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The winters may be getting shorter and the snow line inexorably creeping up Australia’s modest mountains but the advance of the country’s winter athletes continues at pace.
Juan Martin del Potro believes there could be a battle of the big boppers at the Australian Open next week if conditions similar to the Sydney International prevail at Melbourne Park.
Australian Twenty20 captain George Bailey is convinced Adelaide Strikers star import Alex Hales can be contained by Big Bash League opponents.
Australia is pulling out all stops to secure a best-ever Winter Olympics medal haul with a series of high-end training camps across the globe.
The Olyroos’ dwindling prospects of making the London Games look to have been dealt a final blow after FIFA reversed a critical result in the Australians’ qualifying group.
She’s in her 15th year on tour, has six career singles titles and had most of the country in her corner during her fairytale quarter-final run at the 2009 Australian Open.
Australia’s hopes of returning to the Davis Cup World Group hang on a precipice with Switzerland just one game from snatching the tie after fading light brought a halt to a fifth set decider between Lleyton Hewitt and Stanislas Wawrinka.
St Kilda’s pre-season from hell has moved offshore with four players suspended, fined and counselled following the misuse of prescribed medication and use of alcohol during a recent training camp in New Zealand.
Tennis legend Ken Rosewall says Bernard Tomic is accomplished enough to play at the Australian Open without a wildcard and has urged the prodigy to move on from the disputes that have diverted attention from his burgeoning game.
The Joel Monaghan scandal is going global with newspaper columnists, bloggers and the general public laying into the Canberra rugby league star – and Australians – over the dog sex simulation scandal.
With weather dramas, officiating issues and a death on the sliding track the 2010 Winter Olympics may not go down as the best ever, but Australia will remember the Games as their best ever.
There were blown knees and blown opportunities for Lydia Lassila but Australia’s fifth Winter Olympic gold medallist always seemed to know how to rebuild. She did it after Turin four years ago.
The most Australian interest on the tenth day of the Winter Olympics looks like centring on two Russian figure skaters.
How does someone who doesn’t drink and has strong religious beliefs celebrate winning a gold medal? Very quietly, as you would expect.
Head of Australia’s Winter Olympic Institute Geoff Lipshut admits aerial skier Jacqui Cooper hasn’t had as good a lead-in as she did before the Turin Games four years ago.
Torah Bright overcame four Americans, three concussions, a dislocated jaw and a failed first run to become Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold medallist in snowboarding on Thursday.
Dale Begg-Smith believes the future of Australian moguls skiing is in good hands, and he’s given every indication he’d like to continue to be a part of it.
In the end the Ice Man got frozen out by one of his own. Moguls skier Dale Begg-Smith couldn’t quite match his exploits of four years ago on the Cypress Mountain Winter Olympics course Sunday, edged out by Canadian Alexandre Bilodeau for the gold.
Australian luger Hannah Campbell-Pegg spoke of feeling like a “lemming” and a “crash test dummy” on the Whistler luge track the night before the crash that killed Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili.
