Tag: Australia
Ex-Canadian Olympic gold medalist leads Australian swimming
GOLD COAST, Australia — Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Alex Baumann has been named chief executive of Swimming Australia, moving up from his current...
Report: Manchester United looks to buy Australian team
SYDNEY — Manchester United is reported to be interested in joining its English Premier League city rival and become a team owner in Australia’s...
Australia rules out adding J&J vaccine to inoculation plan
CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government said Tuesday it had decided against buying the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and identified a second...
Brazilian, US surfers win opening WSL event in Australia
NEWCASTLE, Australia — Defending World Surf League champion Italo Ferreira won an all-Brazilian men’s final Saturday over Gabriel Medina at the Newcastle Cup, the...
Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97
BERLIN — The Australian photographer and actress June Newton — also known under her pseudonym Alice Springs — has died at 97, the Helmut...
Aussie field hockey teams face lack of games before Olympics
PERTH, Australia — Australia's traditionally strong Olympic field hockey teams are having trouble playing competitive matches ahead of the Tokyo Games, not unlike dozens...
Spithill navigates from America’s Cup loss to SailGP debut
Three weeks after his Italian-based team lost the America’s Cup match on New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf, Australian-born Jimmy Spithill has arrived on Bermuda’s Great...
A paper cowboy rides out his quarantine in Australian hotel
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — By Day 3 of being confined to his Australian hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored. He'd watched...
Darmanin, Curtis chosen to try to make Aussie SailGP team
Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Lisa Darmanin and Nina Curtis could get to the America’s Cup was by taking jobs...
Ex-Olympic silver medalist Baggaley guilty of drug importing
BRISBANE, Australia — Former two-time Olympic silver medalist canoeist Nathan Baggaley and his younger brother have been found guilty of plotting to smuggle 200...
