Tag: Olympics (Summer)
Aussies score three medals in Singapore
Australia has secured two gold medals and a silver in a fantastic display at the Youth Olympics in Singapore.[MORE]
Silver lining for youth basketballers
Australian team players were the stars of the show on day nine, winning two medals, silver and bronze, on the ninth day of competition at the Youth Olympics in Singapore.[MORE]
FINA considers outdoor night dives
World swimming's governing body FINA says it will consider staging diving competitions in the evening and outdoors after positive feedback at the inaugural Youth Olympics.[MORE]
Aussies stun US in youth basketball
A gripping come-from-behind victory by Australia's 3-on-3 women's basketballers over the United States has also put them into the gold medal match at the Youth Olympics in Singapore.[MORE]
Tomkins bows out on birthday
Australia's three-time Olympic champion James Tomkins, a member of the 'Oarsome Foursome', has announced his retirement from competitive rowing on his 45th birthday. Tomkins represented Australia at six Olympic Games from 1998-2008, winning three golds and a bronze.[MORE]
First Youth Olympic gold for Australia
Australia has claimed its first Youth Olympics gold medals with 18-year-old Nicholas Schafer winning the 100m breaststroke in Singapore.[MORE]
Young vaulter Parnov to carry flag
Western Australia-based pole vault rising star Liz Parnov will carry the Australian flag at the inaugural Youth Olympics opening ceremony on Saturday.[MORE]
India's Olympic hopes being monitored
Australian Olympic chief John Coates says India's hopes of one day hosting the Olympic Games will suffer unless it overcomes organisational problems affecting the New Delhi Commonwealth Games.[MORE]
Rebellin loses doping appeal
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin has lost his appeal against the stripping of his Olympic silver medal for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said.[MORE]
Africa 'faces long wait for Games'
Africa is unlikely to host the Olympics for at least 20 years despite the success of the soccer World Cup in South Africa which gave rise to hopes the continent might bid to host the Games soon, an IOC official said.[MORE]
London marks two years until Olympics
London has marked the two-year countdown to its Olympic Games with test runs around key venues.[MORE]
Jones' team-mates win medals reprieve
Team-mates of disgraced sprinter Marion Jones will be allowed to keep their 2000 Olympic relay medals after an International Olympic Committee decision to strip them was overturned.[MORE]
South Africa turns focus towards Olympics
Buoyed by its success in hosting the soccer World Cup, South Africa is now planning to bid for the Olympic Games.[MORE]
Olympic 100m champion fails dope test
Jamaica's Olympic and world 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser has tested positive for a banned painkiller, her track club (MVP) president Bruce James said. [MORE]
Charlesworth has Olympics in mind
Coach Ric Charlesworth left no doubt the 2012 London Olympics gold medal was the primary goal in choosing a very young Kookaburras squad for their Champions Trophy men's hockey title defence.[MORE]
Youth Olympics pure gold: Jones
Leisel Jones has hailed next month's inaugural Youth Olympics Games as a perfect primer for Australia's future Olympic champions to compete as soon as London 2012.[MORE]
Boyle to direct London's Olympic ceremony
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle has been named as artistic director of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.[MORE]
CAS overturns ban on Belarus athletes
International sport's top court has upheld appeals by Belarus 2008 Olympic medal-winning hammer throwers Vadim Deviatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan, overturning doping sanctions imposed on them.[MORE]
Fight for funds, Coates tells sports bodies
Australia's Olympic sports organisations have been warned they must fight for their slice of the extra sports funding cake baked by the Federal Government earlier this week.[MORE]
AOC says budget 'ticks all the boxes'
Australian Olympic Committee boss John Coates says the Federal Government's record funding boost to sport will ensure Australia's Olympic team will compete on an equal footing with its rivals into the future. [MORE]
$325m ploughed into 'stagnating' sport landscape
Programs for Australia's elite athletes will continue to receive the lion's share of new Federal Government sports funding over the next four years, today's budget shows.[MORE]
Entrants restricted for Olympic track cycling
The International Cycling Union has changed qualification rules for the Olympic track program by restricting nations to one entry per race.[MORE]
Downturn blamed for AOC revenue hit
Australian Olympic Committee revenues took a hit from the global financial crisis last year, prompting "drastic" administrative cut backs including a freeze on staff pay to ensure athlete funding would not be affected.[MORE]
'Pained' China accepts Sydney medal loss
China is 'pained' by the loss of a women's gymnastics team bronze medal from the Sydney Olympics, but respected the decision to withdraw it after team member Dong Fangxiao was adjudged to have lied about her age.[MORE]
China stripped of Sydney gymnastics bronze
China has been stripped of its women's gymnastics team bronze medal from the Sydney 2000 Olympics after one of the athletes falsified her age, the International Olympic Committee said overnight.[MORE]
