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The all-new Australian Spark will this week step onto the world stage to launch its seven-day all-Aussie assault on the 13th IAAF world junior championships in Moncton, Canada, where the world's top emerging track and field athletes will vie for 132 medals across 44 events.

WAIS javelin thrower Kim Mickle knows just about better than anyone the ups and downs of being an elite athlete. The 2010 national champion caught up with WAIS reporter Rory Campbell to describe her journey and the up coming Commonwealth Games.

World champion WAIS pole vaulter Steve Hooker and Dani Samuels will tomorrow night lead a three-pronged Aussie attack in Round 9 of the IAAF Diamond League series, the two world title-holders to be joined on the Paris leg of the 14-meet tour by comeback king Jarrod Bannister.

The Australian Sailing Team's Skud 18 crew of Daniel Fitzgibbon and WAIS IASP athlete Rachel Cox has won the Bronze >

Four Western Australian Institute of Sport netball scholarship holders have this week been included in the national Australian Diamonds squad, with Fever stars Caitlin Bassett, Susan Fuhrmann and Madison Browne joined by Adelaide based scholarship holder Kate Beveridge.

On the 3rd of October, the Australian Commonwealth Games Team will march in the 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, the >

Third generation Kookaburras player and AIS-WAIS athlete Trent Mitton will be one of several players given an opportunity to prove themselves at the international level when Australia competes in the 2010 Champions Trophy later this month.

WAIS athlete and national pole vault champion Liz Parnov reveals what training with the Olympic Champion, Steve Hooker, is like.

The Australian Sailing Development Squad crew of Steven Thomas and Nick Brownie has finished an impressive 10th at the 2010 49er European Championship in Poland.

Australia's four Paralympic crews have all had positive results on a shortened day three of the 2010 ISDF World Championships >