World 100-metre champion Yohan Blake opened his season with a 400m personal best on Saturday at the Camperdown Classic while 100m world-record holder Usain Bolt skipped the Jamaican meet.
Blake’s time of 46.49 seconds was .2 of a second behind...
Breaststroke queen Leisel Jones remains upbeat about her Olympic prospects despite performing well below her best at the NSW swimming championships.
Jones, who is targeting a place on her fourth Olympic team, finished seventh in the 100m...
Sally Pearson made her hurdling return but pole vaulter Alana Boyd and 400m specialist John Steffensen stole the show at the Perth Track Classic on Saturday night.
Boyd, 27, set a new outdoor Australian record of 4.66m on her third attempt,...
Switzerland’s Beat Feuz celebrated his birthday in style by winning the World Cup downhill on Saturday on the course to be used for the men’s alpine events at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Feuz, who thus reinforced his bid for the...
Ali Day is leading the Ironman Series after four of six rounds but the Mooloolaba competitor is hardly brimming with confidence.
The previously unheralded 21-year-old has been the most consistent performer during the summer and boasts a significant...
The Australian Masters Games will return to Geelong in 2013, with the biannual event expected to attract thousands of tourists and boost the city’s economy.
The event attracted 7000 people, including 2800 interstate visitors, to Geelong when...
Despite suffering in her first cold-weather triathlon, new star Melissa Rollison scorched to the Australian long-course title at Falls Creek.
Rollison and Sydney’s Tim Reed took out the 2km swim, 80km cycle and 20km run championship on...
Swimmer Kenrick Monk accepts he’ll probably always cop flak for being that guy who lied about falling off a skateboard.
But the 24-year-old freestyler insists he’s learned from the incident and has become a better man as a result.
Monk...
Teenage sensation Jessica Fox and former national team member Matthew Gabb have taken massive strides towards Olympic qualification with their performances at the Australian Slalom Open at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium on Saturday.
Fox claimed...
Fit and healthy again, Emily Seebohm has set her sights on London Olympic gold after putting a horror 2011 behind her.
Seebohm on Saturday continued her strong build-up to next month’s trials on Saturday with a dominant display to top the...
Reigning Olympic champion Ben Ainslie is set to compete at the 2012 Games after escaping a fresh punishment for his boarding of a media boat during the World Championships in Australia in December.
Triple Olympic gold medallist Ainslie, one of...
Tennis world No.2 Rafael Nadal has attacked a French satirical puppet show that implied he and other Spanish sports stars are drug cheats, saying it had crossed the line.
The sketches on Canal Plus France’s television show “Les...
