Australia's team bosses have refused to move staff or athletes into the Olympic Village in Rio after claiming the buildings are dangerous and uninhabitable.

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An Australian rower has been sent home from the Olympics after damaging two storefront windows outside London.

Sports governing bodies from Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in the cheap seats.

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Ireland’s first women’s Olympic bobsleigh competitors, Aoife Hoey and Claire Bergin, have been named as joint ‘Sportswoman of the Month’ for January.

OLYMPIC Council of Ireland chiefs were last night hopeful that the national bobsleigh team will be allowed compete at the Winter Games in Vancouver.

THE Irish women’s bobsleigh team could be sensationally stripped of their place at next week’s Winter Olympics following a legal challenge by Australian officials.

OLYMPIC chief Jacques Rogge says air pollution could lead to some events at the 2008 Beijing Games being postponed.

Jana Pittman, the 400 metre hurdles world champion, may have proven hasty in ruling herself out of the Olympics after an arthroscopy on her damaged knee today gave the Australian significant cause for hope.

Jana Pittman, the 400 metre hurdles world champion, today conceded she will not run at the Athens Olympics after damaging her right knee in a freak training accident on Friday.