'Home ground advantage' isn't just sporting superstition. Is it time the AFL even the playing field?
Melbourne has tightly held the rights to hosting the AFL Grand Final for almost every year since the code began. NSW Premier Chris Minns says "let's take it off them".
'Real bummer': Para surfers push to overturn decision not to include sport at LA Games
Past and present world champions including Kelly Slater are pushing for event organisers to reconsider the decision not to include adaptive – or para – surfing at the next Paralympic Games.
Photo shows Mark Stewart surfingAnthony Albanese says all returning athletes 'heroes'
Anthony Albanese welcomes home athletes returning from Olympics
Photo shows Prime Minister smiling, wears green and gold scarf on tarmacHas Video Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds.Back-to-back powerboat winners smash own time by 18 minutes in Avon Descent victory
Paddling duo Brendan Rice and Josh Kippin have taken out the top honours of the 2024 Avon Descent in under eight hours, with the powercraft title claimed in under two hours.
Photo shows Two men in wetsuits and caps wear medals around their necks while holding beersWhat is the AIN at the Paris Olympics?
Athletes are banned from representing Russia and Belarus at this year's Paris Olympic Games, but they can compete as individuals under the banner of the Athlètes Individuels Neutres, or AIN.
Photo shows The Belarus team walk together behind its flagJess Fox claims gold in Paris Olympics
Jess Fox describes winning gold in Paris after her stellar performance in the women's canoe slalom K1 final.
Photo shows Olympic Medal Results, Paris Olympics: Olympian with wet hair holds gold medal at podium.Has Video Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds.This woman was treated as an irritation for most of her life. It's thanks to her the Paris Olympics have an equal gender split today
At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, men and women are represented equally for the first time, thanks in part to a French pioneer who helped force the IOC and World Athletics to recognise female athletes.
Photo shows Alice Milliat sits and looks to one sideAustralian athletes in Paris given high security following tourist incident
Australian athletes in Paris for the Olympics have been told the security will be high following the alleged gang rape of an Australian tourist in the French capital.
Photo shows Australia's chef de mission at the Paris Olympics Anna Mears speaking at a media conference.Has Video Duration: 20 seconds.Olympic torch arrives in Paris ahead of 2024 Summer Games
Joining France's Bastille Day military parade, hundreds of people have carried the Olympic torch through Paris ahead of the Olympic Games.
Photo shows A man and woman dressed in white hold two large torches in ParisBig stadiums beckon for shorter WBBL in November
More Women's Big Bash League games will be played in stadiums and third-umpire technology will be greatly increased as part of the 2024 schedule.
Photo shows Two Adelaide WBBL cricketers walk on to the SCG, with an old pavilion behind them and blue sky overhead.Five quick hits — Spain and France fight through to Euro 24 semis as hosts bow out
Cristiano Ronaldo's glaring late miss sees Portugal lose to France, hosts Germany crash out as a Spanish star emulates his father, and two hand gestures lead to two very different outcomes at the European Championships.
Photo shows Cristiano Ronaldo kneels on the groundWimbledon five quick hits — Alcaraz digs deep, New Zealander achieves 65-year first
It took five sets and a whole lot of belief for defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to beat Frances Tiafoe on Centre Court, while Emma Raducanu shows her form to set up a battle with the first New Zealand woman to reach the fourth-round in 65 years.
Photo shows Carlos Alcaraz hugs Frances Tiafoe'We ride on dynamite': A century on from the Tour de France's first doping scandal
In a small cafe in a nondescript French village during the 1924 Tour de France, a journalist fell upon the biggest scoop in cycling, when three Tour riders revealed what they were carrying in their bags to get them through the most daunting of races.
Photo shows Henri Pelissier stands in a crowdAustralia demolishes England in T20 World Cup clash after stunning opening partnership
A brilliant powerplay sets the tone as Australia completes a comfortable victory over arch-rivals England at the T20 World Cup.
Photo shows Travis Head plays a shotWatch the shocking moment when a walker loses a race celebrating too early
The shocking moment when Spanish race walker Laura García-Caro loses a possible European Championship bronze medal after celebrating too early.
Photo shows Lyudmila Oluanovska passes a celebrating Laura Garcia-CaroIt's a sport where physical clashes are all the go and it takes a toll on bodies
These athletes put their bodies on the line, literally breaking bones to get past their opponents. Now they're preparing for the Great Southern Slam, the world's biggest tournament being held in Adelaide this weekend.
Photo shows Ashley Wilkinson rests on a knee during a break in training for the national roller derby titlesTeenager going for gold as break dancing debuts at Olympics
One of the youngest Olympians set to represent Australia in Paris this year is also competing in a new category. Breakdancing or "breaking" will make its debut at the games with competitors judged on their musicality, originality, and style.
Has Video Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds.Australian man among winners of annual cheese-rolling race in England
Tom from Munich and Dylan from Perth won the men's races at the annual competition chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester down a steep hill.
Photo shows Wheely Dangerous, Cheese Chase: A group of men seen rolling down a hill as a large group watchesHas Video Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds.Jess Hull lays down Olympic marker with Oceania record
Jess Hull finishes second at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon after running a new Oceania record in the 1,500m, while athletic's biggest rivalry writes its latest chapter as Josh Kerr gets the upper hand over Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
Photo shows Jess Hull smilesAustralian cliff diver will set fear aside for 21m plunge to defend world title
Rhiannan Iffland will dive in Athens this weekend as the Red Bull world series begins. She says she'll challenge herself with new dives as she fights for her eighth title.
Photo shows Rhiannan Iffland hovers in the air during a high dive with Doha skyscrapers visible behind her30 years on from the worst crash in Australian motorsport history
Dreamt up from a Hollywood fantasy, the Cannonball Run was set to put the Northern Territory on the global stage. But the event seemed destined for tragedy before it began.