Olympics is the pinnacle of sporting achievement and it may look exhilarating but it’s also expensive, so the ACT Government is chipping in $100,000 for 34 local athletes.
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With under two months remaining until the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the ACT government has unveiled funding for 34 local athletes to aid them in covering the expenses linked to qualifying and gearing up for the Games.
Riding the Olympic Wave: Breakthrough Sports is a co-production between the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the National Museum of Australia.
Matildas veteran Michelle Heyman has stepped up in Olympic qualifiers against Uzbekistan and is adamant she can keep pushing to snare a prized ticket to Paris.
Nineteen-year-old sprint sensation Torrie Lewis has tonight earned the title of the fastest Australian woman in history, etching her name into the record books with a run of 11.10 (+1.6) over 100m at the ACT Open and Under 20 Championships.
The days of rowdy skateboarders scaling fences and running from security are long gone, but Australian skateboarding executives now fear it’s an unfeasible sport for many kids who lack financial support.
Poland believes it will be possible to build a coalition of some 40 countries - including Australia - over the next week that would support the call to block Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics.
