UAE Nations Cup Preview
The first week of February will bring us equestrian’s 500,000Euro United Arab Emirates Nations Cup.
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Neville Will Take on Australia’s Best
Dual Olympic medallist David Neville of the USA will take on Australia’s best 400m athletes this year as the nation’s top one-lappers look towards Commonwealth Games glory.
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Italy's Home Preparations for 2010 World Champs
Italian men's coach Andrea Anastasi has said he is looking forward to "coming home" to Catania when the FIVB 2010 Men's World Championship start.
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Athlete in Focus - Jared Bidwell
If 22 year old Jared Bidwell competes at the 2012 London Olympics he will have conquered an almighty mountain.
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Hattrick But No Record for Gebrselassie in Dubai
Haile Gebrselassie won his third straight Dubai Marathon falling three minutes short of his own world record and as a result missed out on a bonus US$1m.
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Top 10 Images - December 2009
If a picture tells 1,000 words, then WCSN is about to review December 2009 in over 10,000 of them.
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Headline News
 Neville Will Take on Australia’s BestAthletics | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 By the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - In what is fast becoming the event of the 2010 Australian domestic season, dual Olympic medallist David Neville of the USA will take on Australia’s best 400m athletes this year as the nation’s top one-lappers look towards Commonwealth Games glory ... |
 UAE Nations Cup PreviewEquestrian | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 The first week of February will bring us equestrian’s United Arab Emirates Nations Cup. Eleven countries are sending teams to the five-star event which be held at the Ghantoot Polo Club in Abu Dhabi. Many of the world’s best riders have been attracted thanks largely to the lucrative prize money on offer ... |
 Ohuruogu Training in Sunny JamaicaAthletics | Monday, 25 January 2010 By the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - Great Britain’s reigning Olympic and Commonwealth 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu left the cold London winter earlier this week to sample the sunnier climate of Kingston, Jamaica, where she will spend the next three weeks training with the Racers Track Club. ... |
 Italy's Home Preparations for 2010 World ChampsVolleyball | Monday, 25 January 2010 By The International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) - Italian men's volleyball coach Andrea Anastasi has said he is looking forward to "coming home" to Catania when the FIVB 2010 Men's World Championship start in October. Catania will be a host city during the second round of the 2010 ... |
 Hattrick But No Record for Gebrselassie in DubaiMarathon | Friday, 22 January 2010 By Universal Sports - Haile Gebrselassie won his third straight Dubai Marathon falling three minutes short of his own world record and as a result missed out on a bonus US$1m. The 36-year-old Ethiopian champion finished the 42.2-kilometer (26.2-mile) race in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 9 seconds ahead of ... |
 FINA to Retest Drug Tests from Rome WorldsSwimming | Wednesday, 20 January 2010 By Universal Sports - Swimming’s governing body plans to retest doping samples from the world championships for evidence of blood doping.After a meeting in Bangkok, FINA said it would examine samples to check for the presence of “plasticizers”—tiny particles of plastic left over from blood ... |
 100 Days Until the Pacific Rim ChampionshipsGymnastics | Tuesday, 19 January 2010 By Gymnastics Australia - With 2010 well and truly underway, and January 19th marks the 100 days to go milestone of the 2010 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships. The countdown is on to the 2010 Pacific Rim Championships, and in 100 days’ time the powerhouses of world gymnastics will descend ... |
 National Squad Named and TrainingBadminton | Monday, 18 January 2010 Earlier in January Badminton Australia announced that they will be adopting a new tiered scholarship program for their National Squad selection process. Eleven of the country's best players were named in Tier 1 with another nine named to Tier 2.The Victorian pairing of Glenn Warfe (pictured left) and Ben Walklate ... |
 Diamonds Get a Kick Out of CampNetball | Sunday, 17 January 2010 By Netball Australia - The Australian Diamond recent five-day camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) was about more than just netball. To kick-start the year, the squad took part in IDQ training as part of the January ... |
Athletics Update
