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Hull and Hoare in top form ahead of Olympics
Australian middle-distance stars Jessica Hull and Oliver Hoare stamped their credentials as Paris Olympics medal contenders on a record-breaking day at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet produced the standout performance of the meet, smashing the women’s 10,000m world record by nearly seven seconds, while reigning world champion Josh Kerr took down the great Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win a stacked Bowerman Mile.
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Olympic hopeful Jessica Hull smashes Australian 1500m record in OregonRead moreShareUpdated at 23.58 EDT46m ago23.14 EDTJoey Lynch
Magical Mariners take their place in A-League pantheon with back-to-back titles
The Central Coast Mariners weren’t supposed to stun Australian football, let alone their opponents, and pull a rabbit from their blue and yellow cap to keep this miraculous story going.
Melbourne Victory had done enough to beat them in Saturday evening’s A-League Men (ALM) grand final. A 50th-minute lead sourced through the unlikely figure of Jason Geria had given way to a rearguard action that held their opponents to just three shots across the 90 minutes, none of which were on target.
View image in fullscreenAlou Kuol of the Central Coast Mariners celebrates winning with fans during the A-League Men Grand Final at Industree Group Stadium, on May 25. Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Sure, the Mariners had thrown themselves forward with abandon and the visitors weren’t looking as effective after a series of late substitutions, but as regular time expired in Gosford, it needs to be stressed that Victory had done enough to secure a record-equalling fifth title. It would have been a championship earned, not stolen.
But then Ryan Edmondson helped spark and finish a move in the first minute of added time to equalise. Miguel Di Pizio put them ahead in the 97th minute. Then Edmondson put a bow on things in the 121st. And somehow, the Mariners had tapped a reservoir of magic and found a way to win. Again.
Read Joey Lynch’s dispatch from the A-League men’s final held in Gosford on Saturday night:
Magical Mariners take their place in A-League pantheon with back-to-back titles Read moreShareUpdated at 23.59 EDT1h ago22.48 EDTDaniel Hurst
Labor takes aim at Bandt’s refusal to back two-state solution
The Albanese government has taken aim at the Greens after the party’s leader, Adam Bandt, avoided expressing direct support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The assistant foreign minister, Tim Watts, said:
Despite all their slogans about the…
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