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• Lacrosse’s journey back to the Olympics

  Australia’s Olympians took home 35 medals in the 2012 London games, but should they start training in lacrosse for 2016?

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• Swimmers admit Stilnox use, deny bullying at Olympics

  

  The Australian men’s swimming 4x100m relay team have faced the media today over allegations of bad behaviour at the 2012 London Olympics. Four of the six Aussie swim team members have admitted to taking Stilnox in a ‘bonding session’.

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• Aussie Olympians to sign no doping stat dec: AOC

  

  Australia will likely become the first nation to order its Olympians to sign a legal document stating they have no doping history in a landmark move athletes say will flush out drug cheats.

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• Improving is incentive for Anna Meares

  

  Anna Meares accepts she can’t top her London Olympics heroics but she believes she can get better – and that’s the incentive that could keep her on track to Rio 2016.

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• Aussie Olympians bask in glory on return home but already looking to Rio

  

  They may have just arrived home but Australia’s Olympians are already preparing their campaign for Rio in 2016 after scraping into the top 10 on the medal table in London.

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• Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk in AOC hot water once more

  

  Australian swimmers Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk may have landed themselves in hot water yet again, after posting photos online before their Olympic social media ban had ended.

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• Australian Olympic Team look to Rio after London languish

  

  As the introspection starts after a relatively poor Olympic display by Australia in London, John Coates argues that money and athletes were not the problem.

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• Australia cling to top 10 Olympic status in London

  

  Australia clung to a top 10 finish before its athletes celebrated the end of the London Olympics in a raucous closing ceremony.

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• Aussies fall short of Olympic top five

  

  Australian Olympic chef de mission Nick Green has defended our London 2012 Olympic performance and has denied suggestions a new culture is needed for Aussie sport.

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• Australian sailors inspire mini Olympic medal rush at London 2012

  

  Inspired by their sailors, Australia’s Olympians are flying home with a wet sail after a sluggish start to the London Games.

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• Oarsome K4some kayak gold lifts Australia at London 2012

  

  As a quartet of surf lifesavers resuscitated Australia’s Olympic reputation with a much needed gold medal, the men’s hockey team’s campaign again ran out of breath in the semi-finals.

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• Australia’s Kate Lundy to row Eton Olympic course after GB goldrush

  

  LET’S hope Australian Sports Minister Kate Lundy’s rowing technique is well honed. She will be rowing the length of the Eton rowing course when Australia finish behind Great Britain on the Olympic medal tally after a bet she had with British sports minister Hugh Robertson.

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• Sally Pearson and Anna Meares double Australia’s Olympic golds

  

  Steely Sally Pearson and iron-willed Anna Meares turned mettle into precious gold on Australia’s most successful day of the London Olympics on Tuesday.

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• Aussie Olympic revival may take eight years: Green

  

  Australia could take eight years to revive its flagging Olympic fortunes, team boss Nick Green says.

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• Sailors come to Australia’s Olympic rescue

  

  Waterborne gold medals are the traditional mainstay of Australia’s Olympic effort, but this time it’s the sailors not swimmers who are pulling off a rescue act. Tom Slingsby won sailing’s Laser class on Monday and world champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen are mathematically assured of winning the 49er skiff gold on Wednesday.

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• Tom Slingsby wins gold, Australia’s London 2012 hopes turn

  

  Sailing superstar Tom Slingsby won Olympic gold on the breezy waters off Weymouth as the winds of hope began to blow through the Australian camp in London.

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• Is Australia’s London 2012 resurgence a Kiwi-inspired comeback?

  

  Sally Pearson scorches over the hurdles, the Boomers net a last-second winner, Michael Diamond shoots another perfect score, the sailors set themselves up for gold, the Stingers snatch an extra-time water polo win … what’s causing Australia’s sudden change of Olympic fortunes? Could it be New Zealand?

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• Silver! Silver! Silver! for Australia at London 2012

  

  No-one remembers who comes second. If that old sporting maxim is correct, the 2012 Olympians will soon become the forgotten men and women of Australian sport, consigned to the dusty register of also-rans.

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• What an amazing opening week of London 2012

  

  CHARLIE INGLEFIELD gives us some of the highlights of the Olympics so far at the Games of London 2012…

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• Liz Cambage makes Olympic history with first women’s dunk

  

  Australian women’s basketballer Liz Cambage has made Olympic history, as she became the first ever woman to dunk in Olympics basketball.

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