Felices Fiestas Patrias, Chile!
Maria Vicente is ready for training.
David Kendziera's coming at us.
Nadine Visser has one last race this season.
Tokyo 2020: Get to know Primoz Roglic, primed to win his first Tour de France this weekend. Double-Olympic Champion Elaine Tompson-Herah talks coping with Covid-19, overcoming disappointment, and more in a catch-up with The Olympic Channel. Australia's News.com shares with us what Sydney 2000's brightest home stars have been up to since. U.S. athletes Connor Fields and Alise Willoughby named 2020 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup champions after a curtailed, Covid-19 impacted season. London 2012 gold medalist and U.S. soccer superstar Alex Morgan takes her talents to England. Diver Oliver Dingley interviews on his podcast fellow Irishman Brendan Boyce on his road from a police career to mental challenges to skeleton racing. Adrian Carambula and Enrico Rossi are FIVB.com's beach volleyball team of the week. Tokyo 2020-bound windsurfer Tom Squires breaks down his sport to Team GB. ISU.org gives a quick rundown of what some high profile skaters, including Bonnie Blair and Yang Yang (A), are now doing, post-skating. British Gymnastics drama continues.
Feel Good: The Sydney Morning Herald recounts the recovery of a prized - but stolen - gold medal for taekwondo's Lauren Burns from Sydney 2000.
It's Mexican Independence Day!
Have a good week, too, Chad!
Sandi Morris gets personal.
Mo!
Can runner Harry Summers continue to push back past demons to make it to Tokyo 2020?
Tongan Malia Paseka is set to make history with her Olympic debut next year in taekwondo.
EJ Obiena is making a name for himself and the Philippines in the pole vault.
Two names emerged from weekend track & field competition. First, Cyrena Samba-Mayela's win as French 100 meter hurdles champion puts her in the spotlight. And, will Tomas Veszelka be a consistent threat to Christian Taylor's dominance in the triple jump?
Even more track and field: a feel-good friendship to watch as New Zealand sprinters Joseph Millar and Eddie Osei-Nketia push each other toward hopeful Olympic qualification.
Congrats to U.S. Open tennis champions Naomi Osaka and Dominic Thiem? Hope to see you in Tokyo! FIVB beach volleyball is back, as the King of the Court competition completed this past weekend in Utrecht. Congrats to Kings Breer / Krattiger and Queens Agatha / Duda! Canadian rugby sevens bronze medalist Jen Kish talks mental health on September 11th's World Suicide Prevention Day with the CBC. Sally Fitzgibbons is using the pandemic-imposed lockdown to full training advantage ahead of surfing's debut at Tokyo 2020. Four-time Olympian Chirine Njeim is hoping to make it to a fifth Games in Tokyo and help bring attention to her native Lebanon and its need for a "fresh start" after the recent Beirut explosion brought global awareness to sociopolitical issues at home. Njeim placed 109th in the women's marathon at Rio 2016 and in alpine skiing at Salt Lake 2002, Turin 2006, and Salt Lake 2010. Professional boxer Maiva Hamadouche wants to win Olympic gold, too. Olympic Channel: Abdul Hakim Sani Brown has high ambitions in sprinting for Japan. Pole vaulter Sandi Morris gets personal in a thoughtful message on sensitivity and equality. Australian Olympian Madeleine Pape throws support to Caster Semenya, despite previous concerns. New Zealand table tennis stalwart Chunli Li still keeps striving for her Olympic dreams. Cathy Freeman recollects her lighting the Olympic cauldron at Sydney 2000, and Rechelle Hawkes recounts her own participation at the ceremonies.
R.I.P. to Navid Afkari, wrestler from Iran tragically executed over the weekend and whose widely-denounced trial and sentence captured the attention of the sporting community, including athletes, the IOC, Global Athlete, the World Players Association, and even the MMA. So...now what with Iran, IOC? It will be hard for the IOC to do anything as the case didn't, at present, appear to infringe on Iranians' ability to compete, but rather an individual's criminal conduct (per Iranian authorities). Concerns with Iran go far beyond sport, but how welcome Iran will be in international competition will be interesting to see. Perhaps a harder line against Iran when obvious sporting infractions do occur. That will be a good start, and one where sport (ahem, the IOC) can take a lead. |
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