Swimming Australia has pulled off a major coup by enticing British super coach Mel Marshall to Queensland, all but ensuring the Dolphins will soon have a female trainer on the pool deck at major events.
Less than 20 months before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Australia’s signature sport is on the brink of mutiny because of an ongoing power struggle that’s trickled down from the highest levels right to the grassroots.
Blair Kinghorn experienced the agony and the joy of Test rugby after the Scotland fly-half missed a late penalty attempt in Australia’s 16-15 win at Murrayfield on Saturday.
If Kyle Chalmers wins the 100m freestyle gold medal at the Commonwealth Games it should go straight to the pool room next to his greatest accomplishments in swimming.
A Beijing Winter Olympics which saw sporting drama and milestones but was tarnished by a Russian doping scandal ended with an uplifting closing ceremony.
Step aside Eileen Gu. Hosts China have a new teenage hero at the Beijing Olympics after 17-year-old Su Yiming added an emphatic snowboard Big Air gold to his controversial silver.
Cate Campbell received so many hateful messages and criticism in the first few days after she bombed out at the 2016 Rio Olympics that she mistakenly thought she had let the whole of Australia down.