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Anxiety, injury and PTSD nearly destroyed Brooke. Invictus saved her
After hitting rock bottom, a Brisbane veteran, mother and now athlete admits she “didn’t want to live any more”. This is how the Invictus Games saved her life.
- by Nick Wright
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‘We can do anything in Paris’: Why grand Budapest haul has Aussie aths team cock-a-hoop
Australia’s athletics team leaves Hungary with its best-ever haul of medals from the world championships and brimming with confidence less than a year out from the Paris Olympics.
- by Michael Gleeson
Two medals in one event: Aussie high jumpers claim both silver and bronze
Neither Eleanor Patterson nor Nicola Olyslagers claimed gold in the high jump, but they did achieve a rare feat, and they were overjoyed for the winner, displaced Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
- by Michael Gleeson
Bronze is rich reward for Marschall when Mondo has gold in the vault
Australian Kurtis Marschall knew he couldn’t beat pole vault great Armand Duplantis, but was elated to win a medal and end up on the podium with the man called “Mondo”.
- by Michael Gleeson
High jumper Nicola Olyslagers scribbles in her ‘little book of gold’. Now other athletes are copying her
Nicola Olyslagers opens up on her “little book of gold” notebook and shares what’s inside, as both of Australia’s champion high jumpers qualified for Monday morning’s final at the world titles.
- by Michael Gleeson
She’s no Dr do-Little: Why Aussie javelin thrower might need a day off work to collect her Budapest bronze
Compete against the world’s best javelin throwers in Budapest on Friday night, collect your medal at the weekend, back at work in a Sydney hospital on Monday. Welcome to Mackenzie Little’s busy life as a FIFO athlete.
- by Michael Gleeson
The iconic moment of sporting mateship that strained a friendship
It was one of the most iconic images of sporting mateship, Cedric Dubler urging Australian teammate Ash Moloney on for Olympic bronze at the Tokyo Games. And it put a fissure in their relationship.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘I can’t see’: Sprinter competes after cart crash on way to race
Jamaica’s Andrew Hudson said his 200m semi-final was “literally” a blur after having glass shards removed from his right eye minutes before the event.
- by Eddie Pells
Rowan’s fight made him a champion. The Comm Games fallout presents a new barrier
A Brisbane swimmer’s fight for a chance made him a five-time champion. But the withdrawal of a marquee event is set to rob athletes of the chance to follow his lead.
- by Nick Wright
Fair share? Gold medal choice shouldn’t be the athletes’ decision
What athlete would ever choose the jump-off and risk the certainty of a gold medal, albeit a shared one, rather than ending it all and taking the gold?
- by Michael Gleeson
‘All-time clutch performer’: Why new world champion Nina Kennedy can vault to Olympic gold
Having entrenched herself as Australia’s greatest women’s pole vaulter, Nina Kennedy can now realistically aim to break five metres and win gold in Paris at next year’s Olympic Games, her coach Paul Burgess said.
- by Michael Gleeson