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What News Are Olympic Sports Athletes Making?
Team Denmark gets a national honor after it's three-peat performance at the men's handball world championship in 2023.
Can Team USA's women's water polo extend it's remarkable global title streak at this year's world?
FIBA: What have been triple Olympic basketball champion Kevin Durant's 'top 10 USA games'? Which 3x3 basketball teams 'defined 2023'? FIBA 3x3 takes a look at the men's and women's top teams. Rasmus Stegfeldt, Elliot Vaillancourt, Alli Macuga, and Maia Schwinghammer are moguls freestyle skiers with recent big 'breakthrough' moments. Akane Yamaguchi is taking "one tournament at a time" after making a strong comeback to badminton from a long injury layoff. Team China's weightlifters got a grounds-eye sneak peek at Paris 2024 recently. "2023 made me believe i myself even more." A successful season pushed rhythmic gymnast Barbara Domingos into the Brazilian spotlight. Is a 'trilogy fight' in the boxing cards for Team Ireland London 2012 champion Katie Taylor against rival Chantelle Cameron? Equestrian eventer David Doel has eyes on being a member of a championship British team...and 2024 presents multiple global opportunities. Having a work-life balance, inspiring others, and continuing fashion headlines are just some of the 2024 goals for track & field stars Armand Duplantis, Faith Kipyegon, and Noah Lyles. High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh leads the Ukrainian Olympic Committee's 2023 honors as the 'best athlete of the year'. Mete Gazoz and Lim Sihyeon headline World Archery's 'best archers' for the 2023 season. Team Spain soccer star Aitana Bonmati may have had a stellar 2023 season, but she wants even more. Sport climber Emma Hunt is the lone Olympic sport representative on the World Games Athlete of the Year nomination list for 2023. (voting is open!) Team USA rugby sevens star Ilona Maher takes her cellulite (and body positivity) to the spotlight. âMeanwhile, Team Chile's men's rugby sevens squad has high hopes for this year's challenger series...can it make it to a promotion tournament in Madrid? Sports shooters Clement Bessaguet and Doreen Venekamp are the ISSF Athletes of the Year for 2023. Double Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond sees his Paris 2024 hopes 'dashed'. Can Jade Jones win the third taekwondo Olympic title that eluded her in 2021? Joseph Choong, Elena Micheli, and Mohana Shaban are the top senior modern pentathletes in the UIPM Awards for 2023. What's the latest with Los Angeles 1984 star gymnast Mary Lou Retton and the crowd-sourced funding for her urgent treatment? Team Italy gymnast Alice D'Amato may be an all-around event star but she's just focused on staying healthy ahead of Paris 2024. Champion gymnast Simone Biles talks 'marriage, WAG life with Taylor Swift, and the Paris Olympics' with Vanity Fair. Tahitian surfer Kauli Vaast makes a fashion statement with the house of Dior ahead of Paris 2024. The Athletic: Is Novak Djokovic the 'GOAT' of tennis? Get yourself a Meta Avatar of tennis and Tokyo 2020 star Naomi Osaka! Recent News and Headlines Featuring Olympic Sports Athletes
In Style: Naomi Osaka is "more sure of herself than ever before" upon the eve of her tennis return.
The ATP Tour announces its 2023 ATP Award winners, including stars Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Janik Sinner, and more.
