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WBSC reveal Premier 12 Group C schedule in Seoul

  • Baseball and Softball

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) have unveiled the Group C schedule for the 2019 WBSC Premier12, a qualifier for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

will host matches in the group.The group features defending Premier12 champions South Korea, Cuba, Australia

opening match at the 16,813-seat Gocheok Sky Dome is due to see Cuba face Canada on November 6, with Australia

and South Korea then going head-to-head.The group stage is scheduled to conclude on November 8 when Australia


Sir Austin Sealy – the man who set the CARIFTA Games notion in motion and gave athletics a gift that keeps on giving

  • The Big Read

This coming Saturday will see the start of the 48th CARIFTA Games – the touchstone junior track and field competition for the Caribbean region that has energised and accelerated the careers of generations of athletes. Did anybody mention Usain Bolt? Of course. We’ll get back to him.

a desire to move the Games around the Commonwealth after many years of it rotating between Britain, Australia


Three world records for home favourite Talakhadze in European Weightlifting Championships

  • Weightlifting

A noisy home crowd in Batumi, Georgia were on their feet on the final day of the European Weightlifting Championships when Lasha Talakhadze smashed three of his own world records in the final event, the men’s super-heavyweights.

Leonid Taranenko lifted 266kg, the highest ever single lift, at a sponsored super-heavyweight contest in Australia





IOC President Bach to attend Australian Olympic Committee AGM for first time

  • ONOC

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Bach will attend the Australian Olympic Committee's (AOC) Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May for the first time.

 An Order of Merit will also be presented to former sprinter Raelene Boyle, who represented Australia

then give his review of the year and will focus his opening speech on the state of the Olympics in Australia


Russia's Team Paradise make perfect start to ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships in Helsinki

  • Skating

Finland’s Team Marigold Ice Unity, five-times winners of the International Skating Union (ISU) World Synchronized Skating Championships, made a strong start to the defence of their title in Helsinki tonight - but not strong enough to head Russia’s Team Paradise.

medals, nine of them gold, followed by Sweden, who have 13 medals, and Canada, who have 12.Teams from Australia


Australian wins opening racing at IBSF women's monobob in Lake Placid as Beijing 2022 build-up continues

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Australia’s Ashleigh Werner claimed pole position after the first of two days of racing at Lake Placid in the last women’s monobob event in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) calendar for 2018-2019 season.

year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang their entry was annulled at the last minute by Sliding Sports Australia

ImagesFollowing a training week with coaches and sleds provided by the IBSF, female bobsleigh pilots from Australia


First FIFA eNations Cup to begin in London

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Some 40 players from 20 countries are set to contest the first edition of the FIFA eNations Cup in London.

each nation.Other leading players were selected by their member associations, FIFA state.Argentina, Australia

Germany, Norway, Sweden, Argentina and Brazil locking horns in Group C.Group D pits Portugal, Russia, Australia


United States, Fiji and New Zealand aim to clinch Olympic qualification at World Rugby Sevens Series in Singapore

  • Rugby Sevens

United States, Fiji and New Zealand could clinch Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification at the eighth event of the World Rugby Sevens Series in Singapore.

history of these traditional rugby sevens nations like Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa, England and Australia

where they face defending champions Fiji, Scotland and Canada.France will lock horns with Argentina, Australia



WBSC announce Group A and B schedules for WBSC Premier12

  • Baseball and Softball

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has revealed part of the group-stage schedule for the 2019 WBSC Premier12 – a qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

 The schedule for Group C, comprising defending champions South Korea, Cuba, Australia and Canada


Paralympics Australia launches online history to preserve and promote Movement

  • Paralympics

Paralympics Australia has announced the launch of “Paralympic Stories” to provide an online history of

in 2010.The project is aimed at capturing and preserving the history of the Paralympic Movement in Australia

, as well as finding ways to share the information in a relevant and accessible way.Paralympics Australia

“Paralympics Australia is extremely proud of Paralympic Stories,” Anderson said.

“Kevin represented Australia on a British passport at the 1960 Paralympic Games, because as the first

and partners, including the University of Queensland.The National Library of Australia, the National


Lake Placid hosts concluding IBSF women’s monobob racing of the season

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

The last women’s monobob event in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation’s 2018/2019 season goes into race mode tomorrow in the United States resort of Lake Placid.

Following a training week with coaches and sleds provided by the IBSF, female bobsleigh pilots from Australia