by Victorian Institute of Sport | Nov 3, 2023 | All
According to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), less than 10 per cent of the top 36 funded high-performance sports in this country are led by women. This stark lack of representation and the consequences for Australian sport should it remain is why the AIS...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Nov 1, 2023 | All
It is going to be a hectic and potentially decisive time for many of the Victorian Institute of Sports table tennis athletes over the next six weeks. Between the 2023 Oceania Para Championships in the Solomon Islands in late November and the Mixed World Team Cup...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Oct 28, 2023 | All
The news last week that squash will become an Olympic sport, one of five added to the Los Angeles 2028 programme, inevitably lead to speculation about whether it could inspire a return to the heady days of the 1970s and 1980s when it seemed that every suburb in the...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Oct 27, 2023 | All
The inaugural 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships finished in Glasgow last Sunday, seeing eleven days of competition, thirteen separate UCI World Championships and more than 200 rainbow jerseys on offer. The event brought together both Para and Able-bodied races with...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Oct 26, 2023 | All
Wheelchair basketball is the fastest growing sport for athletes with disability, according to Disability Sports Australia. It is played in 80 countries and has more than 100,000 players. When Chithic Machar attended a school holiday program for wheelchair basketball...
by Victorian Institute of Sport | Oct 25, 2023 | All
The Australian Olympic Committee has named two Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holders in the Australian Olympic Skateboarding Team for Tokyo, becoming the first Australian Olympic skaters as the sport makes its debut in Tokyo. Poppy Starr Olsen, Keegan...
