Cathy Freeman’s role in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games embedded her name forever in Olympic history. She lit the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium - after the torch had been handled by six Australian ...
When Australia’s swimmers topped the medal tally at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, teenage sensation Mollie O’Callaghan was the star of the show. Over eight days of intense ...
Saya Sakakibara started BMX racing at just four-years-old after watching her older brother Kai compete in events. Born on the Gold Coast, Saya and her family lived in Japan for the first few years of ...
Zimbabwean-born Dominique du Toit moved to Australia with her family at a young age and settled in Queensland. In 2015, she was ushered into the rugby sevens program after a series of stunning ...
Having won three straight national junior titles between 2012-14, Nathan Katz won the junior Oceania Championship in 2014. He finished ninth at the Junior World Championships in 2015 before winning ...
Born the child of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal parents, Patty Mills has utilised his on-court talents to grow his philanthropic work away from the hardwood, rising as a symbol of hope for ...
Sydney academic Rachael Gunn is leading something of a double life. By day she is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature and Language at Macquarie University.
Emma McKeon is, quite simply, the most successful Australian Olympian of all time. Before the Wollongong native's 28th birthday she'd won more Olympic medals than any Australian Olympian in history, a ...
Basketballer Michael Ah Matt and boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts became the first Indigenous Australians to call themselves Olympians when they competed at the Tokyo 1964 Games. In 1992 at ...
The AOC has condemned an anonymous online petition attacking Australian Olympic Team member, breaking competitor Rachael Gunn as vexatious, misleading and bullying. The Australian Olympic Committee ...
The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from around the country who demonstrate the Olympic spirit – friendship, sportsmanship and striving for excellence - both on ...