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WAIS sailors competing in international youth events have won world titles in the Netherlands and Ireland over the weekend.

Four Western Australian athletes have today been named on the 44-strong Australian Track and Field squad for the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.

Diving sees athletes compete individually or in tandem, from springboard or platform attempting to execute intricate acrobatics mid-air, before entering the pool in vertical form with as minimal splash as possible.

Western Australian swimmers Jeremy McClure and Guy Harrison-Murray have today been officially selected onto the Australian Paralympic Team to compete at the 2016 Rio Games.

Don't be fooled by the smiles of Australia's synchronised swimming team. It's all part of the professional show.

From tales of Robin Hood to ill-fated backyard attempts to imitate William Tell, most of us have some level of under-graduate knowledge of archery's practice.

Athletics is widely considered the cream of Olympic sport. From 100m sprints in less than 10 seconds, to marathons ranging 42.2km, you are sure to find something that takes your fancy amongst the weird and wonderful world of track and field that makes up 47 events over nine days.

Few events represent the new age of Olympic sport better than the madcap intensity of BMX.

Basketball is usually one of the hot ticket items at each Olympic Games and in Rio expect this to be no different. As one of the few mainstream professional sports included within the Olympic roster, both men's and women's competitions tend to attract a star assortment of athlete talent.

Seventeen years ago in Bunbury WA, an eight-year-old girl grabbed an old ice cream lid, drew on her own number with a black sharpie and attached it to her BMX bike.