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Australia can still qualify for the 2020 Olympics if they beat Uzbekistan in the third place playoff on SaturdayA marauding South Korean frontline lead by Kim Dae-won has cut strips through a timid Olyroos defence to seal a 2-0 victory in their AFC U-2…
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• Performance director leaves for Queensland academy role• Warr thought to have had differences with CEO Sally MundayBritain’s preparations for the Tokyo Olympics have hit an unexpected bump with the news that Chelsea Warr has stepped down as the UK Sp…
Ever since Peter O’Connor scaled a flagpole in Athens to call out Olympic unfairness the stage was set for winning athletes to make powerful statements. So why outlaw it now?Some called him the Antelope. Others the King of Spring. But, above all, Peter…
Former bartender to miss 2020 Olympics after retiring horseGraves and Verdades burst from obscurity to reach world No 1Dressage duo helped US to rare bronze in team event in 2016Laura Graves, an Olympic bronze medalist and the United States’ top podium…
Sanctions for raising fists or taking a knee at 2020 GamesPrevious protests ‘had no effect whatsoever’, says IOCPoliticians and athletes should keep politics out of this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games to protect the event’s neutrality and its status as a p…
Mattresses will also be recycled into plastics after Tokyo 2020Organisers will make medals and torch from recycled metalsAthletes competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will sleep on bed frames made from recyclable cardboard, with mat…
Female skater severely injured after falling during rehearsalYouth Winter Olympics begin on Thursday in SwitzerlandA female skater was severely injured after falling to the ice from about 16 feet during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Youth…
Jenna McCormick’s decision to give up a brilliant AFLW career has been vindicated when the South Australian edged a step closer to representing Australia at the Olympic Games.
The official art posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, created by renowned artists such as Chris Ofili, Naoki Urasawa, Philippe Weisbecker and Viviane Sassen, have been unveiled. Each Games creates posters to promote cultural and spo…
Previous Olympic Games bids indicate the final price tag could end up being at least double the initial estimate of A$5.3bn“This could be the greatest thing that ever happened in Queensland.” If there was a gold medal for pre-Olympic bid hyperbole, the…
The Olympics and Paralympics head to Tokyo, Euro 2020 sends football fans around Europe, plus the return of the Ryder CupThe sporting year’s traditional raucous curtain-raiser, the PDC world darts final, takes place on New Year’s Day. The BDO champions…
Visions of another record Olympic medal tally are unrealistic while Gareth Southgate’s men are likely to peak after Euro 2020A decade ago, Observer Sport Monthly tried to imagine what sport would look like in 2020. China, it daringly predicted, would b…
Visions of another record Olympic medal tally are unrealistic while Gareth Southgate’s men are likely to peak after Euro 2020A decade ago, Observer Sport Monthly tried to imagine what sport would look like in 2020. China, it daringly predicted, would b…
The rise of a genial former cricketer to No.1 in the tennis world, or the triumphant return of a disgraced former Test cricket captain?