World athletics championships
Hungary for medals: Is this the best athletics team to leave Australian shores?
On form, the Australian team for the Budapest championships starting on August 19 has at least seven serious medal prospects.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Experts amazed two WADA labs got it so wrong on Bol
Scientists say Peter Bol was lucky the same World Anti-Doping Agency laboratories that got it wrong with his first doping sample did not test his second one.
- by Michael Gleeson
Best friends, training partners, rivals: How a housemate could upstage Peter Bol
While Peter Bol was fighting to clear his name, his longtime housemate quietly broke the Olympic hero’s national record. Again.
- by Michael Gleeson
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Doping
Athletics Australia demands answers over the treatment of Peter Bol
Australian runner Peter Bol has been officially cleared of doping by Sport Integrity Australia. His previous ban was lifted because of an inconclusive result.Â
- by Michael Gleeson
Opinion
WADA
Why wrongly accused Peter Bol deserves an apology
Bol has been cleared, but his accusers have not. There are now a litany of questions federal sports minister Anika Wells must answer.
- by Michael Gleeson
Opinion
Drugs in sport
Peter Bol has finally been cleared of doping, but he deserves answers about his treatment
The Australian middle-distance runner was the victim of a botched investigation by anti-doping authorities.
- by Andrew Webster
Deng breaks Bol’s Australian 800m record in France
Joseph Deng clocked one minute 43.99 seconds at a meet in France overnight, shaving 0.01s from Peter Bol’s benchmark.
- by Steve Larkin
Meet the rising para-athletics star with a triple Olympian in her corner
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor had never coached a para-athlete before. That was until she met Mali Lovell, who has just made her first Australian team.
- by Tom Decent
Raising the bar: Eleanor Patterson fights back to defend world title
Australian high jumper Eleanor Patterson overcame injury when she won gold at the world championships in 2022. This year, history is repeating itself.
- by Billie Eder
Teens star as 200m sprint, Sally Pearson’s hurdles records fall
Australia unearthed two track stars of the future at the national junior athletic championships, with Delta Amidzovski breaking Sally Pearson’s under-18 record in the 100m hurdles, and Queenslander Gout Gout setting a new national record in the under-18 men’s 200m sprint.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘I want to be a threat on the global scene’: Browning clocks record run
Rohan Browning reckons it’s only a matter of time before he joins countryman Patrick Johnson in the exclusive sub-10 second club after clocking the fastest 100m time by an Australian on home soil, and the third quickest ever by an Australian.
- by John Salvado