Jack Snape
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Sport reporter at Guardian Australia
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Jack Snape
Guardian Australia
9 days ago
‘It just went boom’: NZ model shows others how to capitalise on sports betting surge
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‘It just went boom’: NZ model shows others how to capitalise on sports betting surge
A ‘virtually unheard of’ legislative quirk has opened up huge revenue streams for sports facing financial difficulties – Australia is among other countries taking note The first payment was a surprise, given it was almost double the entire annual budget of Table Tennis New Zealand. The next year, however, the money kept coming. “Over the past 18 months [Table Tennis New Zealand] has had to adapt to a set of challenges that is virtually unheard of, not just to table tennis in NZ, but amongst all but the largest sporting organisations,” its annual report said. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/19/new-zealand-model-capitalise-sports-betting-surge?CMP=aus_bsky
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A parliamentary committee is exposing the close relationship between major sporting codes and the supposedly independent regulator.
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9 days ago
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Joe Montemurro, ladies and gentlemen.
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11 days ago
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Eli Katoa recovery update via Justin Rodski, chief executive at the Melbourne Storm
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14 days ago
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19 days ago
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19 days ago
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Huge NRL grand final television audience. Beats AFL GF (4.18m) for the first time since 2015.
about 2 months ago
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Some background ahead of Four Corners tonight.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Online betting in Australia turns over $50bn a year. It’s largely regulated by six people in Darwin
The Northern Territory Racing Commission wields outsize power, but critics say its practices could be a lot more transparent
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/07/online-betting-in-australia-turns-over-50bn-a-year-its-largely-regulated-by-six-people-in-darwin
about 2 months ago
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#nrl
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about 2 months ago
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Women's 800m semis are on tonight from 9:40pm Syd/Mel/Bris, featuring Claudia Hollingsworth, Abbey Caldwell and Jess Hull.
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2 months ago
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Guardian Australia
2 months ago
Jess Hull galvanises Australia’s flourishing middle distance running stock | Jack Snape
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Jess Hull galvanises Australia’s flourishing middle distance running stock | Jack Snape
With three women, including the 1500m bronze medallist, into the 800m semis at the world championships, Australia’s quality is evident Expectations around Australia’s women’s 800m runners were already high when Claudia Hollingsworth broke the national record last month in Poland. Remarkably, in the same race, her compatriot Abbey Caldwell also finished under the old mark, crossing the line just behind the 20-year-old. Then the team for the World Athletics Championships was announced, and alongside that pairing was another name, Paris 1500m silver medallist Jess Hull. Australia’s track queen had decided to attempt the middle-distance double in Tokyo on the urging of her father and coach Simon, a former national level 800m runner. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/19/jess-hull-australian-runners-world-athletics-championships-2025?CMP=aus_bsky
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Here he is.
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2 months ago
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Gout v Tebogo let's go
2 months ago
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Jack Snape
Guardian Australia
3 months ago
‘Brutally honest’: how Bailey Smith’s openness propelled Geelong to AFL finals | Jack Snape
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‘Brutally honest’: how Bailey Smith’s openness propelled Geelong to AFL finals | Jack Snape
Ahead of Friday’s clash with Brisbane, those who know him best say the Cats midfielder’s path through some dark times shows how far he has come Made-for-TV sports award presentations typically offer as much surprise as the sun at sunrise, so when Bailey Smith revealed at the All-Australian announcement last week he spent four weeks in a psychiatric ward last year, the shock reverberated around the AFL. Every aspect of Smith’s life, from his social media presence, to his relationships, the escapades out at night, and sometimes even his football, is the subject of one of Australia’s most insatiable creatures: Melbourne’s footy media. Ahead of finals sign up for our free weekly AFL newsletter Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/02/brutally-honest-how-bailey-smiths-openness-propelled-geelong-to-afl-finals?CMP=aus_bsky
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Jack Snape
Guardian Australia
3 months ago
Craig Bellamy’s 600-game party goes up in flames as Roosters torch Storm
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Craig Bellamy’s 600-game party goes up in flames as Roosters torch Storm
Veteran coach forced to endure worst half in club’s history as Roosters run up 40 points in AAMI Park embarrassment Friday was supposed to be a celebration of one of rugby league’s greatest coaches. But following the Roosters’ 40-10 defeat of the Storm, Craig Bellamy was not amused. After watching the worst half in Melbourne’s history, during which his team completed just five sets after half-time, giving up a 10-point lead and conceding 40, he was better described as enraged. Once known as rugby league’s human explosive, Bellamy said at his press conference this week that he had mellowed. But watching him on the television cameras pace furiously around an empty dressing room after full-time, it was the Bellamy of old. Ahead of AFL finals sign up for our free weekly newsletter Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2025/aug/29/craig-bellamys-600-game-party-goes-up-in-flames-as-roosters-torch-storm?CMP=aus_bsky
