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‘We were actually praying for the rain’: Olympic hopeful wins Gift amid wild weather
In a Stawell Gift remarkable for even starting, let alone finishing, Jack Lacey has won the men’s final for 2024 and Chloe Mannix-Power the women’s at a waterlogged track where races were delayed and abandoned as wild weather hit.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Peter Bol recently turned 30 and got engaged. One more thing would cap his ‘biggest year yet’
After a turbulent 18 months, 800m runner Peter Bol has reconsidered ideas of retirement after Paris 2024 and is now more driven than ever to race for Australia.
- by Michael Gleeson
This Australian just smashed a 21-year-old record. Now she is heading to Paris
Melbourne distance runner Lauren Ryan has smashed a 21-year-old national record and booked herself a place on the team for Paris 2024.
- by Michael Gleeson
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