by Victorian Institute of Sport | Jan 28, 2024 | All
Mack Hortons recent retirement from swimming amounts to the last stroke of a truly golden career. As a Victorian Institute of Sport athlete for nine years, during which he won Olympic gold in the 400m at Rio in 2016, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, a world...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Jan 23, 2024 | All
The VIS is based in its own world class facility at Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park which provides a state-of-the-art training environment for athletes, including a large training gym, pool and recovery facilities, sport science laboratories, treatment rooms and...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Jan 20, 2024 | All
By Thomas Oliphant Behind the moments of elegance shown by rhythmic gymnasts in competition, is arduous training, fatigue and injuries. The juxtaposition between the two aspects of the sport is more than most would know. Hidden, to an extent, by athletic grace....
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Jan 19, 2024 | All
Life can be lonely in a combat sport. It is always one fighter against another. One winner. One loser. Nowhere to hide. But Taekwondo brothers Tom and Will Afonczenko got as close as anyone has to sharing with someone else the experience of stepping on to a mat...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Jan 18, 2024 | All
Jessica Gallagher is one of the most remarkable athletes to have ever pulled on a Victorian Institute of Sport singlet or, for that matter, a green and gold one. Some of her sporting entries can never be erased. As an alpine skier Gallagher was the first Australian...
by Stephen Rielly | Jan 12, 2024 | All
The tussle for table tennis supremacy is surprisingly shifting away from the dominant Asian countries, as Europe brings a new wave of innovative ideas to the sport. Germany is quickly becoming a new home for professional table tennis players from all over the world....
