Queensland filly Military Rose shot to the top of Golden Slipper betting immediately after lowering the colours of Sydney's best fillies in the Reisling Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

Teenager Katie Goldman has come from the clouds to emerge as a genuine 800 metres freestyle Commonwealth Games medal contender with a stunning 11-second personal best at the trials in Sydney.

Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has pulled out of the Milan-San Remo classic race because of acute gastroenteritis, his RadioShack team said.

Australia's Dale Begg-Smith joined French legend Edgar Grospiron as the greatest World Cup mogul skiing champion of all time after wrapping up his fourth season title.

Australian skier Marty Mayberry won a silver medal in the men's standing downhill skiing at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games.

Geoff Huegill is a shadow of the man he was two years ago, last night proving he has not lost the ability to represent his country in the pool.

Australian skier Bart Bunting has had a disappointing end to his comeback winter Paralympic Games, crashing out in the visually impaired men's downhill.

International Paralympic team officials will meet on Friday to consider adding snowboarding to the roster of competitions at the games.

Yolane Kukla has clearly taken her comparisons with Libby Trickett a little bit too much to heart.

The weather at Whistler has changed so frequently during the Vancouver Paralympics that it has created two countries on one hill.