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WADA makes drug testing changes after Bol ‘disaster’
Drug testers will alter how they test for the endurance drug EPO after a World Anti-Doping Agency review prompted by Australian Olympian Peter Bol’s case.
- by Michael Gleeson
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‘I can take anyone’: How Peter Bol fought back from false doping accusation to make Olympic team
He’s been wrongly accused, temporarily banned, and sidelined by a pesky hamstring injury. But Peter Bol is not only “thrilled” to be back on the Australian team for Paris 2024; he also sent a warning that he is there to win gold.
- by Michael Gleeson
Teen wins race for the ages, as Australia name first athletes for Paris
Days after her 19th birthday, Claudia Hollingsworth was among the first track and field athletes named on Australia’s team for the Paris Olympics.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Paris 2024
A week ago, Denny had COVID-19. On Saturday, he threw an Australian record
At the national titles and Olympic trials in Adelaide, the discus thrower threw bigger than he – or any Australian – has ever thrown before.
- by Michael Gleeson
Nina Kennedy won a world title with a broken back. Imagine what she can do in Paris
The 27-year-old pole vaulters had sustained a stress fracture at the end of the previous season and missed months in recovery.
- by Michael Gleeson
What’s a gold medal worth? Cash for medals in historic Olympics move
Olympic gold just got a lot more lucrative for track and field athletes in Paris.
- by Michael Gleeson
The agonising quest of Australia’s fastest man to run .02 seconds quicker
Rohan Browning has been stuck – just – on the wrong side of the 10-second barrier for years. But his coach believes he can finally join the world’s best in Paris.
- by Iain Payten
Why Australia’s two fastest women might not make the Olympic team
Australia’s renaissance in middle-distance running will deliver a national athletics championships in Adelaide like no other.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Olympics
‘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
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