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‘I just wanted the pain to end’: Olympic gold medallist announces sudden retirement
A member of Australia’s Olympic gold medal-winning women’s 4x100m medley team has called time on her swimming career just months before Paris.
- by Tom Decent
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Jean beat a brain tumour; now she’s focused on rowing for Australia in Paris
Jean Mitchell was the fittest she had been when a throbbing feeling in the back of her neck flipped her world upside down.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
‘A real shock’: AOC blindsided by Morseu’s two-year-old assault charge
The former Olympic basketballer was last week found guilty of one count of assault occasioning bodily harm to a woman he punched in the head repeatedly in June 2022.
- by Emma Kemp
Sam Kerr finally ruled out of Olympics – five months after knee injury
The Matildas had been bizarrely reluctant to speak definitively about her chances – until Tuesday, when coach Tony Gustavsson unveiled his squad for their upcoming friendlies against China.
- by Vince Rugari
Calf injury has Bronte Campbell racing clock for a fourth Olympic campaign
After 18 months out of the pool, Bronte Campbell promised herself she would have one more crack at making an Olympic team. Then came an injury from left field.
- by Tom Decent
Meet Australia’s king and queen of boccia ahead of the Paralympics
In 36 years of Paralympic competition, Australia has never won a gold medal in boccia. Dan Michel and Jamieson Leeson are on fire and might be on the cusp of history.
- by Tom Decent
Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion
It must be traumatic for any athlete to discover, three years on, that they competed at an Olympics against rivals who, very likely, shouldn’t have been there.
- by Darren Kane
The Canadian teen chasing Michael Phelps who can break Australian hearts
Canada’s Olympic swimming trials start this week and all eyes are on a 17-year-old who has a cat named after Michael Phelps - an athlete she could emulate in Paris.
- by Tom Decent
‘I’ve sacrificed everything’: Lydia Williams to retire from Matildas
After two decades, 103 caps, five World Cups and six Asian Cups, the 35-year-old goalkeeper will bid farewell to the national team - after her third Olympics this year in Paris.
- by Emma Kemp
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Olympics
‘Extremely heartbreaking’: Olympic medal hopeful suffers Achilles injury
Australia’s top gymnastics hope Georgia Godwin has suffered an Achilles injury just months out from Paris 2024.
- by Billie Eder
Five years ago Tiana tried boxing for the first time. Now she’s off to the Olympics
Tiana Echegaray went to a boxercise class in 2019 to keep fit and it has led her to competing at her first Olympics at the age of 30.
- by Jonathan Drennan