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Paris 2024 official hospitality portal launched by Fortius

  • Paris 2024

A hospitality package with a ticket to watch the men's 100 metres final at the Stade de France has been advertised at €8,500 (£7,500/$9,000) on the official portal launched by Swiss-based company Fortius.

are Austria, Germany and Switzerland, but the company will also distribute to over 30 Asian nations, Australia


Paralympics Australia signs landmark deal with Nine Entertainment in run-up to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024 Paralympics

Paralympics Australia have signed what they describe as a "landmark" media deal with the Nine Entertainment

media platforms, will enable the stories of our athletes to be told like never before," Paralympics Australia

Australia's partnership with Nine Entertainment has been hailed as a landmark for Para sport ©Paralympics Australia"I

added.The Australian team have participated at every Paralympics since their inception in 1960.At Tokyo, Australia


Victoria 2026 organisers launch hunt for Opening Ceremonies team

  • Victoria 2026

Organisers of Victoria 2026 have launched their quest for a team to produce "show-stopping" Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the next Commonwealth Games.

the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesThe last time the Commonwealth Games were held in Australia


MLB Together launches to promote power of baseball to unite communities

  • Baseball and Softball

Major League Baseball (MLB) Together, a new platform that aims to celebrate the power the sport has to unite communities, has been launched. 

earlier this year, has been named as an ambassador for the MLB Together project.Hendriks, who represented Australia


Olympic weightlifting champion and top coach unhappy with North Korea Paris 2024 "catastrophe"

  • Weightlifting

Confirmation of North Korea’s presence in the Paris 2024 qualifying programme was described as "the worst thing that has happened in weightlifting for 20 or 30 years" by one of the sport’s most renowned coaches.

were banned between August 2014 and April 2015.Despite Oceania’s clean record, weightlifters in Samoa, Australia

Our World Championships medallist in Australia, Eileen Cikamatana, was tested very late at night a couple



Olympic hockey player and Australian cricket captain Brian Booth dies at 89

  • Hockey

 Australian cricketer and hockey player Brian Booth, who has died at the age of 89, was one of the few men to compete at an Olympics and also play Test cricket for his country.

Booth played in 29 Test matches between 1961 and 1966, as well as representing Australia in hockey at

record on the playing field and as a leader are well documented and the fact he was able to captain Australia

and New South Wales in cricket, as well as play hockey for Australia at a home Olympics, shows just

He played in a 2-2 draw against Belgium and a 1-0 victory over New Zealand as Australia finished fifth

overall in the tournament.Cricket Australia is today mourning the loss of former Test captain Brian


Skylar Park - from junior world champion to serious contender

  • The Americas

After winning the Pan American Championships title in 2021, Canada's Skylar Park had every reason to contest the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in good heart, albeit that she was beaten in her preceding event, the Mexico Open, by Anastasija Zolotic of the United States.

out to Zolotic.Seeded third at Tokyo 2020, she won her opening match 25-15 against Stacey Hymer of Australia


Australia seal final Paris 2024 place on offer through men's World Rugby Sevens Series

  • Rugby Sevens

Australia clinched the final Paris 2024 Olympics qualification place via the route of the men's World

and Fiji.Olympic hosts France are automatically entitled to a qualification place, meaning Samoa and Australia

join them through the Sevens Series.Samoa topped Group C at the iconic Twickenham Stadium ahead of Australia

into the final 10-7 when he crossed the whitewash, breaking Samoan hearts and handing a lifeline to Australia

Final Olympic Qualification Tournament.Hosts France are joined by defending champions New Zealand, Australia



Birmingham 2022 walks gold medallist Montag among winners at UniSport Australia awards night

  • Universiade

Birmingham, earned the award for the most outstanding performance by a student-athlete at the UniSport Australia

class and won gold and silver at Birmingham 2022.Para-swimmer Tim Hodge won a big award at the UniSport Australia

and seventh in the women’s slalom standing category, thus became one of the select few to compete for Australia

Men’s 3x3 Basketball Team which won the UniSport Nationals in Hobart and then won silver representing Australia

UniSport Nationals in Perth where he competed as an openly gay student-athlete.He is also, as a UniSport Australia

areas including alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and safe transport.Andrew Truong from the University of South Australia



Houston to lead Commonwealth Games Australia at Victoria 2026 after appointed for second term

  • Victoria 2026

Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has re-elected Ben Houston for a fresh four-year term as President

President in 2018 after the former weightlifter ended his 20-year stint in the role.Former Triathlon Australia

President Houston has also served as Australian Sailing chief executive since 2019.Australia again topped

Victoria 2026 Board, and wants to build on the success of Birmingham 2022 when the Games return to Australia

Australia became the first nation to reach 1,000 Commonwealth Games gold medals at Birmingham 2022 ©Getty

executive of Australia's Women’s National Basketball League and head of women's football at Football Australia



Thomas Cup winners India out of Sudirman Cup at group stage

  • Badminton

India were the highest-profile casualty from the group stage of badminton's Sudirman Cup in Suzhou, falling to Malaysia and Chinese Taipei.

Australia completed the Group C line-up which looked the toughest of the four at the mixed team tournament

Malaysia who won the group decider 4-1 against Chinese Taipei to finish top, after both teams had beaten Australia

5-0.A 4-1 victory against Australia provided some consolation for India.Malaysia are set to face Group