Marco Odermatt recaps the last few days.
Christos Volikakis gets stretchy.
Katerina Johnson-Thompson is in St. Lucia...and I spy Andrew Pozzi...
Iivo Niskanen goes high....
...as do Eric Frenzel and Michael Schwaiger...
A Roundup of Recent News Features on the Stars of Olympic Sports
'Full of ambition', Team Ukraine's track cyclist Alla Biletska takes advantage of a unique training opportunity in Switzerland.
Chilean Tokyo 2020 Olympian Manuel Selman offers his own four tips to 'surf travel'.
"I love training." Canoe slalomist Maialen Chourraut is tackling a sixth Olympics qualification season. Lisa Hirner is 'determined' to show what Nordic combined athletes can do this season in the wake of Milan Cortina 2026 disappointment. Will archers Marcus d'Almeida and Lee Woo-seok renew their (Youth) Olympic rivalry at Paris 2024? Who are FIFA's 'best' men's and women's soccer players for 2023? Voting is open... Queerty looks at Beijing 2008 soccer player Robbie Rogers, and how he is part of the 'cutest Hollywood power couple'. The 'Messi Effect'? Soccer superstar Lionel Messi inadvertently starts his own pizza-gate drama. 'Affable and hard-working Trinidadian' Dylan Carter catches up with World Aquatics as he prepares for the upcoming swimming world cup. â CBC: Judoka Shady El Nahas had a 'soul searching journey' to recover from Tokyo 2020 disappointment. Take a peek at retired judoka-turned-artist Neil Eckersley's new We are Olympians poetry collection. On the heels of a World Championship medal, New Zealander Thomas Mackintosh is World Rowing's latest 'Rower of the Month'. Will it be Rebecca McGowan or Bianca Cook to represent Team Great Britain at Paris 2024 in the women's -67kg category in taekowndo? How have Team Sweden's biathletes fared in a high-altitude camp in France ahead of the 2023/24 season? Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka transitions away from bobsled and into a television career. Can the 'young blood' challenge the 'old guard' in Greco-Roman at this week's World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade? Get to know 'game changer' Mao Shimada as she prepares for the new junior figure skating season. Ice dancer Margarita Dobriazko finds herself in trouble in Lithuania for her appearances within Russia amidst the latter's aggression in Ukraine. How high can pole vaulter Armand Duplantis go? "At the end of my career, I hope to definitely have the highest bar that I think I could have achieved." Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy gets personal in Attitude about body issues, new projects, and even more. Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen "hope to continue the Danish (badminton) men's doubles legacy for a while", as they hope to ride current success to Paris 2024. FIBA: Meet Team Japan's 14-year-old 'confident and ambitious' basketball star Chusonjakku Shiratani. Team USA stars Breanna Stewart and A'ja Wilson are named the WNBA's basketball Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively, by the AP. (And Olympic teammate Brittney Griner shares the Comeback Player of the Year honors.) The path to growth runs through a retirement home for Team New Zealand's men's curling squad. Wrestler Shota Phartenadze pays a price for his medal-winning effort at the World Championships. How did Rizabek Aitmukhan go from a volunteer at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships to a landmark Kazakh champion himself in 2023? Gymnast Melanie de Jesus dos Santos is "so happy" as she focuses on Paris 2024 even while training 'far from France'. Gymnast Salvatore Maresca got down on one knee after success at the recent World Challenge Cup. An HBO Documentary Reveals The Troubled Side of a 'Golden' BoxerThe Golden Boy (2023) A Quick TV Review Growing up convinced to become an Olympic champion after inspiration from fellow East Los Angeles native Paul Gonzalez's Los Angeles 1984 boxing gold, Oscar de la Hoya's own career in the ring took off with his own gold at Barcelona's 1992 Summer Games. The media spin on that win - his fulfilling a 'dying wish' from his mother - combined with his good looks and youth, not to mention raw boxing talent, set the stage for a meteoric rise in fame. HBO's The Golden Boy, released this summer, reviews that history. But the documentary is probably best viewed as an exercise for de la Hoya "to say it out loud, to free myself". The "it" he refers to appears to be the 'original sin' of his career: allowing the false premise of that media persona to take place - his mother offering a 'dying wish' being a lie. And, ill-able to reconcile that and his sudden fame with the demands of trying to live up to the hype and image of his public persona, de la Hoya has since struggled with relationships and maturity. Sports fans paying attention over the years, especially between the mid-90s and the mid-2000s, will know that "The Golden Boy" boxer hasn't had a smooth and clean image: assault allegations, substance abuse issues, high-profile relationship missteps, and a very publicly awkward revealing of his partying. The Golden Boy offers even more rub off his 'golden' shine: frustrations from those close to him and estrangement, to say the least, with multiple children. Most importantly, de la Hoya's own voice is key: his acknowledgement of his flailing. The Golden Boy - and 'The Golden Boy' himself - might not leave us confident of consistently positive steps forward by the documentary's end, but, through the baring of his travails, it is a chance for him to start "to live in reality". Who Are New Names In Olympic Sports Worth Watching?13-year-old Da'vian Kimbrough is the 'youngets professional athlete is U.S. team sports history'. Road cyclist Ben Wiggins sees his junior results as 'better than his dad's, champion Bradley Wiggins.
Olympic Sports Athletes Away From Competition...
Ancuta Bodnar has some fake friends.
Birk Ruud works - and plays - on the beach.
Liudmilla Luzan reboots.
Mihai Pacioianu gets pensive on a rock...
Taylor Fritz works the catwalk.
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