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Incentives for Aussie athletes

Sports | Olympics
2008-11-22

THE Australian Olympic Committee has upgraded incentive payments for athletes in a bid to regain a top-five place on the London 2012 medal standings, but the extra cash comes at the expense of their coaches. The...

D'Arcy's dreams over as AOC keeps him out

Sports | Olympics
2008-6-12

THE Australian Olympic Committee has voted to kick swimmer Nick D'Arcy off the team for Beijing for his role in a nightclub brawl that left a former competitor with serious facial injuries. The AOC executive...

CAS ruling gives hope to D'Arcy

Sports | Olympics
2008-5-29

THE Australian Olympic Committee will reopen its case against swimmer Nick D'Arcy after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled it had not followed correct procedures when banning him from this year's Olympics. ...

Australia hikes cash incentives

Sport | Olympics
2006-11-23

THE Australian Olympic Committee has boosted funding for elite athletes training for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to more than 5 million Australian dollars (US$3.85 million).

CAS overturns 2-year ban on Aussie cyclist

Sport | Doping
2005-7-13

AUSTRALIAN cyclist Mark French had a two-year ban for doping offenses overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Australian cycling officials said yesterday.

Australia to spend millions for 2008

Sport | Olympics
2004-11-17

THE Australian Olympic Committee will spend A$17.8 million (US$13.7 million) to help top athletes like swimmers Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett prepare for the 2008 Games.

Doping athletes

Sport | Doping
2004-7-27

SOME American athletes probably used performance-enhancing drugs at past Olympics, Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates said yesterday. He said the absence of track and field world records at the Sydney Games in 2000 will probably be replicated at Athens next month because countries were getting better at testing for drugs. And he said there had to be doubts over anyone breaking athletics world records at Athens, while there had to be concerns about previous performances, especially by American athletes.

Tainted Aussies under cloud again

Sport | Olympics
2004-7-5

A DAY after the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) gave five drug-investigated cyclists the all-clear to compete at next month's Athens Games, fresh claims of possible illegal drug use emerged yesterday on a television current affairs show.

French gets life ban

Sport | Cycling
2004-6-22

CYCLIST Mark French, suspended for two years from competition for drug offenses, was banned for life from representing Australia at the Olympics by the Australian Olympic Committee yesterday.

Aussies to take own security

Sport | Swimming
2004-5-7

AUSTRALIA'S Olympic swim team, which includes superstar Ian Thorpe, will take its own security guards to Athens in August, Australian Swimming Chief Executive Glenn Tasker said yesterday.