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Guardian Australia
3 months ago
Inside Chloe Molloy’s injury rehab and return to AFLW – picture essay
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Inside Chloe Molloy’s injury rehab and return to AFLW – picture essay
The Sydney Swans star says ‘nothing prepares you’ for a torn ACL. She speaks about the challenges of her gruelling recovery – and what she learned along the way “My knee ruled my whole world,” the Sydney Swans forward Chloe Molloy says, reflecting on her past year. As one of the AFLW’s leading players, she had been primed to propel the Swans towards the finals in 2024. But in training before the second round, she felt pain in her right knee. Molloy Runs sprints at Tramway Oval on 13 June Ahead of AFL finals sign up for our free weekly newsletter Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/30/inside-chloe-molloys-injury-rehab-and-return-to-aflw-picture-essay?CMP=aus_bsky
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Compelling portrait of Oscar Piastri.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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‘A lot of emotions are not that helpful’: Oscar Piastri on his F1 world title dream
The championship leader reveals to Giles Richards his secret to being ‘calm yet intense’, and why he and his McLaren teammate won’t fall out in their race for the title
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/29/a-lot-of-emotions-are-not-that-helpful-oscar-piastri-on-his-f1-world-title-dream
3 months ago
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Sprinter Lachlan Kennedy out of the World Championships in Tokyo next month.
3 months ago
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Very strong TV audience for the English Premier League last night on Channel Nine. See more background here:
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
3 months ago
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Ash Moloney. Goal of the year?
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3 months ago
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Nestory Irankunda. First goal for Watford.
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3 months ago
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Update to this fast-moving story close to 4pm: Western United has secured an adjournment in the winding up process in Federal Court until 28 August. In football terms, we're well into injury time.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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A-League club Western United close to collapse after licence withdrawn
Melbourne-based club says it plans to appeal against decision after independent board found it failed to meet licensing requirements
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/aug/08/a-league-club-western-united-licence-withdrawn-under-football-australia-regulations
4 months ago
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Cut-out deluxe from Jesse Southwell. Blues in front just before half-time.
#WSOO
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6 months ago
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The greatest disallowed try in rugby league history?
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6 months ago
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Very unlucky for Queensland. Disallowed.
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6 months ago
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Jack Snape
Jonathan Liew
6 months ago
that's when good neighbours become good friends
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Now he's quoting Paul Keating to the European football media
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6 months ago
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Perth NRL team confirmed
#nrl
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7 months ago
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Looks like 20k+ for start of Women's Origin. Officials hopeful for crowd of 30k.
#wsoo
7 months ago
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No better story in Australian sport right now.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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‘Your social life will be non-existent’: Gout Gout coach Di Sheppard on guiding the sprint sensation | Jack Snape
The Australian athletics outsider has overcome adversity and backed her own methods to find success as a mentor to a stable of rising stars
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/01/gout-gout-australia-athletics-coach-di-sheppard-guiding-sprint-sensation
7 months ago
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The impact of Gout Gout. Channel 7's Stawell Gift audience: 2024 - 228,000 (9,000 streaming) 2025 - 567,000 (48,000 streaming) Via VOZ
7 months ago
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Jack Snape
Nick Ames
7 months ago
An imitation of Ukraine's Zorya Luhansk has just started up in the Russian pyramid. It's not the first example of teams from sovereign Ukrainian territory appearing in Russia, and may not be the last. Football is being used to normalise violent denial of the past.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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How a rip-off of Ukraine’s Zorya Luhansk are climbing Russia’s pyramid
In war-torn occupied territories, fake teams are being deployed as a tool to normalise a violent denial of the past
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/20/how-a-rip-off-of-ukraines-zorya-luhansk-are-climbing-russias-pyramid
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Vince Rugari
7 months ago
A ‘noble death’ seems inevitable for Postecoglou at Tottenham
www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...
