29/08/2008 | Two-time Olympic softball bronze medallist Sally McCreedy says the enthralling semi-final between Australia and Japan in Beijing was evidence the sport deserves Olympic status.
The match lasted a ma...
29/08/2008 | After all the Olympic hoopla, Usain Bolt says he just wants to get back to his day job.
Running fast.
''Track and field is my job. This is what I do, I work,'' Bolt said in Zurich, where he wi...
29/08/2008 | Former Winter Olympian Mitch Allen is aiming for redemption when he joins a host of the world's best snowboarders at Perisher for the annual Boost Mobile Sno Sho competition this weekend.
Allen bombe...
29/08/2008 | Controversial figure John Hopoate says winning the Australian heavyweight boxing title off Bob Mirovic next month would mean everything to him after claiming he was run out of rugby league.
Former...
29/08/2008 | Brotherly love and sisterly devotion can be a scarce commodity at times in the Atherton family.
Gee Atherton, 23, and his sister Rachel, 20, are two of the world's leading mountain bike riders.
A...
29/08/2008 | A big crowd is expected to head to Wyangala Reservoir this weekend for the annual Grabine Fishing Tournament being staged over three days, starting today.
There is a stack of prizes on hand for Murra...
28/08/2008 | The agony of his Beijing heartbreak still lingers firmly in the mind of Australian Olympic bike rider Jared Graves.
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27/08/2008 | Michael Baker continued his dominance on the Mt Stromlo mountain bike track, leading his Canberra Grammar team to the senior division ACT school championship yesterday.
The victory, with two fellow G...
27/08/2008 | Queanbeyan Bowling Club's success continued after winning their second Champion of Club Champions title, taking out the Men's Fours at Tuggeranong last weekend. Queanbeyan, represented by Phil Jeffe...
26/08/2008 | A week ago Vincentia High School student Sami Cavill, 13, thought she would spend her school week copying notes and reading books in her south coast classroom.
Instead she was preparing yesterday fo...
22/08/2008 | ACT runner Martin Dent is hoping this weekend in Geelong to rectify his performance at last year's Australian Cross Country championships.
Dent had an 80m lead with less than half a kilometre to...
22/08/2008 | Australia's hottest young boxing prospect ''Cool'' Willie Kickett has invited comparisons to Jamaica's carefree sprint sensation Usain Bolt in the lead-up to his first big international fight today.
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22/08/2008 | One of Canberras newest world champions admits he would give anything to compete at an Olympic Games, but James Williamson is not expecting a call from the International Olympic Committee any time soo...
21/08/2008 | Canberra mountain bike fans not in Beijing Olympic competition won't have to wait long to see the world's best riders in action.
20/08/2008 | Every time Gaz Rees travels across Australia to find his next kickboxing opponent he asks himself the same question.
Why did he drive hours just to fight someone he did not even know?
But he found t...
20/08/2008 | Queanbeyan's team of John De Smet, current ACT rep Wade Turner and skip Peter Daly are the winners of the Men's Champion of Club Champion triples tournament, after defeating West Deakin Hellenic for t...
15/08/2008 | Local fish have gone quiet, with hardly a scale registered this week except for some redfin in Googong and a 110cm Murray cod from Burrinjuck's upper reaches.
Anglers who bait-fished in Lake Tuggera...
13/08/2008 | Teams from Queanbeyan and West Deakin will contest the final of the Men's Champion of Club Champions competition, after preliminary rounds were held at Tuggeranong last weekend.
Most games played wer...
11/08/2008 | 29-year-old Canberra runner Martin Dent knows every hill, every turn and every bend of Sydney's 14km City2Surf.
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11/08/2008 | Matt Elliott was stumped. The frank coach had zilch to say after the Panthers, in his own words, had their ''pants pulled down, bums spanked and whatever happens after that'' by his former club.
Afte...