Athletes can spend four years preparing for an Olympic or Paralympic games. For those who don’t achieve their goals, the disappointment can be crushing.

So much is going right for soccer in Australia at the national level and in grassroots participation. But the A-League is struggling to convert its opportunities into wins.

While overt sexualisation of women in sports is now rarer, sports media needs a more diverse range of voices to help fight misogyny.

From what sports you can watch with an old aerial, to what apps you’ll see when you switch on a new smart TV – sports lovers can expect big changes ahead.

While Sam Kerr is entitled to the presumption of innocence as she prepares for her trial almost a year away, Football Australia’s challenges are more immediate.

We’re experiencing a great sporting and cultural moment. But the Women’s World Cup needs to be more than a four-week football festival.

The conference, being held in Brisbane, runs three days, with Albanese delivering his keynote address on Thursday morning

This semi-final is an Australia-England fixture with fewer of the national slights and burdens of history, hierarchy and gender.

Whatever happens in the quarter final against France, in many ways the Matildas have already won before they even set foot on the pitch.

The increasing commercialisation and globalisation of women’s football – coupled with poor pay – has created the conditions for match-fixing to become a major problem.