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Australian athletes send records tumbling in big weekend
Teen star Claudia Hollingsworth has slashed her times since finishing school and has now run a qualifier for the Paris Olympics. She rounded out an outstanding weekend for Australian athletes.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Nicola’s notebook to the rescue as Olyslagers flies to first world title
Nicola Olyslagers has soared to global glory with a last-gasp leap, claiming the high jump gold at the world indoor athletics championships in Glasgow.
- by Ian Chadband
‘An April Fools’ joke’: The long jump proposal Carl Lewis isn’t laughing about
World Athletics is considering the most radical overhaul of the long jump since it became an inaugural event of the modern Olympics in 1896.
- by Jeremy Wilson
Victorian teenager Claudia Hollingsworth upstages star-studded field
Victorian teenager Claudia Hollingsworth upstaged one of the best fields seen in Australia and Stewart McSewyn delivered his best win in three years to announce himself back in a big night of athletics.
- by Michael Gleeson
Ditch the dots: New video technology to give Aussie athletes an edge
New motion capture technology at the Victorian Institute of Sport will give Australian athletes an edge as they head towards the Paris Olympics.
- by Michael Gleeson
Flipping amazing! How gymnastics could help Nicola Olyslagers break the world record
It was a click that Australian high jumper Nicola Olyslagers had never heard before, and it has put the world on notice ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris.
- by Michael Gleeson
Why Australia’s fastest man doesn’t need to be big, buff and ripped
Australian sprint champion Rohan Browning feels stronger, lighter – and faster. He says he’s in the best shape of his career. But whether he can show it in competition is a different matter. He’ll find out on Thursday.
- by Michael Gleeson
Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum killed in car crash
The 24-year-old’s coach also died in the road accident in western Kenya, according to fellow runner Milcah Chemos.
- by Tom Odula, Mutwiri Mutuota and Gerald Imray
‘She has it all, she could be anything’: Australia’s sprint sensation
Torrie Lewis is just 19, but is already Australia’s fastest ever woman and a decade from peaking as an athlete, according to a sprinting great who says Lewis could be anything.
- by Michael Gleeson
Peter Bol won’t run in Melbourne next week
It’s not the start Peter Bol wanted to 2024 after the annus horribilis of last year when he was provisionally suspended after a positive performance enhancing drug test only to be later exonerated.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘It’s madness’: Man who dethroned Olympic superstar fuels war of words ahead of Paris rematch
Jakob Ingebrigtsen will win Olympic gold in Paris. He sees his prediction as a statement of the obvious, not hubris. There’s just one catch: he has been beaten at the last two world championships. His rival thinks Ingebrigtsen’s confidence is madness.
- by Michael Gleeson