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• 8 Apr, 2021
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AGE is just a number it seems, in this case 72. Welcome to the world of Des Salmon, who has been catching waves at Burleigh Heads for the past 20 ...

• 6 Apr, 2021
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ENGLISH Rugby Union officialdom has decided to impose its own limitations and strict conditions on transgender athletes playing their sport. Trans women taller than 170cm and weighing more than 90kg, ...

• 5 Apr, 2021
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LANDON Donovan, one of the United States most respected footballers, recently ordered his players to abandon a football match following a homophobic slur against one of his players. The San ...

• 31 Mar, 2021
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ENOUGH was enough for former France football international and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry. The highly respected individual recently made the decision to shut down all his social media platforms as ...

• 22 Feb, 2021
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A war of words has erupted between golfer Michelle Wie West and the former mayor of New York and lawyer for former president Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. The topic? Sexism. ...

• 11 Jan, 2021
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THERE was a demonstration recently of unity. Unity against violence, oppression and interference in the judicial process. But is sport and sporting arenas appropriate places for such demonstrations? Should athletes ...

• 7 Jan, 2021
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Former England Football International player Karen Carney was subjected to some extraordinary social media abuse recently. So much so, that Carney made the decision to delete her Twitter account after ...

• 2 Dec, 2020
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THERE was a boxing match completed recently. Between two aging warriors, whose best pugilistic days were clearly behind them. Both dinosaurs of a bygone era, virtually extinct. Yet these two ...

• 2 Dec, 2020
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THE recent passing of Diego Maradona at the age of 60, has been met globally with much sadness and reflection by the world of sport and the general public. A ...

• 19 Nov, 2020
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The mental health toll of hiding one’s homosexuality in sport came under scrutiny recently. Retired Wallabies and Super Rugby prop Daniel Palmer revealed the toll hiding his homosexuality from his ...