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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.

Six years on from getting her first taste of Olympic competition Alice Ingley is set for her shot on the biggest stage of all in Rio.

Western Australian David Watts will take to the water of Rio in August to represent Australia in the Men's Double Sculls alongside Chris Morgan.

Western Australian triathletes Ryan Bailie and Jaz Hedgeland have earned selection for the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final in Cozumel, Mexico in late August.

WAIS cyclist Jade Haines has won the women's Maddison exhibition race that closed out competition at the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Switzerland over the weekend.

Two WAIS cyclists took to the boards on the opening day of the UCI Junior Track World Championships in Aigle, Switzerland.

Both WAIS pole vaulters competing at the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland have missed qualifying for the women's final after no-heighting on the opening day of competition.

WA equestrian rider Sonja Johnson has helped Australia to an historic victory at a prestigious event in Germany this week.