Olympic Games
AOC appoints Mark Arbib as CEO for run-in to 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games
New Australian Olympic Committee boss replaces Matt Carroll after moving into sport and media since quitting politics in 2012
Jack Snape
01, Apr, 2025 @11:52 PM
Brisbane Olympics infrastructure body urges LNP to fast-track controversial venues with special laws
Save Victoria Park says it has briefed barristers and could launch a legal challenge to protect the site
Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent
26, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM
Brisbane Olympics 2032: why these Games could turn out nothing like we had planned
The IOC – which gave us 11 years to plan – must be nervous about the state of affairs
Ben Smee
24, Mar, 2025 @2:01 PM
George Foreman obituary
Boxing champion who won two world heavyweight titles, decades apart, and took on Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle
John Rawling
23, Mar, 2025 @3:15 PM
Kirsty Coventry’s in-tray: six big issues facing IOC’s new president
From protecting women’s sport to the return of Russia and keeping the Olympics relevant, the former gold medallist has tough challenges ahead
Sean Ingle
22, Mar, 2025 @8:00 PM
View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC
Incoming IOC president owes her position to political support but is promising a collective and sustainable leadership approach
Firdose Moonda in Cape Town
22, Mar, 2025 @8:00 AM
Sent to Coventry: how Bach’s power helped Zimbabwean’s shock IOC win
Poll result defied candidates’ calculations and illustrated outgoing president’s influence but change may yet come
Sean Ingle
21, Mar, 2025 @6:47 PM
So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport? | Marina Hyde
The Zimbabwean has global sport’s top job but Britain’s Sebastian Coe was snubbed, and with good reason: he might have changed things, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde
21, Mar, 2025 @2:36 PM
So who is Kirsty Coventry, who now has global sport’s most powerful job? | Sean Ingle
IOC’s first female president faces significant challenges including handling Donald Trump’s power and protecting women’s sports
Sean Ingle in Costa Navarino
20, Mar, 2025 @9:11 PM
Kirsty Coventry named new IOC president as Coe denied in election vote – as it happened
A vote expected to be tense, tight and protracted turned out to be one-sided and extraordinarily brief, ending with Kirsty Coventry’s election as IOC president
Simon Burnton
20, Mar, 2025 @4:46 PM
Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe routed in vote
Sebastian Coe and Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr suffered a crushing defeat in the first round of voting as Thomas Bach’s preferred successor secured a majority
Sean Ingle in Costa Navarino
20, Mar, 2025 @4:09 PM
World Boxing to decide new gender eligibility rules in ‘two or three weeks’
World Boxing has reached ‘an advanced stage’ of its investigation into the gender eligibility row at last year’s Olympics and expects to announce its findings in a matter of ‘weeks rather than months’
Donald McRae
20, Mar, 2025 @8:00 AM
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