11:10 AM AEST | Canberran can show NBA potential in showdown with Kobe and LeBron.
| Anna sprints to silver against ... | Super Sally's silver
10:05 AM AEST | Olympic Games glory barely six months ago after horror crash.
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Comments (1) | Super Sally's silver | Fallen hero admits he felt ...
10:04 AM AEST | AUSTRALIA has a new superstar of the track after 21-year-old Sally McLellan won a silver medal in the 100-metres hurdles.
20/08/2008 | Greek runner Fani Halkia has been formally expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.
The 29-year-old, who won go...
20/08/2008 | The closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games may not be as eagerly awaited as the lavish opening ceremony, but details revealed yesterday suggest it should be another spectacular night.
Span...
20/08/2008 | Swimmers attending the target 2012 camp at the AIS last week were inspired by the 20 medals won by Australia at the Water Cube in Beijing.
A group of 51 talented young swimmers watched the Olympians ...
19/08/2008 | Chinese athletics hero says sorry for pulling out of race.
| Poster boy plunges China into ... | Games bring 'abuses increase'
19/08/2008 | Golden Games suffers blackest moment.
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Comments (2) | Games bring 'abuses increase'
19/08/2008 | For several seconds, it looked like Emma Snowsill might not finish.
| Phelps's gold rush starts to ... | Rice to become hot commercial ...
19/08/2008 | China has cracked down on dissent for the Olympic Games and failed to honour pledges to allow broader freedoms during the event, human rights groups and dissidents say.
China promised to improve h...
19/08/2008 | Michael Phelps has had the ''big fat cheeseburger'' he craved, free now to eat whatever he likes. His Blackberry is clogged with about 5000 congratulatory messages after his eighth gold medal swim and...
19/08/2008 | Stephanie Rice, Australia's queen of the pool at the Beijing Olympic Games, will get another pot of gold on her return to Australia.
Rice is poised for a massive financial windfall from endorsements ...
18/08/2008 | Our teams claim two gold medals less than an hour apart.
| Triathalon gold and bronze for ... | Hero humbled amid strokes of ...
18/08/2008 | Emma Snowsill buries the ghost of past defeats.
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Comments (1) | Aussie sailing pairs win gold | Hero humbled amid strokes of ...
18/08/2008 | Heroic failure by Grant Hackett ends Olympic swimming program.
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Comments (7) | Athens bolter done for doping | Forget Tiger, Federer, Jordan ...
18/08/2008 | The local heroine of the Athens Olympics, 400m hurdles champion Fani Halkia, will be unable to defend her title in Beijing after testing positive to the banned substance, methyltrienolone.
Halkia ...
18/08/2008 | I look down the list of events and it only takes seconds for my top, journalistic instincts to home in on a big story.
I pack my official Olympic merchandise rucksack, sweatband, check; hideous ye...
18/08/2008 | Australia has no right to point the finger at coaches who pass on their secrets to international athletes, Australian Olympic head John Coates says.
The coach of 200m butterfly bronze medallist J...
18/08/2008 | Tears and cheers at Beijing's Water Cube were swapped for beers last night and wouldn't the Budweisers have tasted sweet for American swimmer Michael Phelps.
He has defied all belief. He was set a be...
18/08/2008 | US swim legend Mark Spitz wasn't on hand in Beijing when Michael Phelps broke his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics yesterday.
No one bothered to invite him.
Spitz said the Inte...