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Cameron Crombie won gold and set a new world record on day one of the world para-athletics championships in London.

Crombie wins title at world para-athletics

Australia have wasted little time in making their presence felt at the world para-athletics championships in London, with Cameron Crombie setting a world record in claiming the first event.

Tallent's Rio conqueror faces doping ban

Men's race walk

The athlete who beat Australian Jared Tallent to Olympic gold in the men's 50-kilometre walk in Rio, Matej Toth, has been suspended over an alleged breach of anti-doping rules.

Cheats never prosper? Don't bet on it

Jim Pavlidis illustration

What to do about those St Kilda footballers who last weekend revealed themselves not to have evolved since before most were born, since a time when Tony Shaw said he would use a racist epithet every week if he thought it would gain his team an edge, a time so long ago it can be found only by carbon-dating?