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Turkmenistan withdraws from qualifiers for AFC Asian Women's Cup 2022

  • Football

Turkmenistan has withdrawn from qualifying for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup 2022 in India.

each of them joining automatic qualifiers India as hosts and the 2018 tournament’s top three in Japan, Australia

February 6 2022, and will also serve as a qualifying tournament for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia


Players reprimanded by Rugby Australia over drunken antics on plane from Tokyo

  • Tokyo 2020

A number of Australian rugby sevens players are set to undergo alcohol counselling following their drunken antics on the return flight from the Olympic games here. 

Rugby Australia has announced that every member of the squad that represented the country at the Games

and Football Australia agreed to launch their own investigations into the reports."

Rugby Australia has a zero-tolerance approach towards poor behaviour and expects the highest standards

Australia suffered a 19-0 defeat to Fiji in the quarter-finals of the men’s rugby sevens tournament.Two

Rugby Australia chief executive Andy Marinos has spoken of his disappointment of the misbehaviour of


PacificAus Sports give Solomon Islands women's football league funds with sights on 2023 Pacific Games

  • Solomon Islands 2023

The Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) has become the first governing body in the Pacific to receive a sporting grant through the PacificAus Sports programme, which looks to support the new Solomon Islands Women’s Premier League in the build-up to the country's hosting of the 2023 Pacific Games.

hosts the Pacific Games.According to SIFF Executive Committee member Jimmy Keveseka, the equipment from Australia

IJxZs2xvpG— Emma Evans (@emma_evans7) March 24, 2021Australian High Commissioner Lachlan Strahan said Australia

 "Australia is committed to making sure that women and girls get an equal chance to excel and become

 "Australia will continue to support sport and in Solomon Islands, for women and men, in the lead-up

The PacificAus Sports programme aims to create high-performance partnerships between Australia and the


Belgium beat Australia in dramatic shootout to clinch first Olympic hockey title

  • Hockey

champions Belgium secured their first Olympic hockey title after prevailing in a dramatic shootout with Australia

Vanasch, leaving Tom Wickham with an easy tap-in to level the Olympic final.While world number one-ranked Australia

who had earlier made a spectacular diving save to prevent Jeremy Hayward from restoring parity for Australia

The triumph saw Belgium, ranked second in the world behind Australia, complete their rise to the very

the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where they were beaten 4-2 in the final by Argentina.Defeat for Australia



Rugby League World Cup postponed to 2022

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The Rugby League World Cup has been postponed until 2022 after Australia and New Zealand withdrew from

Australia are the defending men's and women's world champions, while New Zealand sit second and first

rankings.The two nations withdrew last month citing concerns over the worsening coronavirus situation in Australia

We appreciate the situation is radically different in Australia and New Zealand and we are confident

together for the first time.International Rugby League chairman Troy Grant said he was confident that Australia


Carrington makes history for New Zealand with golden hat-trick at Tokyo 2020

  • Canoeing

Lisa Carrington has become New Zealand’s outright most decorated Olympian in history after winning her third gold medal of Tokyo 2020 - and fifth of her career - with victory in today’s women’s K1 500-metre final here.

Luzan of Ukraine clinching bronze in 47.034.Jean van der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green clinched gold for Australia



Disability Sports Australia partners with children's charity Variety

  • Paralympics

Disability Sports Australia (DSA) has partnered with children's charity Variety to deliver Activate Inclusion

young people across Australia.DSA is set to roll out the programmes in the Northern Territory, South Australia

from Variety.Murray Elbourn, chief executive of DSA, spoke specifically on the partnership in South Australia

AU (@DisSportsAus) March 16, 2021"This highlights the needs of students with disabilities in South Australia

Variety South Australia are committed to supporting this initiative that will begin in term four of 2021


Rugby League World Cup set for postponement until 2022

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Rugby League World Cup is expected to finally be postponed tomorrow - two weeks after New Zealand and Australia

the tournament" - but it is being widely reported now that the tournament will be delayed until 2022.Australia

(RLWC2021) between October 23 and November 27.Concerns over the worsening coronavirus situation in Australia


Saudi Arabia and Guam to host FIBA Asia Cup last-chance qualifiers

  • Basketball

Saudi Arabia and Guam are set to host the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup qualifiers, giving an opportunity for third-ranked teams from the qualification tournaments to reach the finals next year.

between August 26 and 28, with the outright winner qualifying for the finals.So far, Lebanon, Bahrain, Australia


Gibraltar chosen to host Netball World Youth Cup 2025

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The 2025 Netball World Youth Cup is to be held at the Tercentenary Sports Hall and Europa Sports Park in Gibraltar.

and was rebranded as the Netball World Youth Cup for the 2017 edition in Botswana.New Zealand beat Australia

Netball World Youth Cup will be the first edition of the tournament in eight years.New Zealand and Australia

New Zealand and Australia have both won the World Youth Cup four times, and are the only champions.


Olympic champion Schauffele back in action at WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational

  • Golf

The World Golf Championships (WGC)-FedEx St. Jude Invitational begins tomorrow at TPC Southwind in Memphis, and new Olympic golf champion Xander Schauffele features in a stacked field for the third WGC event of the year.

tournaments during his career, but never an Invitational.He is out with two-time WGC winner Adam Scott from Australia


De Grasse holds off American trio to win Olympic 200m gold for Canada

  • Athletics

Andre De Grasse held off three United States sprinters, including world champion Noah Lyles, to become the first Canadian winner of the men's Olympic 200 metres title since Percy Williams in 1928.

Ferguson Rotich.Korir won in 1:45.06 after chasing and passing the leader at the bell, Peter Bol of Australia

ImagesPatryk Dobek, Poland's European indoor champion, was the third runner to sweep past Bol - who arrived in Australia

Canadian Damian Warner finished as overnight leader on 4,722 points with 21-year-old Ashley Moloney of Australia


Australian Olympians accused of bad behaviour on flight from Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

Australian athletes have been accused of "unacceptable behaviour" on a flight back home from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here as an investigation gets underway into the conduct of the country’s football and rugby sevens teams.

and Football Australia had both launched their own investigations into the reports."

" ©Getty Images"Rugby Australia has begun its own internal investigation into the matter based on the

information provided by the AOC," a statement from Rugby Australia read."

Rugby Australia expects the highest standards of all its employees, modelling the values of our game

the involvement of any footballers".Australia suffered a 19-0 defeat to Fiji in the quarter-finals of