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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced an investigation into allegations that Australian swimmers have been "doping" their breakfast with bananas and honey, following explosive claims made by Chinese sports officials. This comes on the heels of intense scrutiny and criticism from Australia regarding the Chinese swimming team's doping scandals. Chinese officials have alleged that...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Stradbroke Island's Ethan Yewing has bowed out the Olympic surfing quarter finals against fellow Aussie Jack Robinson, with priority, but no more waves left to help him bypass the Margaret River boy's second score of 7.33. Ewing come out of a barrel hot in a response wave that landed him an 8.33 and catapulted him into the lead. However, in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Olympic Spirit has well and truly made it's way into the living room of one Betoota Downs household this week, as local dad Ian Everitt (57) automatically updates his encyclopaedic knowledge of every single athlete that Australia has sent to Paris. After not missing one minute of the water-based first week of early morning sports, Ian has been...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The iconic rugby league journalist and the game's all-seeing eye, Buzz Rothfield, has today made a sensational claim about a mid-season transfer during an emergency daytime broadcast of NRL360 on Fox League. Buzz says that according to some inside knowledge that he overheard from a neighbouring table at the famous Grappa Italian restaurant in Sydney's inner-west, it can be...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Queensland, Tasmania and to a much, much less extent Victoria and NSW are currently carrying the nation towards eternal sporting glory, leaving passenger states such as South Australia and our prosperous West to drag us down. The pool has been the scene of fabled heroics from both Queenslanders and our Tasmanian cousins, showing the rest...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Betoota Heights woman Karen O'Donnell is hoping to catch the Rugby 7s tonight after getting up in the middle of this morning to watch the Matildas comfortably beat Zambia. With the Paris 2024 Olympics in full swing, the youngest record Karen in Queensland's sleep schedule has been thrown into complete disarray, but her dedication to...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT After months of making life hell for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics Planning committee, inner-Brisbane resident Jen Trifia (34) is starting to question if she's on the wrong side of history. This comes as Australia leads the gold medal tally in the first week of the Paris games. Jen says she now knows her vocal criticism of the plans to redevelop...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian NRL pundit Bryan Fletcher has never looked better, that's according to his colleagues at Fox League. "You can actually see the white parts of his eyeballs" says long-time cohost and personal confidante Nathan Hindmarsh (54). "And he's obviously a lot more regular. The running joke around this place is that Fletch usually takes the best part of an hour...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local mum, Mandy Beams has never once before mentioned that she was such an avid gymnastics fan. A discovery her teenage children made this afternoon while she sat on the couch in a weird, distracted mood and watched replays of every single event, from the horizontal bars, to the rope climbing, well into the evening. "It's weird" says teenage son,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Despite the awful time zone difference, it seems nothing could stop the Olympic Spirit from infecting one Betoota Heights family over the weekend. Like thousands of households around the country, the Huxley family are up at 4am every morning and glued to their TV, as Australia takes to the pool. But in the midst of all the coffee and excitement,...