Aussie men don't rate in Commonwealth
Not one Australian male track and field athlete is ranked the best in the Commonwealth.
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Michael Gleeson
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Renowned commentator Norman May dies, aged 88
Renowned Australian broadcaster Norman May has died, aged 88.
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.
Top guys are dirty: NZ runner
On the night Mo Farah claimed an historic successive gold medal one of the men in the field, New Zealander Zane Robertson said the top men in his sport were dirty.
Long road to Rio for Trengrove and Weightman
It was April and Jess Trengove was finally told the pain in her foot wasn't just a niggle. She had to get off her feet and stop running. For a marathon runner months out from the Olympics it was not what she wanted to hear.
IAAF to revisit intersex athlete rules
Athletics world body will revisit the vexed issue of intersex athletes and most likely appeal a court ruling blocking the sport monitoring testosterone levels in female athletes such as controversial South African runner Caster Semenya.
Kookaburras player suspended for stray stick to head
Australia will be one man down for its critical clash with Belgium after midfielder Aran Zalewski was suspended for hitting a Spanish player in the head with his stick in the last match.
Crafty Fox coasts to kayaking semi
Australia's champion kayaker, London Olympic silver medallist Jessica Fox, advanced to the semi finals with the second quickest time of the heats in the K1 at the Rio Olympics.
Boyd hits new heights, puts off retirement
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.
In Rio, love comes second for Ryan and Genevieve
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.
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