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NRLW 2024 Season preview: Who can stop the Knights?
A historic three-game State of Origin series was the perfect teaser for the upcoming National Women's Rugby League Premiership which is now just three sleeps away.
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MATILDAS PARIS PREP
Mary Fowler ready to be the Matildas' headline act
Mary Fowler knows it's her time to step up. And more importantly, the 21-year-old sensation believes she can.
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Matildas looking at litany of injury concerns pre-Paris
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WALLAROOS PROBLEMS
Time to blow up Super W for the sake of the Wallaroos
Sunday's humiliating 62-0 loss to the Black Ferns showed Rugby Australia must blow up Super W and start again for the sake of the Wallaroos.
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AUSTRALIA
Football
Matildas' Olympics prep wraps up with a high dose of caution
With a swathe of players unavailable and the match consigned to "B" status, the Matildas' final pre-Olympic hit out -- a 2-1 loss to Canada -- was a strange one. So was it beneficial?
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BLACK FERNS TROUNCE WALLAROOS
Wallaroos suffer biggest home defeat to New Zealand
Black Ferns winger Katelyn Vahaakolo has bagged a quartet of tries to help the New Zealanders to their biggest win over the Wallaroos on Australian soil, humbling their trans-Tasman rivals 62-0 in Ballymore.
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SUPER NETBALL
Thunderbirds survive Lightning strike to finish on top
The Adelaide Thunderbirds will not need to leave South Australia again this season after securing top spot on the Super Netball ladder with a gripping 64-62 win over Sunshine Coast Lightning.
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Swifts win dramatic derby, hand Giants wooden spoon
Little-known Uneeq Palavi's last-ditch goal has delivered the NSW Swifts a heart-stopping 72-71 Super Netball victory over the Giants, who have been consigned to their first-ever wooden spoon.
WOMEN'S OLYMPIC BASKETBALL
Ally Wilson's journey from falling out of love with basketball to 3x3 Olympian
It was mid-2021 and Ally Wilson was on the verge of quitting basketball, now she is a key member of Australia's Gangurrus heading for the Paris Olympic Games.
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OPALS SQUAD
Lauren Jackson's hardest week ends with Opals Olympic history
Widely regarded as the greatest basketballer Australia has ever produced, Lauren Jackson left her resumé at the door and embraced a different role entering Opals training camp on the way to selection for her fifth Olympics.
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On for young and old: Opals Olympic squad reaction
Isobel Borlase was born 15 days after Lauren Jackson claimed a silver medal with the Opals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Twenty years later, the youngest and oldest member of the Opals Olympics squad will look to guide the Aussies onto the podium in Paris.
OPALS VS. CHINA
OLYMPIC EXHIBITION
Opals, Jackson complete China rout in Olympics warm-up
Australian basketball great Lauren Jackson has ticked another box in her preparation for a fifth Olympics as Amy Atwell made a last-ditch bid for a ticket to Paris in the Opals' 91-63 thrashing of China.
OPALS VS. CHINA
Opals, Jackson brush off China in Olympics warm-up
Australian basketball great Lauren Jackson has taken another step towards a fifth Olympics as Alice Kunek and Isobel Borlase pressed claims for Paris tickets in the Opals' 94-66 friendly win over China.
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