Neville Will Take on Australia’s BestAthletics | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 By the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - In what is fast becoming the event of the 2010 Australian domestic season, dual Olympic medallist David Neville of the USA will take on Australia’s best 400m athletes this year ... |
Ohuruogu Training in Sunny JamaicaAthletics | Monday, 25 January 2010 By the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - Great Britain’s reigning Olympic and Commonwealth 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu left the cold London winter earlier this week to sample the sunnier climate of Kingston, Jamaica, where she will spend ... |
Bolt Will Not Race NFL’s JohnsonAthletics | Thursday, 14 January 2010  By Universal Sports - During the fall, triple Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt said he had no intentions of playing professional football in the United States. Apparently he has no intention of testing his speed against the NFL's ... |
London CallingAthletics | Thursday, 7 January 2010  By Athletics Australia - Thirty-six of Australia’s most talented young athletes have been invited to join the Target 2012 squad for 2010 with their sights firmly focused on preparing for the London Olympics. Inclusive of athletes from the majority of ... |
Thai Student Sets Asian Games RecordAthletics | Monday, 14 December 2009  By Universal Sports - A Thai university student equaled the Asian Games record in women's high jump at the Southeast Asian Games Monday, but confessed she was so nervous during the event she had trouble breathing. Noengruthai Chaipech's victory extended ... |
McLellan Re-Injures BackAthletics | Friday, 11 December 2009  Australian hurdler Sally McLellan has reaggrevated the debilitating back injury that interrupted her world championships campaign earlier this year. She could now be forced to bypass the Australian domestic season ahead of the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games. The 23 year ... |
Montgomery Cheated to Beat GreeneAthletics | Saturday, 28 November 2009  By Universal Sports - Tim Montgomery (pictured) says he started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world. The former 100-meter world-record holder, who also said he ... |
IAAF Multi Event Winners CrownedAthletics | Thursday, 26 November 2009  By the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) - With the completion of the recent Asian Championships in Guangdong, China, the last event of the 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge has been completed, and the overall winners are Trey ... |
IAAF Athletes of the YearAthletics | Tuesday, 24 November 2009  By Universal Sports - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who became one of the world's most recognized athletes, and American women's 400 meters world champion Sanya Richards were named IAAF world athletes of the year. Bolt, who won the award for ... |
IAAF Agrees with Semenya Keeping World TitleAthletics | Friday, 20 November 2009  By Universal Sports - South Africa’s government, Caster Semenya’s lawyers and the IAAF have all agreed that the 18-year-old will retain her gold medal, title and prize money. The 800-meter world champion was found “innocent of any wrong” after ... |
Ramzi Stripped of Olympic Gold MedalAthletics | Thursday, 19 November 2009  By Universal Sports - Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain was forced to forfeit his Olympic gold medal in the men's 1500m from the 2008 Oympics as a result of his positive doping test. Cyclist Davide Rebellin was forced to return ... |
Ross Announces RetirementAthletics | Sunday, 15 November 2009  By Athletics Australia - Five-time national 100m champion and member of the Australian Flame Josh ‘The Boss’ Ross has announced his retirement from athletics, effective immediately. Bursting onto the track and field scene with his win in the Stawell Gift ... |
Hooker Named World Athlete of the Year FinalistAthletics | Thursday, 12 November 2009  By Athletics Australia - World and Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker has been named alongside Usain Bolt as one of the top five male athletes in world athletics according to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hooker ... |
Bolt Admits Years of DoubtAthletics | Sunday, 1 November 2009  By Universal Sports - Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes it will take a couple of years to convince some people he is breaking world records without doping. The 23-year-old Bolt broke his own marks in the 100 and ... |
McLellan Looks to New ChallengeAthletics | Saturday, 24 October 2009  By Athletics Australia - Best known for her success over the hurdles, Queensland sensation Sally McLellan is getting set to take on a whole new ball game this season as she continues her bid for Commonwealth Games glory. The ... |
