The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay ...
The Australian Olympic movement was in full force last week in Australia’s red centre. Coaches from the Australian Olympic Indigenous Coaching Scholarship (AOICS) program supported by Toyota held ...
Edwin Flack was a trailblazer - the first Australian to compete at the Olympic Games, and first to win. When he left Melbourne in 1895 to study accountancy in London, he was the Australian mile ...
Andrew Hoy 8 (Equestrian - Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, London 2012, Tokyo 2020). NB Hoy was selected for Moscow 1980 but Equestrian section ...
Born the child of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal parents, Patty Mills has utilised his on-court talents to grow his philanthropic work away from the hardwood, rising as a symbol of hope for ...
Basketballer Michael Ah Matt and boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts became the first Indigenous Australians to call themselves Olympians when they competed at the Tokyo 1964 Games. In 1992 at ...
Melbourne native NIcholas Lavery began training at Rowing Australia’s Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre in Canberra in 2020, with Olympic ambitions the reasoning for his move to the nation’s ...
Growing up in Camden, on the southwestern outskirts of Sydney, Joshua Bell took up shooting because it was what his Dad did. “It was a way for my Dad and myself to spend time together,” Joshua said.
The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from around the country who demonstrate the Olympic spirit – friendship, sportsmanship and striving for excellence - both on ...
Jo Hill won a silver medal as a member of the Australian women’s basketball team in 2000. A talented and versatile player, Hill provided a spark off the bench as the Opals reached its first Olympic ...
Sydney academic Rachael Gunn is leading something of a double life. By day she is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature and Language at Macquarie University.
The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises secondary students from across the country and provides them with the opportunity to share ideas, connect with other like-minded people and be ...