The first-of-its-kind Olympic Qualifier Series kicks off with the Shanghai leg at the Huangpu Riverside urban park on Thursday. The OQS Shanghai 2024 event will be live streamed in Australia The OQS, to be held over two legs, will see over 150 Paris 2024 Olympic quotas being decided across four sports – BMX freestyle, breaking,...
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ASC welcomes Federal Budget’s continued investment to sport
“This follows last week’s announcement of $249.7 million to upgrade the AIS Campus to ensure our athletes have access to the world’s best testing and training facilities, and accommodation ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.” More than 24,000 young Australians will be supported with the Local Sporting Champions (LSC) and Local Para...
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The West’s sports editor grilled over Reid coverage
Former Fremantle star Shaun McManus has gone head-to-head with The West Australian’s sports editor over a string of Harley Reid back pages, but Jakeb Waddell says the newspaper is not backing down. Waddell penned an opinion piece which went viral on Monday night, opening up on death threats he has received over the coverage. Expanding...
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Kambosos loses to Lomachenko after world title ‘brutality’; ‘great Aussie robbery’ and ‘joke’ twist in earlier fights
Vasiliy Lomachenko has outclassed George Kambosos Jr. on his way to the IBF world lightweight title after a clinical 11th-round finish in the main event at RAC Arena. Kambosos was busy working to the body early in the first round while Lomachenko tried to get a read on the Australian, mixing in subtle dips and...
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Funding boosted for Australian Institute of Sport ahead of Brisbane Olympics
Canberra: The Australian government has announced a funding boost for the nation’s high-performance sports institute ahead of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that a 249.7 million Australian dollar (165 million U.S. dollar) upgrade for the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra will give Australian athletes the best chance...
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Time for an Australian sporting superstar to be roasted
Yes, the most obvious candidate would be Shane Warne if he was still with us. For a posthumous roast you’d have to invoke Loophole 5 in the “Never speak ill of the dead” edict: unless it’s funny, and his heirs are onboard with the production, but that would too likely end in maudlin disaster, so,...
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Australian Prime Minister Press Conference – Canberra 10 May
Good morning, everybody. My name is Kieran Perkins. I’m the CEO of the Australian Sports Commission, and I have to say, this is an absolutely extraordinary day for us. This announcement this morning is the largest investment into the Australian Institute of Sports since inception, and certainly as we think about the pathway onto our...
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Funding boosted for Australian Institute of Sport ahead of 2032 Brisbane Olympics – Social News XYZ
Home » Other Sports » Funding boosted for Australian Institute of Sport ahead of 2032 Brisbane Olympics Posted By: Gopi May 9, 2024 Canberra, May 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Australian government has announced a funding boost for the nation’s high-performance sports institute ahead of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that...
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New ‘high-performance centre’ set to be built at Australian Institute of Sport ahead of Olympics
In short: The federal government has committed $249.7 million in next week’s budget to upgrade the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. The long-awaited upgrade will include building a new high-performance training and testing centre, a multi-sport indoor dome, and an accommodation facility. What’s next? The government said the funding will be in the budget, but a detailed...
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Steve Smith’s T20 World Cup omission, explained: Who did Australia choose instead? | Sporting News United Kingdom
There is no doubt that Steve Smith is an Australian cricket legend. So why has he been left out of Australia’s T20 Cricket World Cup squad when he is such an integral part of the nation’s teams in other formats of cricket? The Sporting News investigates why. MORE: Why is the T20 Cricket World Cup 2024 being...
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‘Apologise to Novak Djokovic’: England legend Kevin Pietersen to Australian Govt after AstraZeneca row
Amidst the global uproar over Novak Djokovic’s vaccine controversy and AstraZeneca’s recent withdrawal, England cricket luminary Kevin Pietersen calls for accountability, demanding an apology for the embattled tennis star. First Published May 8, 2024, 8:11 PM IST In 2022, the world watched as Novak Djokovic, an ardent skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, was barred from entering...
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The Test Season 3: new trailer | ScreenHub Australia – Film & Television Jobs, News, Reviews & Screen Industry Data
Prime Video, Cricket Australia, and Whooshka Media have released the official trailer for The Test Season Three. This is the third installment of Prime Video’s biggest Australian sports documentary series, and it’ll be released globally on Friday 24 May. The three-part series will show all the raw and emotional moments from the highly publicised 2023 English Ashes...