The Australian Olympic Committee believes sport in Queensland and Australia more broadly will be super-charged following Queensland successfully convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ...

At Beijing in 2008 the team of Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Linda MacKenzie won Australia’s first gold medal in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. Australia had qualified for the final ...

Saya Sakakibara started BMX racing at just four years old after watching her older brother Kai compete in events. Born on the Gold Coast, Saya and her family lived in Japan for the first few years of ...

Basketballer Michael Ah Matt and boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts became the first Indigenous Australians to call themselves Olympians when they competed at the Tokyo 1964 Games. In 1992 at ...

Rachael Gunn 'Raygun' got people all over the world talking like few can. Her performances in the face-to-face solo breaking battles at the Paris Olympics, while not enough to claim a win among 16 of ...

Malawi born swimmer Bronte Campbell is one of five siblings and took up competitive swimming when she moved to Australia in 2001. Bronte Campbell and older sister Cate were the first Australian ...

Leilani grew up as the only girl in a family of six on the west coast of the United States, in the Washington state city of Richland, not far from the Oregon border. Basketball ruled her early ...

You can help Australian athletes chase their Olympic dream with fully tax deductible donations. The Aspiring Australian Olympian Funding initiative has been developed to provide a new avenue of ...

The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay ...

Australia has competed in every single modern Olympic Games since the first Olympics held in Athens, in 1896, but Australia's first Olympic Flagbearer didn't make his debut until London 1908, ...

Cathy Freeman’s role in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games embedded her name forever in Olympic history. She lit the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium - after the torch had been handled by six Australian ...

The Australian Olympic Committee acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of all the lands on which we are located. We pay ...