A national holiday was declared in Nauru and a remote community was visited in Kiribati as the Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton Relay travelled to its first nations in Oceania.

following.The Baton will then head to Vanuatu, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.It will eventually arrive in Australia

Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), 17 NOCs from Oceania were allowed to participate at the Games, including Australia

Harley Windsor is set to become the first indigenous athlete to represent Australia at the Winter Olympic

Australia has revealed its Opening Ceremony jacket for Pyeongchang 2018 ©Getty ImagesThe AOC also revealed

Australia won three medals - two silver and a bronze - at Sochi 2014 to finish 24th overall. 

South Korea clinched the men's and women's titles on the final day of the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Erina.

 The bronze medal in the men's event was secured by Japan, who thrashed hosts Australia 11-4."

Basketball England have appointed Mark Lloyd as manager of its men's squad at next year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast. 

Melbourne 2006 when England won the bronze medal, beating Nigeria 78-75 in the third-place play-off as Australia

fellow Pool B rivals India and Cameroon on April 7 and 8 respectively.Pool A of the men's event features Australia

England winger Jermaine McGillvary has been cleared of biting an opponent by a Rugby League World Cup judiciary panel.

first and third respectively in the group, with the two nations set to meet on Saturday (November 11).Australia

Marit Bouwmeester and Peter Burling have been named female and male 2017 Rolex World Sailors of the Year at the inaugural World Sailing Awards in Mexico.

gold at Rio 2016, followed by a well-earned victory at the 2016 World Cup Series Final in Melbourne, Australia

into the women's final at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships as they thrashed Hong Kong 14-2 in Australia

and final end.China set up a meeting with South Korea in the final with a narrow 7-6 win over hosts Australia

Home shooter Scott Anderson of Australia was a winner on the final day of the Commonwealth Shooting Federation

competition at the trial for the Gold Coast Games with a total of 559, seven shots clear of his fellow Australia

Evglevski.Anderson and Evglevski’s performance was sufficient to earn overall victory for Team A over Australia

South Korea sealed the final playoff spot in the men's competition at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Erina today and will now face top seeds Japan in the semi-final.

It followed the conclusion of the men's round-robin stage at the Erina Ice Arena.Hosts Australia will

Zealand 10-4 today.New Zealand, however, kept their hopes of progression alive with a 10-5 victory over Australia

Australian Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond says he has been left with no alternative but to sell his a haul of gold medals .

Shooting Australia has today become aware that Olympic shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond has been

successful in an appeal against his May firearms convictions," a Shooting Australia statement said

China's women and Australia's men were among teams to guarantee semi-final spots today at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in Erina.

China defeated winless hosts Australia 11-4 in the women's competition, at the Erina Ice Arena.Jiang

The news the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) has fully repaid a loan to the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) ahead of schedule is a vote of confidence in its management, it has been claimed. 

through a challenging period in the organisation's history and into a new era of Paralympic sport in Australia

Poland's Justyna Kaczkowska won gold in the individual pursuit to delight a feverish home crowd on the final day of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Cup in Pruszków.

claimed a second gold, lifting the keirin title over Russia's Daria Shmeleva and Stephanie Morton of Australia

In a direct appeal to voters involved in selecting the hosts of the 2023 Rugby World Cup (RWC), the Irish bid chairman, Dick Spring, has expressed "shock" at the "narrow, operational and theoretical" approach which, he claims, the technical review group took in selecting South Africa in preference to either France or Ireland.

 Argentina, Australia, England, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland and  Wales carry three votes apiece.Japan

Cup ©Getty ImagesEach union with multiple votes can chose to split up their allocation, meaning that Australia