Goorjian stunned as Italy lower boom on US
Australian men's basketball coach Brian Goorjian was left in awe and the US team was shattered at an Olympic warm-up tournament in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, on Tuesday. The Boomers competed with...
View ArticleIndonesians will miss Olympics - and they don't care
Olympic fever might be spreading across Australia, but in the world's fourth most populous nation no event will be broadcast - and few people seem to care. Indonesia has sent a 39-member team, and on...
View ArticleSydney Olympics hit by corruption claim
The Australian Olympic Committee has denied making a special payment to an Egyptian lobbyist who says he helped Sydney win its bid for the 2000 Games. The AOC president, John Coates, said the Canadian...
View ArticleJana unlikely to run into rival until Athens
Hurdler Jana Pittman will face two of her top American rivals in Zurich on Friday but it appears unlikely she will meet the fastest woman in the world this year before the Athens Olympic final. Second,...
View ArticleAustralians invade Europe with eyes on the prize
Eight days to go and the Australians are ready. The nation's Olympic athletes are scattered around Europe plotting their paths to Athens and putting the finishing touches to training. As the world's...
View ArticleResort is no holiday for Troop
Some days when Lee Troop goes for a run around the lake or through the forests of St Moritz he sees Wilson Kipketer. As a three-time world champion in the 800 metres, Kipketer trains in St Moritz as a...
View ArticleConfident Hackett takes aim at 1500m record
Grant Hackett is ready to break his 1500-metre world record at the Athens Olympics - even if his rivals doubt it will ever be broken. Larsen Jensen, who won the 1500m at the US Olympic trials last...
View ArticleDajka's final sprint to appeal hearing
A jet-lagged Jobie Dajka will appeal against his omission from the Olympic squad at a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing in Sydney today -...
View ArticlePittman shaves for gold
Gone are the long locks now, joining the teeth braces, belly-button ring, earrings, watch, bracelet - anything that might add a tiny bit of weight and slow down Jana Pittman a fraction of a...
View ArticleDajka hearing postponed for four days
Banished Olympic cyclist Jobie Dajka will have to wait four more days to learn whether he has any chance of riding for Australia in Athens. Dajka flew into Sydney from Frankfurt this morning for a...
View ArticlePittman's sights set on a face in the crowd
Jana Pittman plans to welcome Debbie Flintoff-King to Zurich by breaking her Australian record at the Letzigrund Stadium in tonight's Weltklasse meeting. Flintoff-King, who arrives in Zurich on Friday,...
View ArticleNowhere to hide as athletes face blood tests
For the first time in Olympic history, all athletes competing in the Games will be subject to blood testing, as well as the conventional urine testing for drugs. Athletes competing in Athens will be...
View ArticleStruggling to keep himself afloat
For the past month, Eric "the Eel" Moussambani has sat idle in his hometown of Malabo, waiting for a phone call that has yet to come. Summoned back to Equatorial Guinea from his Spanish training base,...
View ArticleCook, Pottharst prepare for the spotlight
Australia's Sydney Olympic gold medal beach volleyballers, Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst, will not only have to cope with different partners at Athens but the spotlight as well. Games will be held...
View ArticleDajka's axing appeal delayed
Jobie Dajka's appeal against his axing from the Olympic cycling team has been postponed until Monday, as the Australian Institute of Sport yesterday terminated Dajka's scholarship with the elite...
View ArticleLenton mindful of those mind games
Libby Lenton is expecting it. So, too, is her coach Stephan Widmar. Leisel Jones knows exactly what it's like, having been a victim herself at the last Olympics, but she's sure her teammate will be...
View Article'Damned' Thorpe treads softly
Just a week out from the opening of the Athens Olympics, Ian Thorpe yesterday decided to draw the line when he was once again asked for his opinion of drugs in his sport....
View ArticleSilence is golden for Thorpe
In 2000 he won three gold medals and a pair of silvers, and in doing so collected the greatest haul of medals by an Australian at an Olympics. But four years later, Ian Thorpe knows he made a crucial...
View ArticleMuch sacrificed, but gym parents beaming
When Colette and Peter Russo's "baby" Monette turned 16 this week, they could not even wish her happy birthday until 9.30pm. Monette, the baby of Australia's Olympic team, was away doing gymnastics...
View ArticleThe tough love that made a champ fighting fit
When Daniel Trenton moved into a housing commission tower in North Fitzroy as a kid, he was already a fighter and his parents knew it. Worried that he would fall in with the wrong crowd, they bought...
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