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu may pass on the Australian Open next month, but certainly has Paris 2024 on her mind. How flexible are you compared to tennis champion Novak Djokovic? Short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun (Lim Hyo-jun) feels the heat on Chinese social media. SFGate offers some reason for San Francisco Giants baseball fans to be excited about Tokyo 2020 Olympian Jung-hoo Lee's arrival next season. Meanwhile, Beijing 2008 bronze medalist John Gall is named the new president of USA Baseball: "I am humbled and privileged". Who will be FIFA's 'best' male and female soccer players of 2023? We'll find out January 15... Laia Aleixandri and Lucia Garcia write for The Players' Tribune on *not* playing for Team Spain at the recent FIFA World Cup and how that came to be. "It is something magical, though, with the Olympics." Champion soccer player Julie Foudy talks Paris 2024 vs the next World Cup with CNN. Four-time Alpine skiing Olympian Aksel Lund Svindal talks of the Games' ability to inspire in the latest Olympic Review. Team Ukraine's recent mixed relay biathlon junior success has caused sights set on Milano Cortina 2026. (in Ukrainian) "Clunky"? Count The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw as not a fan of The Boys in the Boat film on Team USA's Berlin 1936 rowing champions. Champion New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko looked for some fellow champion's advice after closing out a disappointing 2023 season. Tokyo 2020 qualification disappointment has U.S. triathlete Taylor Knibb wary as 2024 approaches. "Madness" is how skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych describes the IOC's decision to allow Russians and Belarusians at Paris 2024. (in Ukrainian) Double world champion gymnast Rhys McClenaghan is 2023's RTE Sports Sportsperson of the Year. Weightlifter Maude Charron, skateboarder Fay de Fazio Ebert, gymnast Felix Dolci, and archer Eric Peters are just some of Team Canada's aspiring Olympians put through the media paces ahead of Paris 2024. Gymnast Lukas Dauser has a 'soaring level of confidence' after a big 2023 both on and off the mat. Could we see Team Kenya's 'Ice Lion's ice hockey squad at a Winter Olympics in the (near) future? World track cycling champion Wong Kam-po looks to... North Korea?...for Hong Kong sporting success. âCycling star Tom Pidcock aims to 'prove himself' at the 2024 Tour de France ahead of the Paris Olympics. Olympians dominate USA TODAY's looks at 'sports' biggest cheats': road cyclist Lance Armstrong, sprinters, Marion Jones and Ben Johnson, modern pentathlete Boris Onischenko, marathoner Frederick Lorz, and figure skater Tonya Harding. World Athletics: Long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon sure removed any doubts of her career resume with a world-record 2023 season. ââJamaican junior triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert makes Bowerman Award history. For sprint hurdler Kostas Douvalidis, watching Paraskevi Patoulidou's Barcelona 1992 triumph was a "stimulus" for his start in the sport. (in Greek) Not being on the BBC's shortlist of 'SportsPersonality of the Year' just provides more Paris 2024 motivation for world champion runner Josh Kerr. Winning the 2023 European Cross Country title has put 'Paris (2024) pressure and glory' onto Team France runner Yann Schrub. (But he and heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson win 2023 accolades from the British Athletics Writers Association...) Mackenzie Little has big plans for 2024: both throwing the javelin at Paris 2024 and completing her first-year as a full doctor. Will Team USA basketball star Draymond Green's on-court dramas finally push his Golden State Warriors to a breaking point this season? Australian star swimmer Libby Trickett has thoughts on over-parenting and declining participation in Australian youth sports system. Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen's recent world record performance put his mother in a "state of shock". SwimSwam: What should Team USA women's swimming fans be watching for in the lead-up to Paris? A Men's Health look back: Team Italy veteran Ivan Zaytsev looks to "leave the volleyball world in better conditions" once he (finally) retires. (in Italian) Get To Know Olympic Sports Athletes Through Recent News
Runners Faith Kipyegon, Kelvin Kiptum & Tigist Assefa, sprinter Noah Lyles, triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, and pole vaulter Armand Duplantis are the 'Athletes of the Year' for World Athletics in 2023.
(p.s. Noah Lyles has some thoughts...)
Meanwhile, Olympics features Ethiopian-Dutch running star Sifan Hassan, whose 'rollercoaster life' has proven to her to not give up. Team Great Britain's Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis now gets to run UK Athletics. Lena Haecki-Gross answers 'five burning questions' for Biathlon World, and shares 'some special things'. Both Team Netherlands and Team Hungary face a daunting task to defend their respective water polo world championships next year. Olympians Oliver Zeidler, Francesco Fossi, Caryn Davies, Imogen Grant, and Emily Craig lead the 2023 World Rowing Awards. How did Athens 2004 rower Kathy Johnson transition from elite athlete to elite marketer? Figure skating: Who will win the 2024 ISU Skating Awards? Voting is open until January 7th... World Sailing looks at seven stars 'who went on to win big' after youth world championships success. Team France's Ramatou Ouedraogo has a 'big future ahead' in equestrian jumping. The International Weightlifting Federations doubles down on its commitment to refugee athletes. Marta Kropko may be a relative newcomer to elite triathlon, but Paris 2024 may really be on the horizon. South Koreans Seo Sung Jae and An Se Young headlined the badminton 2023 'Player of the Year' awards. "My dream has finally happened." Team Cuba London 2012 taekwondo medalist Robelis Despaigne is now officially a UFC fighter. Injuries finally take their toll on judoka Gemma Howell, retiring double Olympian after a landmark career. "I apologize for what I did". Belgian cyclist Max Van Gils accepts punishment for his road race transgression against rival Georgios Bouglas. Chef de Mission: Tokyo 2020 road cyclist Masomah Ali Zada gets a big Refugee Team role for Paris 2024. A look back: Women's rugby sevens veterans reflect on Dubai experiences in early days vs today. Snowboarder Julie Zogg aims to show she 'still has what it takes to stay at the top' after a multi-front successful prior season. Tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz score a promotional event deal with Netflix in Las Vegas. How did Team Japan score a recent landmark upset win over co-host Team Denmark at the Handball Women's World Championship? Who will be United World Wrestling's 'Wrestlers of the Year' for 2023? Kaysha Love is doing a pretty good job of transferring from push to drive in bobsled this season. "I can't say winning the worlds didn't change my life." Archer Marie Horackova reflects on a historic win. Team Switzerland's Alpine skiing stars Marco Odermatt and Laura Gut-Behrami headlined the winners at the 2023 Swiss Sports Awards.