Swimming Update
FINA to Retest Drug Tests from Rome WorldsSwimming | Wednesday, 20 January 2010 By Universal Sports - Swimming’s governing body plans to retest doping samples from the world championships for evidence of blood doping.After a meeting in Bangkok, FINA said it would examine samples to check for the presence of “plasticizers”—tiny particles ... |
Huegill Firing at Victorian ChampionshipsSwimming | Sunday, 17 January 2010 By Swimming Australia - After dominating the 50m butterfly in Australia for the last decade, Geoff Huegill (pictured) looks set to continue in that vein in 2010 after a strong victory at swimming's Victorian Open Championships in Melbourne. Swimming in ... |
US Wins Duel in the PoolSwimming | Sunday, 20 December 2009  By Universal Sports - Michael Phelps struggled in a knee-length suit, but the Americans who stuck with the soon-to-be-banned bodysuits Saturday ensured the Europeans were trounced by 107 points in the Duel in Pool at Manchester in England. In the ... |
Trickett RetiresSwimming | Sunday, 13 December 2009  By Universal Sports - Australian triple Olympic swim champion Libby Trickett announced her retirement from top competition at the age of 24. Trickett, who also won eight world championships, said she had been considering her future since the July world ... |
Callus Sets New Oz RecordSwimming | Thursday, 26 November 2009  By Swimming Australia - Triple Olympian Ashley Callus has broken the Australian record for the 50m freestyle for the first time in his career at the 2009 Speedo AIS International in Canberra this morning, taking 0.04 seconds off the long cou... |
Hardy Wins WC TitleSwimming | Monday, 23 November 2009  By Universal Sports - Judging by what's taken place the last five-plus weeks, it appears that Jessica Hardy is officially back. The Hardy of the 2005-07 era, the one who captured five world championships medals (gold, four silver), has returned ... |
Guehrer Breaks World Record in MoscowSwimming | Saturday, 7 November 2009  By Swimming Australia - Telstra Dolphin Marieke Guehrer continued her outstanding 2009 form setting a new world record for the 50m backstroke at the FINA Arena Swimming World Cup in Moscow with a time of 26.17 as well as ... |
Jones Ready to Go in MoscowSwimming | Friday, 6 November 2009  By Swimming Australia - Olympic gold medallist and short course world record holder Leisel Jones will return to international racing this weekend at the two-day FINA Arena World Cup meet in Moscow. Jones will contest the 50, 100m and 20m0m ... |
Alshammar Out of this WorldSwimming | Tuesday, 20 October 2009  By Swimming Australia - Swedish superfish Therese Alshammar put the entire swimming world on notice after obliterating two of the four world marks eclipsed at the first leg of the 2009 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup, held in Durban (RSA) ... |
Schipper Named Swimmer of the YearSwimming | Friday, 9 October 2009  By Swimming Australia - World Champion and world record holder Jessicah Schipper has won the 2009 Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at Parliament House in Canberra during an evening of high praise for the 22-year-old from Brisbane. The ... |
Jodie Henry RetiresSwimming | Wednesday, 30 September 2009  By Swimming Australia - At 25 years of age triple Olympic gold medallist from Athens, Jodie Henry, has officially announced her retirement from completive swimming. Henry, who last competed in 2008 before failing to trial for the Beijing Olympic Games ... |
Gorman’s Pay Day in San FranSwimming | Tuesday, 15 September 2009  By Swimming Australia - World Championship gold medallist Melissa Gorman has continued her outstanding form in 2009 winning one of the richest open water swims in the world, the US$10,000 Tiburon Mile in San Francisco, with fellow Rome silver ... |
New Records for Seebohm and CallusSwimming | Thursday, 3 September 2009  By Swimming Australia - World Championship bronze medallist Emily Seebohm set a new Commonwealth record for the 50m backstroke at the Queensland Short Course Championships at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, while triple Olympian Ashley Callus was on fire in ... |
Jones and D’Arcy Dolphins AgainSwimming | Wednesday, 19 August 2009  By Swimming Australia - Short course world record holder Leisel Jones (pictured) and long course National champion Nick D’Arcy have both been selected as part of a 20-strong Australian team to compete during this year’s 2009 FINA Arena World ... |
Katsoulis So Close to WRSwimming | Monday, 10 August 2009  By Swimming Australia - Sarah Katsoulis has come within a whisker, just 0.03 seconds, of a world record at the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships in Hobart setting the first of three Commonwealth records with a scintillating performance to ... |
Sailing Update
