TASSIE JAVELIN thrower Hamish Peacock is one of the truly colourful characters of track and field. JOHN CRAVEN tracks him from a Burnie cricket ball-throwing competition to a silver medal at the Gold Coast Games. More »
IT’S ONE of the oldest sports in the book and Australia’s dynamic Dani continues to add her own slices of history to it, writes RON REED. More »
PREDICTABLY, IT HASN'T taken long for South African superstar Caster Semenya to make her first Commonwealth Games memorable, writes RON REED. More »
HE DOES it the hard way but wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley has few equals among Australia’s Commonwealth games team, says chief writer RON REED. More »
THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES had barely begun when the event lost perhaps the biggest drawcard it had, but Australia’s best track and field athlete is far from finished, writes RON REED. More »
AUSTRALIA is headed for a bleak medals haul in athletics at the Commonwealth Games this year if the final Commonwealth rankings lists are anything to go by, as MIKE HURST reports: More »
OVER more than 50 years reporting sports of all sorts, GEOFF POULTER has watched stars come and go. He reckons he knows why some shine brighter than others. More »
Simon Schneider’s take on Usain Bolt being beaten at the World Championships in London. More »