ATHLETICS Women’s 1500m Round 1 – Linden Hall – advanced to semi-finals, Jessica Hull – advanced to semi-finals, Georgia Griffith – eliminated Women’s 200m Round 1 – Riley Day – advanced to semi-finals Women’s Pole Vault Qualifying Round – Nina Kennedy, Elizaveta Parnova – both eliminated Men’s 400m semi-finals – Steve Solomon – eliminated Women’s … Read more
Peter Bol was four years old when his family fled war-torn Sudan to a refugee camp in Egypt. After four long years in the squalor and poverty of the camp, his life changed forever when the family flew to a bright new future in Australia. Fast forward 19 years and Bol is still running – … Read more
Our beach volleyball stars have their sights set on gold: Australia’s women’s team dominates China to set up quarter-final clash at the Tokyo Games Mariafe Artacho de Solar and Taliqua Clancy beat China in quarter finals The Australians fell behind 15-13 and then 16-14, before blunting the Chinese Australia has not won women’s beach volleyball … Read more
Boomers star Patty Mills powers Australia to a win over Germany and a place in the basketball quarter-finals By Australian Associated Press Published: 07:13 EDT, 31 July 2021 | Updated: 07:13 EDT, 31 July 2021 Australia will head into the Tokyo Olympics men’s basketball finals as unbeaten group winners after making it a perfect three … Read more
The golden Games: Australia beats its London and Rio medal tallies as sailor Matt Wearn clinches gold two days before the final race By Miriah Davis For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:09 EDT, 30 July 2021 | Updated: 06:26 EDT, 30 July 2021 Australia has claimed its tenth gold medal at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, … Read more
Emma McKeon has cemented herself as swimming’s sprint queen after claiming gold in the women’s 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics ahead of her great friend Cate Campbell. The 27-year-old bounced back from the disappointment of the women’s 4x200m relay on Thursday and fought off teammate Campbell and Hong Kong’s rising star Siobhan Haughey to … Read more
Omarosa Manigault Newman, 47, ‘joins Australia’s Big Brother VIP … and is expected to go head-to-head’ with castmate Caitlyn Jenner over LGBTQ issues By Caitlyn Becker For Dailymail.com Published: 14:49 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 14:49 EDT, 29 July 2021 Reality TV veteran Omarosa Manigault Newman is returning to the Big Brother franchise and joining … Read more
Australia’s Emma McKeon dazzles with sizzling Olympic race seeing her swim to a personal best in 100m freestyle – as Aussies continue to dominate in the pool By Australian Associated Press Published: 07:02 EDT, 28 July 2021 | Updated: 07:10 EDT, 28 July 2021 Medal-hungry Emma McKeon has punched out a sizzling personal best to … Read more
Kyle Chalmers pulls off a freakish performance to rescue Australia’s 4x100m relay team and pick up a bronze medal By Australian Associated Press Published: 23:36 EDT, 25 July 2021 | Updated: 23:51 EDT, 25 July 2021 A flying anchor leg from Kyle Chalmers has lifted the Australian team to the bronze medal in the men’s … Read more
‘The most Aussie thing ever’: Australia’s Olympic athletes pass the time playing ‘backyard cricket’ inside the Tokyo athletes’ village Olympic players enjoy a game of backyard cricket in the Tokyo Athletes’ village The improvised cricket game was held inside the Tokyo Olympics accomodation 27-year-old Australian tennis player Daria Gavrilova posted the video to TikTok By … Read more