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Fydler pictured at the MCG ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, for which he was Australia’s deputy chef de mission.

Swimming Australia president to fight eight-month suspension for ‘improper conduct’

An integrity investigation found Chris Fydler abused his position in a dispute over a former Olympic teammate’s bid to be vice president of World Aquatics.

  • Jon Pierik

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Australian athletes at the 1980 Moscow Olympics gather for a group photo at the front of Parliament House ahead of a formal acknowledgment by Parliament, in Canberra on Wednesday 30 July 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen (Olympic swimmer Michelle Ford is photographed standing in front row, centre)

Shunned for competing, Moscow 1980 Olympians welcomed home at last

Led by gold medallist Michelle Ford, the 121 Australians who defied government pressure to boycott the Moscow Olympics have been honoured at a ceremony at Parliament House.

  • Emma Kemp
Michael van Gerwen

The Olympics must be compelling, electrifying and showcase unparalleled skill. One sport is all of these

If shooting is an Olympic sport, and if breaking was, darts should at least be considered. Yet there’s more chance of Raygun becoming a two-time Olympian.

  • Darren Kane
Saffron Tambyrajah at the Oceania qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games.

Her sights were set on Paris. Then a refugee border dispute wrecked her dream

A young Australian athlete was denied her chance of competing at her first Olympic Games because of a border dispute that ended up in world sport’s highest court.

  • Adam Pengilly
The Olympics is a once-every-four-years reminder that most of us are painfully ordinary and will remain that way forever.

‘Triple pike? I could do that’: The lies we tell ourselves during the Olympics

It may not be nice or fair, but comparing ourselves to athletes (and critiquing their technique) is basically an Australian national sport.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Slowly the boats made their way down the Seine.

A noble failure: The Paris opening ceremony was a creative tour de force, but let athletes down

The IOC should insist that athletes enter a stadium, their rightful environment, to be introduced to the world rather than being treated like tourists coming to town.

  • Ric Birch
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The Australian Olympic team’s deputy chef de mission Kaarle McCulloch places a wreath on the grave of Cecil Healy in Assevillers, northern France, and Healy, who was an Australian Olympian before the First World War.

He died 106 years ago, but in one French village they’ll never forget this Australian Olympian

Cecil Healy died the day after the battle of the Somme was won. More than a century later, his legacy for bravery and sportsmanship live on in Australia and France.

  • Rob Harris
Thomas Back (right) with Brisbane 2032 chief executive Andrew Liveris.

Without extra lead time, IOC would be ‘pretty nervous’ about Brisbane 2032

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation would have been “pretty nervous” about Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Games had the city been given hosting rights under the previous selection process.

  • Cameron Atfield
Michelle Ford celebrates victory at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.

Why the most macabre doping scheme in Olympic history went unpunished

Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.

  • Darren Kane
Enhanced Games president Aron D’Souza.

The Enhanced Games will be many things, but they won’t be sport

The spruikers of the “Doping Olympics” have so far failed to make the case for their venture, while the many arguments against it are so obvious as to be absurd.

  • Darren Kane