Spain’s Martinez and Fernandez Win 49er GoldSailing | Tuesday, 12 January 2010  By The International Sailing Federation - The Spanish team of Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez completed their dominance of this year's 49er Worlds held in the Bahamas by winning the Medal Race to secure their third World Championship gold ... |
Outteridge & Jensen Lead 49er WorldsSailing | Wednesday, 6 January 2010  Defending champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Australia set the early pace on day one of the 49er World Championship in the Bahamas. Words of a ‘three-peat’ were already muttered to Nathan Outteridge after the first days racing who humbly ... |
Medal Race Day at Sail MelbourneSailing | Saturday, 19 December 2009  By Sail Melbourne Media - The Sail Melbourne medal races have been run and won with the crews greeted with great sailing conditions for the final day of racing. After the unpredictable weather of the last few days Melbourne turned it ... |
Top Crews Continue Good Form in MelbourneSailing | Wednesday, 16 December 2009  By Sail Melbourne Media - What a difference a day makes. After the strong breeze and heavy seas of day one, today was a completely different picture at Sail Melbourne with light winds and very little swell dictating play. For the ... |
Racing Underway at Sail MelbourneSailing | Tuesday, 15 December 2009  By Sail Melbourne Media - Day one of racing at the 2009 Sail Melbourne regatta is complete with a strong breeze and big waves providing perfect racing conditions for the opening round of the 2009/2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup. 2008 Beijing ... |
Concluding Stages of Sail SydneySailing | Wednesday, 9 December 2009  By Di Pearson at Sail Sydney Media - The Sail Down Under tour events continued with the picturesque Sail Sydney event from the 5th to the 8th of December. As expected the racing featured many familiar, internationally renowned sailors ... |
Minoprio Wins Monsoon CupSailing | Sunday, 6 December 2009  The Monsoon Cup, the final event of the World Match Racing Tour, with MYR 1.57 millon (approxUS$454,000) prize money was sailed on the Pulau Duyong basin in Kuala Terengganu in Malaysia this week. Yesterday Adam Minoprio and his ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing crew ... |
Monsoon Cup Set to Conclude WMRTSailing | Wednesday, 2 December 2009  The world’s top sailors from the 12 teams competing in the Monsoon Cup have arrived at the Sultan Mahmud Airport in Seberang Takir, near Pulau Duyong. They will be competing in the ninth and final stage of the World Match ... |
Kivell & Ryan 470 Trifecta at Sail BrisbaneSailing | Saturday, 28 November 2009  By Yachting Australia - The Australian Sailing Development Squad’s Sam Kivell and Will Ryan were the standout performers on day three of Sail Brisbane, winning all three 470 races to jump into the lead after missing the first day ... |
Casey Leads Finn at Sail BrisbaneSailing | Saturday, 28 November 2009  By Yachting Australia - Day two of the 2009 Sail Brisbane took place in ideal sailing conditions resulting in some great racing with a number of class leaders consolidating their leads while there was also plenty of movements throughout ... |
Slingsby Leads Lasers at Sail BrisbaneSailing | Friday, 27 November 2009  By Craig Heydon of Yachting Australia - The 2009 Sail Brisbane regatta has gotten underway with a full day of racing for the record sized fleet. The Australian Sailing Team’s Tom Slingsby leads the way in the Laser ... |
Countdown to the 2010 ISAF World CupSailing | Friday, 20 November 2009  By Vikki Moloney at Yachting Australia - It’s only 4 weeks until the first leg of the 2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup gets underway at Sandringham. With early entries closing on December 1st, some world class names are already confirmed as Melbourne ... |
Grael and Tunnicliffe World Sailors of The YearSailing | Saturday, 14 November 2009  By The International Sailing Federation - Torben Grael and Anna Tunnicliffe (pictured with Rolex's Lionel Schurch) joined the sailing world's most prestigious list of winners last night as they were named the 2009 ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the ... |
Australia's Best Sailors for 2009Sailing | Monday, 12 October 2009  By Craig Heydon at Yachting Australia - Yachting Australia is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 Australian Yachting Awards with the winners to be announced at a gala event at Sandringham Yacht Club on Friday, 16 October, ... |
Outteridge Nominated for Sailor of the YearSailing | Thursday, 1 October 2009  Australia’s Nathan Outteridge has been nominated as one of only five men in line to win the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award for 2009. Earlier this year, Outteridge teamed up with Iain Jensen to commence a joint campaign ... |
