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World champion Springboks hammer Wallabies in Brisbane

In short:The Springboks have made a winning start to their Rugby Championship campaign defeating the Wallabies in Brisbane.The 33-7 defeat was Australia's first

Paris Olympics: Australian breakdancer Raygun hits back with tough message to her trolls and blasts IOC for scrapping the sport in 2028

The Australian who has gone viral for her shocking Olympic routine has lashed the IOC for axing the new sport of breaking without giving it a chance to succeed.

Jess Hull: Australia’s rising star with eye on 1500m upset and historic first in Paris

Jessica Hull has always liked to run. In year two, she ran her first cross country race, at primary school in Albion Park, near Wollongong. Playing football wit

‘I lost control’: Greek star breaks ties with dad after epic spray; Demon’s top-10 spot at risk

The hip injury that cruelled Alex de Minaur’s Wimbledon campaign at an inopportune time and derailed his Olympics ambitions has now imperilled his hold on a t

‘Forged in fire’: The heartbreaks behind Aussie diver’s historic Olympic moment

Maddison Keeney’s palms were sweaty, knees weak and arms were heavy as she awaited a final dive in the Olympics. Eminem portrayed the Australian’s pickle in

Olympics schedule day 15: Stingers to face Spain in women’s water polo gold medal match, Hull runs in the 1,500m

Olympics essentialsThe 2024 Summer Olympics are underway in Paris, France.Australians will compete in events including the women's water polo gold medal match,

Australia prides itself on being a nation of ‘sport lovers’, but stats reveal a complicated truth

You have to be careful with those apparent messages from the universe: no matter how well-timed and profound they seem, they're not always reliable.Just as I wa

In an Olympic sport that may be one and done, Australia’s first breaker bows out in ‘different’ performance

Olympics essentialsWith the breaking spun, won and done in an Olympics cameo in Paris, Australia's B-Girl, Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, bowed out without firing a

‘Kicking themselves’: Aussie hits out at critics after breakdancing’s wild Olympics debut

The urban sport of breaking spun its way onto the Olympic stage on Friday for the first and possibly last time, with Japan’s B-Girl Ami winning the inaugural

‘It’s a way of buying influence’: The billionaires acquiring Australia’s most iconic brands

As they stepped aboard the luxury yacht, about to set sail on the Seine, it wasn't our Olympians' hard-won medals glinting in the setting sun — it was their g

Australia’s Richardson claims silver in a battle that shows the raw power of Olympics sprint cycling

Olympics essentialsMatthew Richardson is Australia's most dominant sprint cyclist since Anna Meares.But up against modern legend Harrie Lavreysen, he just didn'

What time is the women’s water polo final in Australia? Stingers go for Olympic gold vs. Spain at Paris 2024 | Sporting News Australia

Australia's women's water polo team – the Stingers – have reached an Olympic final for the first time since Sydney 2000.It's been a campaig