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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Australia’s top gymnastics hope Georgia Godwin has suffered an Achilles injury just months out from Paris 2024.
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.
Like their female counterparts,Australia’s men’s team has qualified for the 4x100-metre Olympics relay for the first time since Sydney 2000. And they did it without even calling on the services of sprint star Rohan Browning.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation would have been “pretty nervous” about Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Games had the city been given hosting rights under the previous selection process.
How one man’s fight to change the law paved the way for Manly Swimming Club’s great legacy.
Life at the Olympics isn’t all beer and skittles. It’s way better than that.