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Olympic festivities at The Fringe 2012
By Melissa Shortal The Olympics are finally here – yay! After so many years, months, weeks of build up the Games have started and I’m pretty excited about it! The topic of discussion last week at...
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Australian rowers produce stirring Olympic silver
AUSTRALIA’S first Olympic rowing mum Sarah Tait and crew-mate Kate Hornsey claimed a welcome silver medal on Wednesday but a second gold continued to prove elusive for the struggling Australian...
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Nathan Adrian pips disappointed James Magnussen to Olympic silver
MISFIRING missile James Magnussen tasted another humbling and hurtful defeat at the London Olympics, losing the blue-ribbon 100m freestyle by a fingernail as once-golden Australia endured a day of...
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Aussie Olympic rower Josh Booth faces London disciplinary action
A ROWER faces a police investigation and possible disciplinary action over an alcohol-fuelled incident as Australia’s under-performing Olympians come under pressure inside and outside the London Games...
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Cheering on our Aussie athletes – no matter the results
WELL it’s six days into the Olympics and my eyes looked like Jerilderie saddlebags when I looked in the mirror this morning. Up until the small hours urging our men and women on from 16,000 clicks...
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Danny Boyle’s Aussie girl for the London Opening Ceremony
By Louise Jefferson I applied to be an Olympics Opening Ceremony volunteer in November 2011 and after several auditions, I was selected – by Danny Boyle - to be in the ‘Inner Family’. 12 of us were...
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Loudy Wiggins hungry for Rio but first must convince the hubby
MELBOURNE diver Loudy Wiggins might be 33, a mother and just competed in her fourth Olympics. But that hasn’t stopped her talking about joining the Australian Olympic Team for a fifth Olympic...
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Time for Gold: Australia’s Women’s Basketball aiming high
SILVER! Silver! Silver! It doesn’t have the same ring as Gold! Gold! Gold! But for the Australian Opals, Australia’s women’s Olympic basketball team, it’s a proud record of Olympic achievement,...
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Australian rower Josh Booth to apologise, pay damage bill: AOC
AUSTRALIAN rower Josh Booth will offer a personal apology and pay £1400 to the owners of two shops he damaged in a bid to avoid criminal charges, the Australian Olympic Committee says. Windows at two...
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Australian Olympic gold medal drought continues in London
AUSTRALIA’S London Olympics team is looking like a shadow of its modern predecessors, trailing far behind the medal hauls of recent years and making ambitions of a top five finish look like a case of...
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Another Aussie Gold
By Sepi Roshan “Congratulations!” the letter read. “Your application for Games Maker has been approved. You will be part of the Spectator Entry Team.” You beauty! I think they loved me in my interview...
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Louisa & Tara do the Opening Ceremony
By Louisa Moran My English work colleagues hate me right now. They missed out on even a single ticket, yet this Aussie backpacker scored a stash of tickets within just months of arriving in the...
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Liz Cambage makes Olympic history with first women’s dunk
AUSTRALIAN women’s basketballer Liz Cambage has made Olympic history, when she became the first ever woman to dunk in Olympics basketball. In the Australian Opals group game against Russia, Cambage...
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What an amazing opening week of London 2012
SO many superlative performances. So many heroic failures. And throw in a topping of the distinctly bizarre just for good measure. Where to start after a fascinating first week of the London Olympics?...
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Silver! Silver! Silver! for Australia at London 2012
NO-ONE remembers who comes second. If that old sporting maxim is correct, the 2012 Olympians will soon become the forgotten men and women of Australian sport, consigned to the dusty register of...
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Is Australia’s London 2012 resurgence a Kiwi-inspired comeback?
SALLY PEARSON scorches over the hurdles, the Boomers net a last-second winner, Michael Diamond shoots another perfect score, the sailors set themselves up for gold, the Stingers snatch an extra-time...
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Tom Slingsby wins gold, Australia’s London 2012 hopes turn
SAILING superstar Tom Slingsby won Olympic gold on the breezy waters off Weymouth as the winds of hope began to blow through the Australian camp in London. The five-time world champion’s victory in...
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Sailors come to Australia’s Olympic rescue
WATERBORNE gold medals are the traditional mainstay of Australia’s Olympic effort, but this time it’s the sailors not swimmers who are pulling off a rescue act. Tom Slingsby won sailing’s Laser class...
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Aussie Olympic revival may take eight years: Green
AUSTRALIA could take eight years to revive its flagging Olympic fortunes, team boss Nick Green says. A day after sailor Tom Slingsby doubled Australia’s gold medal tally at the London Games, Green...
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Sally Pearson and Anna Meares double Australia’s Olympic golds
STEELY Sally Pearson and iron-willed Anna Meares turned mettle into precious gold on Australia’s most successful day of the London Olympics on Tuesday. Pearson dramatically won the 100m hurdles gold...
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