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Sep 26, 2026 - Sports

As a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivetyIt was a regular match. Until it wasn’t. In 1969, I was 17 and had been living in Sydney with my tennis coach, Vic Edwards, and his family for several years. I had left my home town of Barellan – on Wirajudjuri country in the Riverina region of New South Wales – to pursue my tennis dreams in the big smoke.The year before, I had finished high school at Willoughby girls high – where I was the only Aboriginal student – and I was doing my secretarial course in the city. The Metropolitan Business College where I studied was conveniently located near the headquarters of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. Continue reading...

Sep 26, 2026 - Sports

Yuki Kurihara storms to Puyo Puyo title aged 11Organizers ‘not satisfied’ with sluggish ticket salesWeightlifting world records continue to tumbleEel-loving schoolboy Yuki Kurihara, 11, won an Asian Games gold medal in Japan on Saturday, more weightlifting world records were set and organizers admitted they were “not satisfied” with ticket sales after swaths of empty seats were seen at the athletics.Kurihara, believed to be the youngest competitor at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya, romped to a 10-2 victory in the esports game Puyo Puyo Champions after going 1-0 down in the final. Continue reading...

Sep 26, 2026 - Sports

When things are going awry, the Albiceleste will no longer be able to rely on their ultimate get-out clauseIt isn’t quite over yet. Lionel Messi will return a week on Wednesday for his formal farewell in a friendly against Benin, but, before that, Argentina face two games when they will begin to experience a future without the most potent get-out-of-jail-free card football has known.Messi’s international career falls into two distinct halves. There was the first decade when there was a sense that he didn’t quite fit, was somehow insufficiently Argentinian, didn’t care for his country. That was always absurd and can be recognised now as a manifestation of the Argentinian public’s frustration at their trophy drought despite the presence in their forward line of one of the best three to play the game. Continue reading...

Sep 26, 2026 - Sports

Demi Vollering powers to victory in brutal Montreal raceTour de France Femmes champion wins sprint finishDemi Vollering won the longest edition of the women’s world road race championship in a brutal and compelling sprint finale in Montreal.The 29-year-old’s success capped a remarkable season in which she has also won a second Tour de France title, the Giro women, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Flanders. Continue reading...

Sep 26, 2026 - Sports

Two-time Ballon d’Or winner nets against BrightonAlex Greenwood’s free-kick sinks CharltonAlexia Putellas scored her first WSL goal as London City Lionesses moved second in the table after beating Brighton 2-0 at home.The two-time Ballon d’Or winner, who left Barcelona in the summer, put London City ahead in the 29th minute when she slotted a low shot into the far corner. Continue reading...