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Coco Gauff is first US tennis player to clinch Olympic spot, has busy plans for Paris

Coco Gauff is the first US tennis player to mathematically clinch a spot in the Olympic field, setting up for her Olympic debut in Paris.

Gauff has accumulated enough points so that she is guaranteed to be among the top four US women’s singles players at the end of the 12-month Olympic qualifying window, which runs through the end of the French Open in early June.

A nation can qualify no more than four singles players per gender. The US is expected to earn the full four spots for men and women. Players can also qualify separately in doubles.

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Deanna Stellato-Dudek reacts to becoming oldest woman to win a world figure skating title

When Deanna Stellato-Dudek reflects on what her teenaged self would think about winning a first world title at age 40, the Canadian pair skater can’t help but be honest.

“She would say, ‘Why did we stop?’” laughs Stellato-Dudek, who on Thursday night (21 March) became the oldest woman to win a figure skating world title in the sport’s history alongside partner Maxime Deschamps.

“I’m still skating 25 years later?!” Deanna says her 15-year-old self would admit.

But for 16 of those years Deanna stepped away from the sport. After a silver medal in singles at the World Junior Championships

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Brisbane won’t get a stadium to ‘rival the MCG’, so what will its Olympic legacy be?

What will the legacy be for Brisbane 2032 under the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) “new norm”?

The Queensland government has promised the Games will have a lasting impact for future generations.

But, in the past, Olympic hosts have left a legacy of debt.

It’s led the IOC to bring in a new norm that allows for smaller venues and discourages host cities from building stadiums just for the Games.

This week Queensland Premier Steven Miles vetoed a recommendation to build a new stadium, suggested by former Brisbane lord major Graham Quirk as a potential “rival” for the MCG.

A close-up of the Wally Lewis statue outside Lang Park, with the Suncorp Stadium sign in the background.

Lang Park

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2024 Paris Olympics | Australia’s $60K Olympic Track Bike

As we get closer to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris this summer, we’re getting more glimpses of the equipment the various cycling teams will be using. Most recently, the Australian track cycling team announced that they will be riding the Factor Hanzo track bike, currently available on the British brand’s website for $97,979 (Australian Dollars). That translates to right around $60,000 US dollars.

According to GCN“The bike has already been around for a couple of months, having officially been unveiled in Adelaide in January at the Tour Down Under on the same day that Factor and AusCycling announced

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