Winter Sports

Australian homes are notoriously cold in winter — draughty, with poor insulation, thin glass and inadequate heating. But there's a growing movement of people retrofitting their homes to make them cheaper to run and more comfortable year-round, while also reducing emissions. 

Away from the sunburnt beaches, hot dusty gums, and red deserts, news for Australia's ski fields hasn't been good for years. But new research shows while the snow season is getting shorter, there's hope to turn things around.

The ruling by the US Center for SafeSport bans Kerry for life from any events or activities controlled by the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

Jakara Anthony has finished one of the most dominant seasons in winter sport history, and is Australia's most dominant athlete competing on the world stage.

A $6 million renovation of a neglected workers' village in the Victorian Alps will provide much-needed housing for mountain-based staff during this year's ski season.

Australian teen snowboarder Valentino Guseli underlines his phenomenal talent with another World Cup crystal globe as the season's overall park and pipe champion.

Bree Walker becomes the first Australian to win a bobsleigh World Cup gold medal following her victory in the women's monobob event in Lake Placid. 

Australian speed skater wins Australia's first world championship short track speed skating medal in 30 years at ISU Championships in Rotterdam.

A day after breaking the record for most wins in a single season, Jakara Anthony adds another gold with one event still to go.

Australia's Jakara Anthony claims her 12th win of the moguls season and breaks American Hannah Kearney's record in doing so. 

Australian Josie Baff was the beneficiary as two of her rivals crashed in the finale of the snowboard cross FIS World Cup event at Sierra Nevada, while Bree Walker and Kiara Reddingius claim best-ever bobsled World Championships result.

Beijing Winter Olympian Bree Walker comes within seven hundredths of a second of winning Australia's first ever bobsled world championships medal on the ice in Winterberg.

Female athletes are more likely to use some form of hormonal contraceptives, but they don't know much about them or the menstrual cycle and it is affecting their performance and health. 

Teen sensation Val Guseli won his first World Cup halfpipe event at the Calgary snow rodeo, Danielle Scott wins back-to-back aerials medals to remain in Crystal Globe contention.

Jakara Anthony is Australia's most successful ever moguls skier, claiming her 19th World Cup victory at the Deer Valley World Cup event.

Kamila Valieva's ban for doping has led to the Court for Arbitration for Sport stripping Russia of its 2022 Winter Olympics gold for team figure-skating. So who gets the medal now?

Teenage skater Kamila Valieva was the star performer at the Beijing Olympics, just hours before her positive test for a banned heart medicine was revealed.

Jakara Anthony has won a tenth gold medal out of a possible 11 events in the 2024 FIS freestyle skiing season, becoming Australia's joint-most successful World Cup moguls skiier.

Australian two-time Olympic medallist Scotty James has continued his exceptional form by matching American legend Shaun White's X-Games halfpipe record.

Moguls champion Jakara Anthony claims her ninth World Cup win of the season to leave her one victory short of an Australian record.

The first Winter Olympics featured athletes in woolly jumpers and tweed jackets with heavy wooden skis strapped to their boots. How times have changed.

Scotty James and teenager Val Guseli have scored a stunning 1-2 at the prestigious Laax snowboard half pipe event in Switzerland, as Jakara Anthony secures her seventh gold of the moguls season.

She'd spent two years preparing – hoping to set a new world record for the longest polar run ever completed – but still, nothing could prepare her for the real thing.

Jakara Anthony claims her fifth World Cup freestyle skiing crown in 20 days in an incredible run of dominance from Australia's Olympic champion. 

Jakara Anthony's incredible start to the season continues, with her fourth World Cup win in five events on a successful day for Australia.