisfying as young gun eyes TokyoFIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Aussie Isis Holt finished second in her T35 200m final, making it back-to-back silvers in the 100m and 200m in her Paralympics debut.
Rio gold rush sets up top five finishAUSTRALIA’S dream of a top-five Paralympic Games finish came closer to reality with another bumper gold medal haul on a successful day nine in Rio.
Cole beats personal demons to take goldELLIE Cole overcame rolling self-doubt to break a string of near-misses with a 100m backstroke gold that marked her first individual victory in Rio.
Aussie Olympians’ medical records hackedOLYMPIC rowing champion Kim Brennan is one of three Australians to have confidential medical data published by Russian cyber espionage group ‘Fancy Bears’.
Paralympic legends prepare for final showdownTHE Rio Paralympic wheelchair marathon brings the curtain down on the careers of two legends in Aussie champion Kurt Fearnley and British great David Weir.
Samurai inspires Aussie cyclist to Paralympic medalAUSSIE cyclist Stuart Tripp says the inspiration behind his rise from “lost” car crash victim to Paralympic medallist is a 500-year-old Japanese swordsman.
Kane more than able as Aussies strike goldAUSTRALIA’S gold rush finally arrived on day eight of the Rio Paralympic Games, as the Aussies stormed into a top-five medal spot with four more golds.
‘Excellence is kind of bred into the town’SCOTT Reardon’s Paralympic gold medal in the T42 100m sprint at Rio’s Olympic Stadium maintains tiny Temora’s standing as a home of sporting champions.
Aussie war veteran wins goldWOUNDED soldier Curtis McGrath has gone from the Afghanistan battlefield to Paralympic Games glory, winning gold in his KL2 para-canoe event.
Alcott’s perfect response to bulliesSIXTEEN years ago, Dylan Alcott was bullied in school for being overweight and in a wheelchair. Now he’s a dual Paralympian tennis gold medallist. VIDEO.
Era over as Rollers miss medalsCOACH Ben Ettridge concedes the Rollers “didn’t pay the jersey enough respect” as they leave the Paralympics without a medal for the first time in 16 years.
Australia’s most inspirational sport-hopperTWO serious car crashes may have crushed his body and forced him to switch sports, but they could not crush the spirit of the racer within Australian paracanoeist Colin Sieders.
Ex-F1 driver Zanardi dominates at ParalympicsNEARLY 15 years to the day he lost his legs in an auto racing crash in Germany, Italian athlete Alex Zanardi captured a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics.
No arms but archer finds his targetUNITED States archer Matt Stutzman last year hit a target with a single arrow from 283m. It’s a Guinness world record. And he did it without arms.
100m silver for Year 9 schoolgirl HoltTEEN sprint sensation Isis Holt has added a Paralympic Games silver to her world championship golden double, finishing second in her T35 100m final.
McGrath’s special tribute to fallen matesIN Australia, a country built on sport and its Anzac heritage, what more compelling story could there be than a wounded soldier fighting for gold on the global stage?
Best mates combine to win thrilling goldAUSSIES Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson have clawed their way back from big second and third set deficits to win quad doubles gold at the Rio Paralympics.