Organisers of Victoria 2026 have launched their quest for a team to produce "show-stopping" Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the next Commonwealth Games.

For those in sport who believe in such things, yesterday’s fourth-round defeat for sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime at the Australian Open was not a random result but down to a jinx.

On Saturday (May 21), Birmingham’s newly-reconstructed Alexander Stadium, imminent centrepiece of this summer's Commonwealth Games, has its grand opening.

Athletics Australia has appointed London 2012 Olympic 100 metres hurdles champion Sally Pearson as a technical athlete consultant.

By the eighth day of the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, the joke about the programme “hoodoo” had become serious as a sequence of star turns featured on the front cover had failed to deliver.

Reigning 100 metres hurdles champion Sally Pearson has vowed to "influence and help advance" the future of her sport as she confirmed she will join the board of Athletics Australia.

Gold Coast 2018 poster girl Sally Pearson vowed to return to her best in time for Olympic glory at Tokyo 2020 as she confirmed her withdrawal today from the Australian Commonwealth Games team through injury.

Host nation Australia have named Sally Pearson and Kurt Fearnley as the co-captains of their athletics team for next month's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.

Jarrod Bannister, Australia's 2010 Commonwealth javelin champion, has died suddenly aged 33.

A total of 111 Australian competitors will represent the country in athletics at their home Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, it has been announced.

Sally Pearson and Cedric Dubler have become the first athletes to test the Gold Coast 2018 athletics track at the Carrara Stadium prior to the Commonwealth Games.

The year appears to be concluding in fitting fashion, with an ongoing war of words over Russian participation at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Sally Pearson has claimed she is not worried by the expectation on her at a home Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

Gold Coast 2018 have revealed the list of around 3,800 people who will carry the Queen's Baton during its 100-day journey across the country in the build-up to the Commonwealth Games in April.

Seven of Australia's leading sports personalities have been shortlisted for one of the country's premier awards - "The Don".