🌞 Aussies shine at Winter Olympics

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Milano-Cortina is now officially Australia’s most successful Winter Olympics appearance, with our athletes achieving three gold medals at a Winter Games for the first time.

It started with Cooper Woods, who won Australia’s first gold medal in the men’s moguls. He registered a score of 83.71 in the final run of the competition, drawing dead even with legendary Canadian moguls competitor Mikael Kingsbury, but took out the gold medal based on his superior ‘turns score’ of 48.4 to Kingsbury’s 47.7.

He said: “It’s something you dream of day in day out as a kid — through the hard days, through the good days. It’s an absolute journey.” This photo rocks.

It was only up from there, with Australian snowboarder Josie Baff winning gold shortly thereafter. The 23-year-old defeated Czech star Eva Adamczykova and reigning world champion Michela Moioli in the final race at Livigno Snow Park in Italy. Leaning into the Aussie spirit, Baff said Woods' win "sparked a little fire in me" and motivated her performance despite battling flu earlier in the week.

Then last night, Jakara Anthony secured gold in the inaugural women’s dual moguls event. Anthony secured the win after missing out defending her 2022 gold in the individual event on Wednesday (local time), saying it “takes the sting” out of the missed medal chance.

Go the Aussies!

From sport to technology, researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new AI tool that can predict when a patient with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) will need a feeding tube.

MND is a progressive condition that affects muscles. As the disease advances, patients can require a feeding tube for nutrition and quality of life.

The issue is that the tube needs to be placed during a ‘Goldilocks’ time. Too early, and it could lower the quality of life. Too late, and it carries more risks and could be less effective.

The researchers have now developed an AI tool to make individual estimates on the disease progression for every patient, meaning doctors can pinpoint the best time for intervention.

Lead researcher Professor Johnathan Cooper-Knock said this would “help ensure the best possible quality of life and potentially extend survival.”

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They began their journey on 26 October in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Bhavitha Mandava is British Vogue’s March 2026 cover star, becoming the first brown cover model to grace an issue of the magazine solo.

It’s not her first time making history: she became the first Indian model to open a Chanel show (after getting scouted on her commute).

In an interview with Vogue, she says she has received “so many emails from people who say my success feels like a personal win for them… [mums show] their daughters my photo and it makes these little brown girls feel better about their skin tone.”

Oh, and if you’d like some more good news, you can watch her parents’ reaction to her Chanel show here. You’re welcome.

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Ahead of his Sydney shows, Ed Sheeran surprised fans of Irish folk band Beoga. Sheeran rocked up at their show in Paddington RSL on Thursday night, and sang ‘Shape of You.’

That’s it. That’s the good news. Watch it here and you’ll understand why!

Every time Olympic season comes around, I love finding out about athletes’ lives at the Athletes’ village.

During the Paris Olympics, it was the chocolate muffins, but in Milano-Cortina, it’s the potted plants. Athletes have the opportunity to become plant parents, and foster plants in the village.

In a press conference, Olympic athlete Madison Chock said she was “pleasantly surprised” about the plant adoption, saying it “really brightens up the room [and] freshens the air.” She also confirmed that the plants are later given to Milan locals.

American figure skater Isabeau Levito documented the relationship with her plant here. According to reporter Devin Heroux, Canada’s Maddie Schizas named her plant Ilya Rozanov, after one of the characters from ‘Heated Rivalry’.

Olympians: They’re just like us.

People often ask us how we pitch and decide which stories to cover. Sometimes, the answer is a little tricky to explain. This story was not one of them.

Here’s how it went down when Features Editor Emma Gillespie pitched this story:

Meet Mona Wiggins. Centenarian, grandmother and dedicated lawn bowler.

She turned 105 recently, and according to the ABC, all she wanted to do to celebrate was to play lawn bowls.

In fact, she chose her retirement village purely because it has a private green (fair enough, Mona).

Speaking to the ABC, she gave some good advice: “Don’t worry too much.”