Which Olympic Sports Stars Are Making Headlines Recently?
The stars came out to support the stories of weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet II and fellow Refugee Team members as We Dare to Dream premiered in London this past weekend.
Weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana's victory at the Pacific Games not only increased her Paris 2024 qualification hopes, but came in front of an especially supportive crowd.
London 2012 Olympian Luol Deng shares excitement that the 'Giants of the Nile' (er, Team South Sudan) is headed to Paris 2024's basketball competition. Olympic track & field champions Joanna Hayes and Gail Devers talk 'The Gift of Greatness' alongside legendary coach Bobby Kersee. Cross-country skier Calle Halfvarsson suffers a "Leindholm' in frigid competition conditions. "It's going to be really, really fun." Team Norway's Maren Aardahl and Ingvild Bakkerud are excited to help host - and succeed at - the team handball Women's World Championship this year. 'Honor mixed with responsibility' is how Amos Mosaner and Team Italy's curling sees their Milano Cortina 2026 opportunity. Will rugby 15s star Antoine Dupont make it to Paris 2024 in the sevens version for Team France. Olympics: Is pumpkin farming in childhood the key to wrestler Zein Retherford's success on the mat? Soccer star Olga Carmona reflects on Team Spain's World Cup victory as the 100 day anniversary is marked. Biathlon World has 'five burning questions' for Franziska Preuss, who has come back to the biathlon circuit in full form. Kate Douglass, Katie Ledecky, and Ryan Murphy headline USA' Swimmings 'Golden Goggles' honorees. Meanwhile, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Mimi Gochman took the top honors at the FEI Awards Gala for equestrian stars. âWill Team Senegal make a breakthrough beach volleyball appearance at Los Angeles 2028? There's still time to vote for FIH's 'Hockey Stars' for 2023, with nominees including field hockey stars Sonja Zimmermann, Thierry Brinkman, Zach Wallace, and more. Team Switzerland's injury 'misfortunes' in freestyle skiing haven't paused in the new season. Rio 2016 archery medalist Jean-Charles Valladont is "readier than ever" for a Paris 2024 rebound in form. World Sailing takes a look at how Team Ireland has become a leading example in the sport for 'smaller national programs'. Which tennis stars will win the ATP Tour's season-ending awards this year? Tokyo 2020 champion Alexander Zverev is up for 'Comeback Player of the Year'... What has rower Kathrin Boron been up to since her legendary Olympic exploits? IJF's 'Olympic Champions' series continues with an interview with Beijing 2008 star Giulia Quintavalle. Will Team Switzerland triathlete Cathia Schar's 'love for life' lead her to a strong 2024 season? One to watch: Maggie Dowling is enduring training far from home, and a 'hurting' body in order to represent Team New Zealand in luge at the upcoming Youth Winter Games. "Life has been a roller coaster lately" for Swiss ice hockey star Lara Stalder. Congratulations to Pyeongchang 2018 medalist Laura Deas, whose recently announced pregnancy sees her missing this year's skeleton season. Which athletes will win election to the IOC's Athletes' Commission next year at the Paris Games? âCanoeist Jessica Fox earns NSW 'Champion of Sport' honors, as fellow Olympian Mathew Helm (diving) makes it into the NSW Hall of Champions. What's next for newly-retired Olympic diver Anton Down-Jenkins? Back to school! (Sort of)
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