Commonwealth Games 2018, Gold Coast: Australia's Pearson ...

5 Apr 2018 Australian track star Sally Pearson pulled out of the Commonwealth Games today after failing to recover from an Achilles problem, dealing a heavy blow to the event. Sally expressed disappointment but added that she needed to give herself the best ...

World athletics chief Sebastian Coe blasted the "obsession" with Usain Bolt as track and field entered its new era without the Jamaican showman at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Coe said there was no shortage of athletics talent for the Games, the first ...

IMAGE: Australia's aboriginal heritage was the central theme of the ceremony which lasted a little over two hours under overcast and often drizzling skies.Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty Images Indigenous rights protestors, a heavy rain shower and transport issues provided a turbulent backdrop to the opening ceremony of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. About 100 noisy but peaceful protestors were contained by police outside the venue some 90 minutes before the official start of ...

Australia celebrated its ancestry and native traditions in a soul-stirring Commonwealth Games opening ceremony but protests by indigenous aboriginals against the very idea of Commonwealth came as a poignant reminder of the unforgotten colonial brutalities. Ironically, Australia's aboriginal heritage was the central theme of the ceremony which lasted a little over two hours under overcast and often drizzling skies. The buzz that seemed lacking in the build-up to the Games was very much ...

Spooked by a needle controversy but in high spirits nonetheless, the jumbo Indian contingent would be aiming to make it all good with strong medal-winning performances when the acutely-low-on-buzz Commonwealth Games starts on Wednesday with an opening ...

Athletes to watch at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games: NICOL DAVID (Squash, Malaysia) IMAGE: Nicol David of Malaysia plays a backhand. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images The eight-times world champion is facing unknown territory entering a competition where she is not a favourite for the title having had a slump in form. She is still ranked third for the women's singles at Oxenford Studios behind England's Laura Massaro and New Zealand's Joelle King, but has been in Australia for ...

With Usain Bolt retired after almost a decade of freakish dominance, the Commonwealth Games looks to track and field's support cast to trigger public interest as Australian sport reels from a damaging cricket scandal. The stage had been set for triple Olympic ...

IMAGE: Laureus World Sports Awards academy member and former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh with fellow academy member and Brazilian racing legend Emerson Fittipaldi. Photograph: Steve Waugh/Instagram A galaxy of sporting stars from across the world, including cricketers Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh descended on the sovereign city-state along the French Riviera in Monaco on Sunday for the 18th edition of the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards 2018 to be held on February 27.   ...

Australia's champion javelin thrower Jarrod Bannister has died suddenly in the Netherlands, Athletics Australia said today.Bannister, 33, who won gold at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and was the national javelin record holder, had been training and ...