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From Leongatha to Turin, Patterson hopes changes deliver more gold
Eleanor Patterson has moved to live in Italy, and changed her coach and her run-up. But she’s still winning medals. She just wants more of them to gleam gold.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Australian Athletics boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes
Noting her own experiences and those of athletes decades before her, Flemming says the issues of gender in female sport might be complex, but they are not new.
- by Konrad Marshall
The teenage competition and shift in mentality driving this Australian record-holder
Olli Hoare could barely walk this time last year and battled at the Paris Olympics. Now fit, he has an urgency to be the best – and to put his teenage competition in their place.
- by Michael Gleeson
What’s it like to race against – and lose to – Gout Gout? Not as miserable as you’d think
We tracked down the teenagers who were blown away by the world’s fastest man over 200m this year. Here’s what they said about the experience.
- by Penry Buckley
Can this record-breaker and silver medallist crack the 10-second barrier this weekend? He thinks so
Only one Australian has done it before. But after winning silver at the world indoor championships, Lachlan Kennedy is confident that he belongs among the world’s best.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘Like he’s running downhill’: Freeman praises ‘extraordinary’ teen star
Cathy Freeman loves what she sees of global sprint sensation Gout Gout, who has driven a surge in interest for Saturday night’s Maurie Plant Meet.
- by Michael Gleeson
Australia takes record medal haul at world championships
Four medals on the final day, including gold and silver in the high jump, have delivered Australia not only its biggest world indoor championships haul but almost doubled its previous highest medal tally.
- by Michael Gleeson
Teen becomes youngest ever to break four-minute mile
A 15-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand has become the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile – and he’s on his way to compete against Australia’s teenage prodigy.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Australians in sport
He’s 17 and the world’s fastest man over 200m this year, but we should no longer be shocked by Gout Gout
If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17, what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?
- by Michael Gleeson
Gout does it again: Teen blitzes field in 200m races
If he hadn’t already broken Peter Norman’s long-standing 200m record, Gout Gout would have broken it on Sunday. The youngster now has the two quickest times by an Australian man.
- by Michael Gleeson
The GOAT hanger: Legendary athlete Eliud Kipchoge to run in the Sydney Marathon
The only human who has ever run a sub-2 hour marathon has been signed as the marquee star for Sydney Marathon in August, in its inaugural race as a World Major race.
- by Iain Payten