Paris Olympics gold medallist Grace Brown has retired from cycling, after taking out the Chrono des Nations time trial for the first time.
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Australian surfing star Tyler Wright’s family has spoken out after the World Surf League confirmed Abu Dhabi will host the second event on the 2025 Championship Tour calendar.
WSL officials announced the tie-up in August and locked in the schedule last week, days after the UAE’s man-made venue hosted its first ever professional event with the Longboard Classic.
Wright, a two-time world champion, came out as bisexual in 2020 and married her wife Lilli two years later.
“This schedule should (be) rethought,” her brother and occasional CT surfer Mikey wrote on the WSL’s post.
“You have no business putting on an event at a location where my sister can be sentenced by law with the death penalty. So much for equality and equal rights, only when it’s convenient to WSL.
“You have supported the LGBTQ flag on her shoulder but now you want to strip it and be hush-hush to get her to a location that she’s at risk of this punishment.
“You have the responsibility to protect your athletes, interested to see how you think you can protect her against the law.”
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sports washing. happens all the time. as i bisexual man i see it. countries using sports to remove focus from human rights issues. F1 is a major contributor to this
Biggest contributor to this is just how crazy rich these countries are with their oil reserves, they can shun everyone and use this to deflect their human rights abuses.
Perhaps someone needs to take them down a peg financially and we’ll see how they’ll afford this events.
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Marc Marquez has won the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix for the fourth time, his first since 2019. Pole sitter Jorge Martin led for the first 25 laps, but he was overtaken by Marquez with two laps remaining.
Marquez had a poor start when the rear tyre of his bike slipped and emitted smoke. Turns out he tore a small piece off the visor on his bike which then slipped beneath the rear tyre.
Australian Jack Miller finished 11th.
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Team New Zealand has defended the America’s Cup in sailing.
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Really great weekend for us overall.
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Six athletes and two general members were named by Sport Australia on Thursday, with the official ceremony to be held next month.
Fanning, who was world champion in 2007, 2009 and 2013, is joined by former Kookaburras’ captain Mark Knowles, lawn bowls star Karen Murphy, Olympic gold medallist Sally Pearson, Supercars and Bathurst 1000 champion Mark Skaife and dual-sport Paralympics champion Liesl Tesch.
Inducted as general members to the hall of fame will be Gerry Ryan and the late basketball administrator Betty Watson.
Fanning, Knowles, Murphy and Pearson attended a small ceremony at Melbourne’s Langham Hotel today, where each of them received a Hall of Fame medal in front of the media.
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New Zealand have won Constellation Cup in netball for only the third time, and for the first time in Australia.
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Los Angeles Dodgers have won a dramatic game 5 of baseball World Series against New York Yankees 7-6, to claim the series 4-1. The Yankees raced to a 5-0 lead after three innings, only to have the Dodgers scoring five runs in the fifth inning to tie the scores.
The Dodgers won the first three games (including the first two at home), before the Yankees rebounded to take game four on Tuesday 11-4, scoring four runs in the third inning and five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
It is the Dodgers’ first World Series title since 2020 and their eighth overall championship.
Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman was named World Series MVP.
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And the series, to take out the “World” Championship (4-1)!
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The announcement was made at New York City Marathon yesterday.
A total of 20,272 people finished the Sydney Marathon in September this year, which was shown live on SBS.
Speaking of New York City Marathon, Seven’s Abbey Holmes completed the event for the first time and was in tears at the finish line.
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Knight’s Choice has won this year’s Melbourne Cup. It is trainer Sheila Laxon’s second Cup, 23 years after Ethereal. The winning jockey Robbie Dolan was a contestant on The Voice Australia in 2022.
Warp Speed was second and Okita Soushi was third. Just Fine was last.
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I suspect there will be quite a few people in Newcastle tonight with fatter wallets. Myself being one of them
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Was it just me or was it held unusually earlier, especially the Welcome (I missed Uncle Colin) and pre entertainment?
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🏐 After an incredible display under the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Olympics, international beach volleyball is heading down under in 2025!
— AUS Olympic Team (@AUSOlympicTeam) November 7, 2024
The 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships are coming to Adelaide from 14 to 23 November and you can be there to see Australia take on… pic.twitter.com/tuM47xWK08
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That’s why Raygun will be at the desk on The Project tonight.
It was reported five months ago that the event was at risk of not being held in Adelaide due to lack of federal funding. Good to see the one year countdown has begun.
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The Victorian Government announced this morning that Melbourne’s John Cain Arena would host a Pro Kabaddi League exhibition match on December 28 this year, after stumps on the third day’s play of the Australia-India cricket test at the MCG.
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