Matthew Mitcham News

As part of a series of interviews with the year's leading lights, Tom Daley tells Nick Harris about school bullies, his embarrassing father, and the dive that made him Britain's youngest world champion in an Olympic sport 'I just didn't know what do - whether to be sick, laugh or cry,' says Tom Daley about the moment when he won the 10m gold medal ...

Great dive ... Kahlia Warner continues to make a splash in diving circles and will head to Sydney next month to compete in the Australian Open Diving Championships.

Olympic diver and two-time Advocate cover boy Matthew Mitcham, pop star Sia, and MTV personality Ruby Rose have topped the list of the 25 most influential gay and lesbian Australians, announced on Wednesday.

Photos of Matthew Mitcham's sleek diver's body have drawn international eyeballs since the gay athlete nabbed Olympic gold in platform diving at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

AUSTRALIAN is an ugly term. It is usually employed, in a pejorative sense, by those whose idea of what it is to be Australian coincides exactly with their own values, beliefs or even dress sense.

In the wake of headlines announcing the public coming out of a hockey star's son, the dialogue about gay sports pros has opened up once again.

Is a brilliant exponent of the double bass or cello less worthy than a talented guitarist or pianist, based on the popularity of the instrument? In essence, that's a theme of the Crawford report into Australian sport .

'In your words, I am pissed off': John Coates says the Crawford Report dishonours Australia's Olympic heroes.

THE judges have narrowed down the field, but it will soon be up to readers to decide which athlete walks away with the $50,000 The Age Sports Performer of the Year Award, presented by Colonial First State.

BEIJING Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham bounced into the spotlight - literally - when he outpointed Stephanie Rice to win The Age Sports Performer of the Year Award, presented by Colonial First State, last year.

Inspirational effort: Hooker defied the pain of injury to win the world title. Steve Hooker has been recognised for his remarkable effort in defying a serious leg injury to claim the world pole vault title by becoming the first sportsperson to win the Don Award for the second time.

Other Sports Remarkable effort ... Hooker wins second Don Award. AP Pole Vaulter Steve Hooker wins Don Award for the second time Steve Hooker has been recognised for his remarkable effort in defying a serious thigh injury to claim the world pole vault title by becoming the first sportsperson to win the Don Award for the second time.

A fter his gold-medal swim in the 1992 Summer Games, Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury was in the mood to celebrate.

Being gay was no obstacle to Brian Sims, former captain of Bloomsburg U's football team The College Football Preview Issue of ESPN the Magazine features a survey of college players that asks them their opinions and views on a number of topics--including whether or not they happen to know any gay fellow team members.

London: While British diver Tom Daley is already something of a celebrity, neither he nor his coach expected him to be world 10-metre platform champion at the age of 15.

Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi still hasn't received an appropriate trade offer for Roy Halladay , and has set a July 28 deadline to complete a deal for the Toronto ace.

The world champion is a special talent who can achieve much more, but his development needs to be handled carefully, says Craig Lord After Tom Daley's last dive, Matthew Mitcham, the Olympic champion, and Bo Qui, the world junior champion, could both have overtaken his score, but failed.

China's Huo Liang and Lin Yue have dominated the preliminaries of men's 10-meter synchronized diving at the world championships.

A lethargic Matthew Mitcham has struggled to a ninth place finish in the final of the men's 3m springboard at the FINA world championships on Thursday.

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