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Cycling Australia's High Performance Director Kevin Tabotta is firm of the belief that while there is no doubt AIS-WAIS athlete Luke Durbridge will be disappointed to have fallen out of contention for a spot in Australia's team pursuit squad for the UCI Track World Championships and London Olympic Games, better things are to come for the 20-year-old.

WAIS rowing athletes returned a medal glut from the recent Australian Rowing and Interstate Championships at Perth's Champion Lakes.

WAIS pole vaulter Alana Boyd has vaulted 4.55m to finish ninth in the women's final at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.

The Hockeyroos turned around their poor performance in the first test against World Number eight, Korea with a 5-0 drubbing in the second of four matches at Shenton Park in Perth.

Lauren Reynolds is a WAIS scholarship holder aiming to compete for Australia at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Before this however, she will take on the world's best at the BMX World Champions in England's "second city" Birmingham.

The current strength of Australian rowing was underlined today as WAIS rowing duo Ben Cureton and Todd Skipworth missed out on the highly competitive final of the men's pair at the 2012 Australian Rowing Championships at Champion Lakes Regatta Centre in Perth.

The Hockeyroos were defeated by World Number eight Korea 4-2 this evening in the opening match of their Four Match Series in Perth.

Western Australian Institute of Sport pairing Jesse Phillips and Stephen Bird took a giant step towards Olympic nomination when they won the Men's K2 200m final at the Oceania Championships in Penrith on Sunday.

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) is passing on advisories from international anti-doping organisations to Australian athletes competing or training >

WAIS pole vaulters Alana Boyd and Liz Parnov have become the latest WA athletes to earn Olympic nomination after meeting the selection criteria at the Olympic Selection Trials in Melbourne on the weekend.