The 2026 Commonwealth Games have reportedly been revived after spending a year under threat following Victoria’s dramatic decision to withdraw from hosting. The event was already on the brink before Victoria agreed to host it as a regional event, a significant shift from the success of Melbourne 2006 in the afterglow of the Sydney 2000 … Read more
British singing superstar Adele paused mid-performance during a concert in Munich at the weekend to praise Australian breakdancer Raygun for her effort, saying it was her “favourite” Olympic moment. Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, who goes by Raygun, went viral after receiving a score of zero for her routine in the inaugural women’s breaking competition in … Read more
New Zealand’s historic Olympics campaign, with a record 10 gold medals to finish 11th on the medal table, has ended on a sour note after the country was left out of the closing ceremony in Paris. Well, sort of. The Stade de France event got underway on Sunday with a spectacular stage in the centre … Read more
Australian duo Matthew Richardson and Matthew Glaetzer have won silver and bronze respectively in a chaotic keirin final on Sunday night (AEST). Richardson looked a sneaky chance of taking gold, but Dutch great Harrie Lavreysen had too much power during the blistering sprint. Richardson, who had already won a silver and bronze in Paris, finished … Read more
Simone Biles has finished up her Paris campaign with silver, her 11th Olympic medal overall, after a routine that featured a perfectly ‘petty’ act towards judges who earlier felt disrespected by the American gymnastics superstar and penalised her. Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade became the first gymnast to beat Biles in a floor final in a major … Read more
Romanian Olympic wrestler Catalina Axente has been carried out of Champ-de-Mars Arena on a stretcher after a scary incident during her fight with American Kennedy Blades. Blades progressed through to the final in Paris, but not in the manner she would have hoped, having eliminated Axente from the competition with a crunching suplex move. Axente … Read more
A swimmer from Paraguay — who is also an Instagram sensation with almost 600,000 followers — has been kicked out of the Olympic Village in Paris. The country’s Olympic chief, Larissa Schaerer, has revealed that 20-year-old Luana Alonso was told to leave the village for creating an “inappropriate atmosphere”. Alonso’s Olympics ended when she failed … Read more
Ariarne Titmus has sensationally revealed she will step away from swimming with no set return date in the wake of an exhausting Olympics campaign in Paris. The Australian freestyle superstar claimed 400m and 4x200m relay gold medals while picking up silver in the 200m and 800m, and she may not race again for well over … Read more
Australia’s teenage breakdancer Jeff Dunne has backed Rachael Gunn after making a low-key debut on the Olympic stage a day after his under-siege teammate. Gunn took social media by storm when she and her sport debuted at the Olympics, with the 36-year-old university lecturer nicknamed ‘Raygun’ failing to score a point in her three round-robin … Read more
Australia’s new youngest Olympic gold medallist Arisa Trew has toasted her “insane” feat after an in-joke with her coach became a piece of magical advice. Aged 14 years and 86 days, the skateboarder eclipses the previous record held by Sandra Morgan since 1956 when she won 4x100m freestyle relay gold at the age of 14 … Read more
