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Perrine wins her second medal for Australia at PyeongChang

Australian alpine skier Melissa Perrine has won her second medal at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics with bronze in the giant slalom vision-impaired class. Perrine was...

Melissa Perrine’s resilience formed over a lifetime

They had never seen her ski before the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, but Melissa Perrine's family are the least surprised of any by her medal-winning...

Mitch Gourley sees positives in Paralympic medal near miss

PyeongChang hasn't been a happy hunting ground for Mitch Gourley but he is starting to see some positives in his Winter Paralympics performances. Australian alpine...

Bronze for Australia’s Melissa Perrine at the Paralympics

A near-perfect Slalom by Melissa Perrine and sighted guide Christian Geiger handed the NSW Southern Highlands skier her first Paralympic medal at her third...

Gold for Australia and Simon Patmore in Paralympic boarder cross

Simon Patmore is the boy from Nundah, Queensland who has now become a permanent fixture in Australian Paralympic history, with his breakthrough gold medal...

Australian para skiers unable to turn around sour day

Australia's alpine skiers have failed to threaten the podium on a dismal day for the Winter Paralympics team in which it lost gold medal...

Joany Badenhorst out of the Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang

Joany Badenhorst was feeling the best she ever had on a snowboarding course before a "freak" crash left her with a horrible case of...

Five Aussie Winter Paralympians to watch

The PyeongChang Paralympic Games kicks off tonight March 9 until March 18. Who are Australia's big chances? These athletes are. MITCH GOURLEY Standing alpine skiing (downhill,...

Aussie Paralympians battle odds for gold

Australia's Winter Paralympians face the prospect of going two decades without a gold medal but they're taking history with a grain of salt leading...

Para-snowboarder Badenhorst to carry flag

Joany Badenhorst says her achievements are a rebuff to men and boys who had doubted her because of her gender. The Australian co-captain and star...

Aussie Paralympian Mitch Gourley laments PyeongChang dumbed down course

Australian Winter Paralympics co-captain Mitch Gourley has criticised PyeongChang organisers for going too far in reducing the difficulty of an alpine ski course from...

You can’t make this stuff up, the faux pas queen of...

If there was a medal for PyeongChang faux pas', guess who wins gold? Let's just say a 15 day diet of choco pies, seriously bad...

Australian winter sports has the cash but not the facilities

Cashed-up and ready to go, winter sports bosses have revealed their frustrations at an almost decade-long wait to have key facilities built in Australia. While...

Winter sports, does anyone care?

Peter Fitzsimons threw his red bandanna into the Winter Olympics hyperbole ring last week with an opinion piece designed to get folks that love...

A gallery of emotions – photo feels for Team Australia in...

As the Winter Olympics comes to an end we look back at all the emotion from the Australian team from broken knees to shattered...

Russians sing banned anthem after gold win

Russian ice hockey players have sung their national anthem after clinching the gold medal in overtime against Germany at the Winter Olympic Games, despite...

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