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ASC supported skate facility to boost Paris preparations

Australia’s skaters have received a big boost ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with a new indoor training facility unveiled on the Gold Coast.

Jada Whyman has a yarn to share

Storytelling is intrinsic to Jada Whyman’s Indigenous culture. Her maternal grandfather was the eldest of 14 children raised in a tin shack on a NSW riverbank, and reunited decades later with several of the 10 siblings forcibly removed as part of the Stolen Generations.

“Sport is for everyone”: AIS partners with Pride in Sport

The AIS has strengthened its commitment to creating a safe and supportive community for LGBTIQ+ athletes, coaches and staff by becoming a Principal Partner Member of Pride in Sport.

Beach Volleyball comes to the AIS in Canberra

Kieren Perkins to lead Australian sport

The Chair of the Australian Sports Commission Josephine Sukkar AM welcomes the appointment of Kieren Perkins OAM as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Success of our athletes in Tokyo a team effort that includes all of us

Deputy chair of the Australian Sports Commission, Steve Moneghetti, writes that the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Australia is celebrating much more than gold medals.

Concussion in Sport Australia launches toolkit and position statement

Australia’s leading sports medicine experts are urging athletes, coaches and parents across all levels of sport to heed the message “if in doubt, sit them out”.

Sport needs you back: an open letter to every volunteer and participant

'It was with optimism and pride that we were able to launch the Return to Sport Toolkit this week, moving a step closer to the resumption of community sport.'

Aussie coaches and athletes checking in for R U OK?Day

Sport is at the centre of many communities across Australia and this R U OK?Day, Thursday 10 September, coaches and athletes are encouraging everyone involved in sport from high performance to grassroots level to check in with one another, and ask R U OK?

Indigenous communities to Share a Yarn with elite athletes

Olympic race-walker Beki Smith and Western Sydney Wanderers goalkeeper Jada Whyman are amongst 13 current and former elite athletes who have joined together to ‘Share a Yarn’ with remote Indigenous communities across the country.