Jaydon Hibbert brings the (fit) heat again.
Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe takes baby steps (waves).
Martin Fuchs takes a different kind of horse ride.
Stiliana Nikolova hangs out in the snow.
Jaxk Laugher goes matchy-matchy with a friend.
A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In Recent News
'Who am I if I don't do this anymore?' Surfer Carissa Moore announces the pending end of her career
Team Great Britain: Get to know star track cyclist Emma Finucane.
Equestrian Nicolas Wettstein is proud to participate in a landmark third Olympics, this time in Paris 2024 with two other Team Ecuador riders. (in Spanish) Champion judoka Luka Krpalek eagerly eyes Paris 2024 - his first Olympics with family in attendance. Former Team Canada star Joe Thornton is set to receive a rare retirement honor from the San Jose Sharks ice hockey team. Tennis.com: Who is Shang Juncheng, who 'made his mark' at the Australian Open last week? Athlete to watch: Ukrainian junior tennis player Elizaveta Kotlyar causes a stir with a post-match handshake. (in Ukrainian) Thaisa Menezes has returned to global competitive volleyball...and has 'top tier' plans for Team Brazil at Paris 2024. Alpine skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reflects on that season-ending crash. Will we see an even "better version" of gymnast Hillary Heron at her first Olympics in Paris this summer? Gymnast Georgia-Rose Brown is successful in her nationality switch to New Zealand in competition. Open water swimmer Nick Sloman has 'unfinished business' at a classic race in South Africa, and has plans to tackle that before a Paris 2024 appearance. "I honestly couldn't help but smile." Swimmer Yui Ohashi's recent Kotsuke Kitajima Cup success is a big 'confidence' boost'. Will a weight division change be the key for Paris 2024 success for boxer Charley Davison? Champion canoeist Jessica Fox may have strong recent ties to France, but her heart remains Australian ahead of Paris 2024. Is Team Italy's 40-year-old Joel Retornaz the 'next John Shuster' in curling? NBC Sports: 'What's been working so far' this season for freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf? Freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury looks ahead to a home-course advantage in support as the World Cup moves to Quebec. What was the 'most important piece of advice' champion triathlete Alistair Brownlee received? Is veteran basketball star Lauren Jackson headed toward another Olympics appearance this summer? Team Greece's stars of recent global competitions, and those headed to Paris 2024, are feted by the Hellenic Olympic Committee. Olympic hopeful triathlete Hugo Milner 'stays true to his cross-country roots'. "Very good at peaking at the right time", middle-distance runner Josh Kerr already has a clear vision of his Paris 2024 race plans. Citius Magazine introduces us to new 10k road world record-holder Agnes Ngetich. Rio 2016 long jump champion Jeff Henderson takes his talents to the coaching ranks. Sprinter Lanae-Tava Thomas' recent eligibility 'heartbreak' hasn't stopped her from eyeing Paris 2024 for Team Jamaica. Team Great Britain sprinting star Zharnel Hughes has Usain Bolt-like plans for the future, including big dreams for Paris 2024. R.I.P. to Canadian Olympian and world champion pole vaulter Shawnacy Barber, passed away from 'medical complications' last week. Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has big plans for 2024, as he tells Inside Track.
The Social Media Lives of Olympic Sports Stars This Week...
Teddy Riner finds some play time.
Alexis Mac Allister recharges some more in Dubai.
Enzo Lefort makes a statement in Louis Vuitton.
Soren Dahl makes it to the top.
Eric Radford does Morocco.
Headline-Making Olympic Sports Athletes...
Ice hockey stars and Olympians Natalie Darwitz, Jaromir Jagr, Kenny Jonsson, Igor Liba, Jaroslav Pouzar, Ryan Smyth, Desideriu Varga, and Nagano 1998's Team Czech Republic headline the IIHF Hall of Fame class for 2024.
Olympic curlers Madeleine Dupont and Eve Muirhead reflect for World Curling on their junior careers as springboards to senior success.
