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Months-long lockdowns across Australia have thrust a recent study of their effects on athletes into the spotlight. Mental health experts from Monash University’s School of Psychological Sciences surveyed 375 elite and sub-elite Australian athletes, almost all of whom suffered during the lockdowns.
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The AFL trade period finished on Wednesday with the usual flurry of action. A lack of overall action in previous days was suspected to be the calm before the storm, but there were doubts over whether the trade downpour would ever arrive.
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Graham Arnold expects his Socceroos side to “improve in every facet” against Vietnam tonight following last week’s 3-0 win against China. Speaking at a press conference from Hanoi, the Australian head coach was steadfastly optimistic ahead of the World Cup qualification contest kicking off at 10:00pm AEST. “I expect a great performance,” Arnold said. Continue…
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We won’t see an 18-team AFLW for another 16 months, but the excitement at Essendon is already palpable. It was announced last week that Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, Sydney and the Bombers would enter in the 2022-23 season, just under six years after the inaugural eight-team competition.
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Melbourne’s lockdown has left a local footy team’s premiership hopes hanging by a thread. With finals fast approaching and epidemiologists predicting a lockdown extension, Werribee Centrals could be excluded from the Geelong District Football League’s season conclusion.
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Flyweight boxer Alex Winwood certainly won’t be missing out on Olympic glory without a fight. Having taken up the sport at 15 after a chance encounter with a coach on a Western Australian street, the still-teenaged Winwood soon found himself at the Rio 2016 selection event.
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The Matildas have less than two weeks until they begin a second consecutive Olympic campaign. Before the opener, get to know all the important information, plus some that’s not so important, on every Matilda in the Olympic squad.
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The 16th A-League Grand Final certainly didn’t disappoint for memorable player performances. Kick360’s been watching the replay on repeat since last night and has assessed each player, rating their performances out of 10.
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Four-time cycling world champion Kaarle McCulloch will soon be speeding on Tokyo’s slick tracks at the Olympics, but the road to get there hasn’t been without its bumps. Adamant she was going to be “just like Cathy Freeman”, McCulloch initially resented the idea of racing on wheels.
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In its 15 completed campaigns, some of the A-League’s finest moments have come in the finals. Since Central Coast’s Matthew Osman scored the first finals goal on the evening of 10 February 2006, we’ve seen nets bulge a further 205 times over the seasons’ last three weeks.
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