Category: Sports & Games

The 2026 winter Olympics starts today, an event that has seen many changes through its history: here are 7 forgotten winter Olympic sports.

From its unexplained scoring, to its murky origins, to the ‘Tennis Court Oath’: here are the mysteries of tennis.

The Ashes is cricket’s most famous contest, played between England and Australia. Less well known is the birthplace of the Ashes: Sunbury.

Between the wars, Cocky Marr was the Carlton Football Club’s unofficial mascot: a crested cockatoo who loved the Blues, and despised bad umpiring.

The VFL/AFL has seen many changes in the last 120 years; here are the AFL teams that have changed their name.

In 1953, Geelong set an Australian football record that still stands today: the longest winning streak in VFL/AFL history.

Mark Edmonson is the last Australian man to win the Australian Open singles; he also set a tennis record that stands to this day.

Australia’s first women’s football matches included department store workers, fancy dress costumes, and a player from the north of England named Trixie.

The history of the AFL grand final involves challenge matches, bloodbaths, skipped years and a Geelong lawyer named Kenneth McIntyre.

Before live TV, Synthetic Test Cricket used telegraph cables and radio to bring the Ashes home to Australia.