News.com: Get to know Marissa Williamson-Pohlman, 'set to become Australia's first female Indigenous Olympic boxer'. Capital Sports: Will Team Kenya make history at Paris 2024 with a rugby sevens medal? After gold at Tokyo 2020, Team Serbia is just hoping to qualify to Paris 2024 in men's water polo. FIG: Team Great Britain gymnast Jake Jarman has 'big plans for 2024 and beyond'. Is NBA and Olympic basketball star Draymond Green's legacy on the line this second half of the season? Who are the various national team number ones in men's and women's 3x3 basketball to start 2024? Handball continues to make its mark in Iceland, as national team star Gisli Porgeir Kristjansson wins 'Sports Personality of the Year' honors for his 2023 exploits. Who are golfers to watch as the Paris 2024 qualification rankings tighten up as the new year begins. IJF takes a look at the current number ones in women's judo as the Olympic year begins in earnest. "Please let me fight in Paris!" Judoka Manuel Lombardo may be referring to an upcoming Grand Slam event, but after a disappointing Tokyo 2020...Olympic redemption awaits, too. "It feels super, super good." Team USA's Sophie Laukli wins an impressive cross-country skiing victory. An Se Young and the mixed doubles pair of Yuta Watanabe & Arisa Higashino make history at the recent badminton Malaysia Open. Javelin great Barbora Spotakova makes sure her career has a presence in the Museum of World Athletics. Fellow javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk talks 'fighter mindset' and more, on the The Athletes Zone Podcast with Asdis Hjalmsdottir Annerud. Inside the Games: Ukrainian-born hammer thrower Hanna Skydan aims for a fourth Summer Olympics, and third for Azerbaijan. Former flatwater rowing standout Cara Stawicki has made a successful transition to coastal rowing. Looks liek quadruple Olympic medalist Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario has some big financial debt...but avoids heading to jail for it. Team USA looks back at the Tokyo 2020 women's volleyball gold medal game with its champions. Stephen Laybutt: A Sydney 2000 soccer player's recent odd death brings reflection on recent generosity. Team Brazil's Marta's 'outstanding career achievement' on the soccer pitch recognized by FIFA. Check out all the winners at fifa.com. "I just want to beat the fastest person." Swimmer Daniel Wiffen's 'quiet confidence' is on the upswing.
Remembering A Tournament To Forget for the USWNTUnder Pressure: The U.S. Women's World Cup Team (2023) A Quick TV Review To say that the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was a disappointment for the U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) is a serious understatement, especially considering the overall and imposing success Team USA has had in its history (including four Olympic championships and six total Olympic podiums). A recap of what happened, and perhaps why, is the focus of Netflix's Under Pressure: The U.S. Women's World Cup Team, released in late 2023 to review what had been the world's top-ranked team's build-up and run through the World Cup. Clearly, the producers had been hoping, and perhaps expecting along with the rest of us, that the USWNT would romp its way to the final, letting this (likely) pre-planned documentary be a celebration of another strong record. Starting off with introductions to team newcomers like Kristie Mews and Lynn Williams while receiving call-ups to the final squad could just have easily been the lead off to that celebration of a team that persevered through huge changeover from previous iterations. Of course, fate had other plans. The team - generally struggling with a lack of familiarity with each other - limped through the Group Stage in second place, before losing in its first knockout game against old nemesis Team Sweden. And so naturally turned the tone and focus of Under Pressure. Was it a function of that unfamiliarity? And/or that the rest of the women's soccer world has 'caught up" significantly in recent years? Simply under-coaching? Under Pressure doesn't provide concrete answers. Williams laments that in the days immediately following the team's exit there wasn't closure of debriefing, and we, the viewers, feel that way a bit, too, with an Under Pressure that doesn't offer answers. Perhaps one can just leave it to a basic fact of life in sports...evolution continues, sport moves on, and no dynasty is forever. There are bright moments to celebrate here, particularly Mewis scoring a penalty kick in her first tournament touch, and a nice look at her support of partner Samantha Kerr's Team Australia. And Under Pressure's bit of an left turn addressing the eventual champion Team Spain's behind-the-scenes federation travails is an opportunity to remind everyone of the history of the USWNT - both on-the-field and off-the field with its championing of its players' rights. That's definitely something worth remembering. And so is the fact that Paris 2024 beckons soon. The USWNT is qualified. Will a win there erase memories of 2023? Such things do have a funny way of providing some closure... |
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