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A ‘noble death’ seems inevitable for Postecoglou at Tottenham
It speaks to the dark, oppressive cloud of negativity that has settled over Spurs that most people seem to have totally discounted any possibility that they could still win a European trophy.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/a-noble-death-seems-inevitable-for-postecoglou-at-tottenham-20250416-p5ls4m.html
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"Percentage wise it's one of the fastest growing sports in the country." A beautiful story about a new real tennis court in Sydney - the 50th in the world - and the people who play on it.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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Handmade balls and no two courts the same: Tudor-era ‘real tennis’ is making a racket in Sydney
With cumbersome equipment and a labyrinthine scoring system, real tennis takes a long time to master – but fans say the results feel ‘phenomenal’
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/16/real-tennis-racket-sport-cheltenham-sydney-club
8 months ago
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Lachie Kennedy just put on his singlet at the warm up track. Looks like we are go for Gout vs Kennedy II.
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8 months ago
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Huge excitement around Gout Gout in the 200m at the national championships in Perth today. A few times to watch in preparation... First, the list of top 10 times by an under 18. Gout has the rest of the year to chip away at Erriyon Knighton's impressive set of runs.
8 months ago
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Hobart Stadium set for d-day in Tasmanian parliament next month.
8 months ago
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17-year/old Gout Gout runs 9.99s in the 100m in Perth, but with an illegal tailwind of 3.5m/s. Asked whether it felt special, he said no. "Sub-10 was inevitable."
8 months ago
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Lachie Kennedy will give Gout Gout a 75cm head start at the Stawell Gift in a couple of weeks for the 120m grass classic. Bree Rizzo (nee Masters) and Chloe Mannix-power are off scratch in the women's.
8 months ago
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Positive for NRL. From Nine today: "Our NRL coverage has also seen impressive year-on-year growth (up 10.4% year-on-year), with more fans tuning in across broadcast (up 7.2%) and BVOD (up 34.1%) to watch the game’s biggest stars in action. It’s the strongest start to the NRL season in VOZ history."
8 months ago
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POV: When an unidentified number calls.
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8 months ago
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Sorry that Lim got injured here, but this own goal was very funny.
#matildas
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8 months ago
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Huge turnout of 28,019 in Newcastle for the Matildas vs. South Korea. Breaks the previous record of 20,495 set against the USA in 2021.
#matildas
8 months ago
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Nathan Cleary sighting.
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8 months ago
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Here's the race between Lachie Kennedy and Gout Gout from a bit over a year ago. Gout said tonight: "He really helped me build up my momentum and build my top speed to get into that form and get into that straight. So it's not new rivalry, but it's a rivalry I appreciate."
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8 months ago
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First session of the world indoor athletics championships is on SBS today, including 60m heats. Lachie Kennedy on the world-leading 6.43s he ran in January: “I’m just excited to be able to back it up and to show them that it weren’t no fluke. Like, I can do this.”
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
8 months ago
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Eddie McGuire on Tasmanian opposition to Hobart stadium: "Apart from football, their secondary sport is protesting."
9 months ago
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Socceroos great Tim Cahill on the impact of sovereign wealth in sport, speaking at SportNXT. He works at Qatar's Inspire Academy.
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9 months ago
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New Orleans Pelicans' executive VP of basketball ops, David Griffin, on trading Dyson Daniels: "It was the right thing to do at the right time for us at that moment, it had absolutely nothing to do with our belief in Dyson."
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9 months ago
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Here's the lead up to that Tallyn Da Silva penalty.
#nrl
9 months ago
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