Greg Baum

Greg Baum

Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age

Horse Racing

The back of Black

Black Caviar

Greg Baum As on the first day of her career, so on the last, and every day between: Black Caviar was ahead of them all.

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Swimming

Former swimming chief rails at 'character assassination'

Explosive new claims of Olympic swim-team torment (Thumbnail)

Greg Baum Lawrie Cox infuriated by threat to slash $2 million from Swimming Australia funding.

Swimming

Water torture: former Swimming Australia man can stay silent no longer

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Greg Baum Swimming was hailed by the Australian Sports Commission as a well-run, accountable and progressive sport, says a former Swimming Australia director infuriated by the ASC's threat to slash $2 million...

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Not sweating, crying at record run

Black Caviar

Greg Baum Rarely in the annals of great Australian horse tales has there been movement at the station quite like this.

Black magic strikes again

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Greg Baum RARELY before in the annals of great Australian horse tales has there been movement at the station quite like this.

Cancer story built a fake ideal of fighting spirit

Greg Baum TONY Greig, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Geoff McClure, Simon Townley. Some of these names will be familiar, some less so.

Cycling

Still trying to take us for a ride

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Greg Baum In life and in sport, the Armstrong legend was built largely on the power of drugs.

Romance of Cup pulls worlds apart together

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Greg Baum Nothing or nobody was excised from the migration zone that is the Werribee international horse centre at the break of a brilliant dawn on Sunday.

Lunar eclipse blots out rest of the field

Brett Prebble

Greg Baum FOR all the mystique, hubbub and breathless speculation - and this year the abiding whiff of skulduggery - sometimes it seems that winning the Melbourne Cup is simply a matter of putting yourself in...

Right time and right place to shoot the moon

Brett Prebble celebrates his Cup-winning ride on Green Moon.

Greg Baum What is too easily overlooked in the ever more hyperbolical prelude is that the Cup is first and last a horse race.

Riding a dream into nightmare

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Greg Baum Lance Armstrong knew that in the public eye he could do no wrong.

Fallen star quits the ride of his life

Lance Armstrong

Greg Baum About Lance Armstrong, one incontestable fact will remain: he quit.