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WAIS scholarship athlete Jai Hindley currently sits second overall after four stages of the An Post Ras in Ireland.

WAIS scholarship athlete Rhys Grant has sensationally qualified Australia's boat for the men's single scull at the Rio Olympic Games and virtually guaranteed that he fills that spot after finishing second in the event at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland overnight.

The final test in the series between Australia and Great Britain was held in front of a full capacity crowd of 5,000 at the Perth Hockey Stadium tonight, with Australia recording a 5 - 1 win in the last match the Kookaburras will play on home soil before Rio 2016.

The Australian Stingers have suffered an 11-5 defeat against rivals USA in their second of three practice matches in California.

Officially selected Australian Olympic athletes Daniel Bowker, Stephen Bird and Ferenc Szekszardi have had their first overseas hit out for 2016 as the build up to Rio intensifies.

Bunbury raised triathlete Ryan Bailie has today been confirmed as a member of Australia's six-strong triathlon squad to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

When a World and dual Commonwealth Games champion, plus Olympic silver and bronze medallist, says he's a perfectionist, you can take it on merit that it's not exaggeration. For WAIS diving coach Matthew Helm, the task now ahead of him, is devising a program that he hopes can achieve elite success for a stable of talented Western Australian athletes.

Almost every member of the Kookaburras Squad will be given the opportunity to prove themselves ahead of Olympic selection at the Narrogin and Perth test events against Great Britain which run from 21 - 24 May.

The Hockeyroos squads for the International Hockey Open in Darwin and for the Champions Trophy in London have been announced today.

A competition coined the "Regatta of Death" might on the face of it seem extreme, but for crews yet to qualify Olympic boats for Rio, the symbolism probably isn't lost.