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Iain Payten

Sydney

Sports Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Sports writer, Sydney Morning Herald. [email protected]. DMs open.

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  • Wallabies offered big bucks to sign for global rugby breakaway league

    3 days ago | smh.com.au | Iain Payten |Tom Decent

    By Iain Payten and Tom Decent June 3, 2025 — 3.40pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Several Wallabies stars have been offered big money by organisers of a new global rugby breakaway league, which is pitched being as a formula one-style roadshow and counts royal son-in-law and former England Test star Mike Tindall as a co-founder.

  • Kennedy breaks 10-second barrier for 100m

    6 days ago | watoday.com.au | Michael Gleeson |Iain Payten

    SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeAustralian sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has broken the elusive, magical 10-second barrier for the 100m sprint, becoming just the second Australian man to legally do so. Kennedy ran 9.98s with a legal and even slightly unhelpful wind of -0.7s at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, Kenya overnight.

  • Stuff

    1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Iain Payten

  • 20-minute red card for Wallabies series, hope for golden point in drawn matches

    1 week ago | smh.com.au | Iain Payten

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rugby Australia and the British and Irish Lions have agreed to use the 20-minute red card in their upcoming Test series, and, in a bid to prevent a repeat of the anti-climactic drawn Lions-All Blacks series in 2017, RA are also pushing for golden point in the three-Test series.

  • Stuff

    1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Iain Payten

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11 May 25

Relief for Wallabies star as scans rule out spinal fracture https://t.co/Pq3aBuyR3x

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10 May 25

Feel like Tia Hinds is going to be the Wallaroos’ secret weapon. *** The benefit of Hinds-sight: How sevens star can help Wallaroos overcome Kiwi fear factor https://t.co/biIf7mRslY

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8 May 25

"He’s told me to stop talking on these podcasts about Joey" Lions tour will be big for a bunch of reasons but round two of this outta-nowhere blood feud will be A-plus. *** Tuipulotu and Suaalii set for re-match after two Aussies named in Lions squad https://t.co/SxljtVEd3e