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At the age of 15, Adelaide's Demi Bennett stepped into a wrestling ring for the first time. Twelve years later, she returns home as WWE Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley to try and retain the title in the biggest WWE event Australia has seen in years. 

The organisers of the proposed Enhanced Games claim they're championing science and raising the ceiling on athletic excellence. But it raises more questions than answers, writes David Mark.

Usher has worked with many stars throughout his career and has hinted at who he might share the Super Bowl LVIII half-time show stage with.

Fans are wondering whether the singer will make it to the Las Vegas game on Sunday after playing her last concert in Japan on Saturday. 

Three-time Olympian Jess Fox is regarded as the GOAT of canoe slalom, but she may not be the only Fox at this year's Olympics.

The Socceroos will meet South Korea in the Asian Cup quarterfinals after Jurgen Klinsmann's charges beat Saudi Arabia on penalties in the round of 16.

Kamila Valieva's ban for doping has led to the Court for Arbitration for Sport stripping Russia of its 2022 Winter Olympics gold for team figure-skating. So who gets the medal now?

This year was the grandest grand slam ever for the Australian Open but the Open won't bask in the afterglow of this year's tournament for long with multiple challenges ahead.

If he is not in his Ambulance Victoria uniform, Phil Bell is dressed as his favourite anime character and pulling four-wheel drives and boats along the streets of his country town, a gentle "circus freak" in pursuit of a big dream.

Issac McGair has had a rough few months of recovery after a serious accident in Adelaide's Murrayland in October last year.

It might be hard to imagine, but sheepdog trials were once so popular in Australia they were broadcast on TV each weekend. But if you're new to sheepdog trials, let's take a few steps back and revisit the basics with Muster Dog breeder Mick Hudson.

Four time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka is one of a trio of women players navigating new parenthood and elite tennis.

Grand slam-winning Ireland coach Andy Farrell, a 36-time Great Britain rugby league international, is named as coach of the British and Irish Lions for their 2025 tour of Australia.

The owner of the victorious Sydney to Hobart yacht thinks it's "rough as anything", despite pulling off a nailbiting finish in slow motion. So how did LawConnect do it?

The yacht has sensationally overtaken Andoo Comanche in the dying minutes of the race to clinch the line honours in the yacht race.

You may have missed the ceremonial cannon, but it's not too late to get up to speed with the sailing event of the year.

The Matildas wowed the nation, the Ashes kept us up all night, and Australia won the Cricket World Cup. Here's how the ABC Sport blogs captured the moments that mattered in 2023.

With no host in place for the 2026 Commonwealth Games and an increasingly bleak outlook of finding one after the Gold Coast withdrew its speculative bid to save it, we may have seen the last of the old Empire Games. But could it be kept alive for the athletes of tomorrow?

While he can only see a couple metres in front of him and needs glasses to mitigate light sensitivity, the 11-year-old won medals in several events at a school track and field championships this week. But his ultimate goal is Brisbane 2032.

Sam Le Feuvre loves to run. Now that passion is taking him from a Queensland cattle property all the way to France.

Shona Muckert relies on a wheelchair for many day-to-day activities but when it comes to competitive canoeing, her disability does not hold her back.

Meet the teenage breakdancer who will be representing Australia when the athletic dance makes its debut at the Paris Olympics in 2024.

Peter O'Neill is a man who has well and truly gone the distance, competing in the world's largest Olympic-distance triathlon every year since 1983.

The Brisbane Olympics are nine years away, but young athletes are already preparing for a chance to represent their country on the world stage.

Breakdancing will make its Olympic debut at the Paris games in 2024 and two of Australia's finest will be making the trip after securing qualification.