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ACT athletics championships: Rohan Browning beats Jack Hale, Melissa Breen out injured

ACT athletics championships: Rohan Browning beats Jack Hale, Melissa Breen out injured

Australia's rising sprinters went head to head at the AIS on Friday in a mouthwatering battle on the track.

  • by Chris Dutton

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Queanbeyan Gift winner Andrea Thompson says world champ Sally Pearson on a 'different planet'
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Queanbeyan Gift winner Andrea Thompson says world champ Sally Pearson on a 'different planet'

Queanbeyan's Andrea Thompson will race the world champ as part of her heptathlon preparations.

  • by David Polkinghorne
US Olympic gold medal sprinter Gil Roberts uses 'passionate kissing' defence in doping case

US Olympic gold medal sprinter Gil Roberts uses 'passionate kissing' defence in doping case

The moral to this story is that it is perfectly OK to passionately kiss your mate, even if he or she has a sinus infection.

  • by Rebecca R. Ruiz
Canberra master takes on young gun Jack Hale at ACT athletics championships
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Canberra master takes on young gun Jack Hale at ACT athletics championships

Canberra masters sprinter Adam Farlow will hide his grey hairs from the young guns of Australian sprinting.

  • by David Polkinghorne
Jack Hale personal best 100m time scuppered by officials' error

Jack Hale personal best 100m time scuppered by officials' error

Teen sprint star Jack Hale might have been the fourth-fastest Australian man over 100m in history but for a blunder by West Australian athletics officials.

  • by Emma Kemp
World champ Sally Pearson to run at ACT athletics championships
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World champ Sally Pearson to run at ACT athletics championships

Two-time world champion Sally Pearson can attract "Usain Bolt-like" crowds.

  • by David Polkinghorne
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Commonwealth Games help Paralympic star Evan O'Hanlon become world champion
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Commonwealth Games help Paralympic star Evan O'Hanlon become world champion

If it wasn't for the Commonwealth Games, Canberra sprinter Evan O'Hanlon wouldn't be the reigning world champion.

  • by David Polkinghorne
Canberra's Beki Smith wins Australian 10km race walking title
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Canberra's Beki Smith wins Australian 10km race walking title

Now Canberra's Beki Smith has her fingers crossed she'll compete at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

  • by David Polkinghorne
Justin Gatlin's tests to be run again after doping expose

Justin Gatlin's tests to be run again after doping expose

Justin Gatlin's previous drugs tests are to be re-run in the light of an investigation by the London Telegraph, sources have revealed.

  • by Hayley Dixon, Claire Newell, Callum Adams and Luke Heighton
Athletics and doping: how far we've come and how far we have to go

Athletics and doping: how far we've come and how far we have to go

These new allegations regarding doping in sport show two things: how far we have come in the fight against doping in sport and how far we have yet to go, writes former WADA president Dick Pound.

  • by Dick Pound
Breaking the Gatlin scandal: how did they do it?

Breaking the Gatlin scandal: how did they do it?

Justin Gatlin is at the centre of a new doping scandal after an undercover investigation by the UK's The Daily Telegraph - but how did they do it?

  • by Claire Newell, Daniel Foggo, Luke Heighton, Hayley Dixon and Callum Adams