Annemiek van Vleuten in horror road race cycling crash at Rio Olympics 2016
A horrendous crash has marred the finale of the women's cycling road race.
A horrendous crash has marred the finale of the women's cycling road race.
Having only just qualified for the semi-finals, Australian Catherine Skinner has overcome an early deficit match to triumph in the women's trap final.
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Day two of the Rio Olympic Games has started as day one finished - with long queues, spectator complaints - and staff late for work.
Sachin Tendulkar might just be the man who kickstarts cricket's push into the Olympic games after meeting with IOC president Thomas Bach in Rio on Saturday.
Australian Catherine Skinner will shoot for gold after winning the women's trap semi-final. She will face New Zealand's Natalie Rooney who edged American Corey Cogdell in a shoot-off.
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Australia's first ever medal in team archery has been claimed by the nation's top two sports administrators - the AOC's John Coates and the ASC's John Wylie - as evidence of each other's opposing views of what is required to drive this country to a top five position in the table of Olympic nations.
Alone in his apartment in south London, a 69-year-old man named Neil Horan watched a middle-of-the night broadcast of the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics. Like other viewers, he wondered which Brazilian would get the honor of lighting the Olympic cauldron.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored an 83rd-minute winner as Manchester United beat Leicester 2-1 to capture the Community Shield and earn Jose Mourinho his first trophy as the club's manager.
German tennis star Dustin Brown was booed, cursed and given a standing ovation by a parochial Brazilian crowd on a day that ended with the 31-year-old taken to a Rio De Janeiro hospital.
A man has been charged over a stabbing at a boarding house in Blacktown on Saturday.
World Paralympic bosses have taken the hardline decision the International Olympic Committee baulked at: to ban all Russian athletes from their imminent Rio Games.
Sightings of a shirtless Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are causing something of a stir across Canada.
The New York Yankees will release former MVP Alex Rodriguez from his 10-year, $US275 million contract and he will play his final game with the team on Friday.
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An Irishman is in custody, his passport confiscated after being arrested at a Rio hotel accused of illegally selling Olympic VIP tickets.
High winds have thrown the rowing schedule at the Rio Olympics into confusion with all competition cancelled on day two.
Round nine votes for The Age Footballer of the Year award for the 2016 premiership season.
Welcome to our live coverage of day two of competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Naturally there's no shortage of action to choose from. The highlights include the women's road race, women's rugby sevens quarter-finals and Cam McEvoy in the pool.
Australia's 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton has copped a barrage of abuse from Chinese swimming fans on social media in the wake of his sledge on rival Sun Yang.
Thailand on Sunday voted to accept a military-backed constitution, results based on 80 percent of votes counted showed.
Dockers defender Alex Silvagni gains praise after keeping key Eagles' forwards quiet.
The Big Four have struggled to explain why they stiffed mortgage holders last week and failed to pass on most of the RBA's rate cut. Is it time to get out Westpac's banana blender again?
The push to encourage more students to enrol in science and technology degrees is dangerous and risks leaving many graduates unemployed, the respected Grattan Institute has warned.
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