Are Team New Zealand's Erice van Leuven, Poppy Lane, and Sacha Earnest the future of women's mountain biking? Hong Kong fencer Kaylin Hsieh Sin-yan's University Games success has her targeting both the Asian Games and Paris 2024.
A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes Making News
Get to know Dhoan Feybi Bezhura, Team Ukraine's 2023 European Games champion. (in Ukrainian)
Retiree Paige McPherson talks with NBC Sports on her taekwondo career, Olympics, and more.
The Refugee Olympic Team's pool of athletes expands by 10 athletes, from taekwondo to shooting, judo, boxing, and cycling. â Rio 2016 champion judoka Rafaela Silva is the latest 'The Olympic Series' interview by the IJF. Olympic figure skater and Stars on Mars champion Adam Rippon shares more disappointing insight on road cyclist Lance Armstrong's comments on trans athletes. Six shooting athletes have been named winners of the ISSF Athletes Committee elections: Damir Mikec and Riccardo Mazzetti for pistol, Cassio Rippel and Petar Gorsa for rifle, and Amber English and Daniele Dispigno for shotgun. Olympic table tennis medalist Ai Fukuhara's family custody drama entered the news last month. The New York Times takes a look at the remarkable marathon career of Mongolian Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, who's now looking ahead to a hopeful sixth Olympian. Do runner Ciara Mageean's and sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke's fourth-place finishes at the World Athletics Championships last week portend podiums in the near future? After a first world javelin championship last week, Haruka Kitaguchi now eyes the 2025 edition in her home country Japan. CNNâ: Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is 'now embracing the most important cause of all'. Barcelona 1004 400-meter track medalist Ximena Restrepo officially named to an upgraded position within World Athletics's administration. âDid you know that 400-meter track world champion Marileidy Paulino was once a handball prospect? Mountain biker Camile Balanche has an update on her recent hard crash while training in Andorra. Surfer Connor O'Leary takes a 'backdoor route' to Olympic qualification. Tennis: Novak Djokovic is 'back in New York and loving it as never before'. CNNâ looks at Caroline Woziacki and other tennis players who have returned to competition after childbirth and a spell at stay-at-home motherhood. The New York Times Magazine: For Elina Svitolina and other Ukrainian tennis players, the Russian invasion back home has turned their sport 'into a battlefield'. âWho are 'women's crews to watch' at the upcoming World Rowing Championships? Biathlon World takes a look at the photography hobby biathletes Emilien Jacquelin and Emily Dickson have picked up. Top rhythmic gymnast Darja Varfolomeev 'has surpassed her mother's results and expectations' with her recent world championships triumph. Relive the World Sailing Championships on World Sailing's 'The Sailing Show' to wrap up August. How did taking up weightlifting impact the lives of athletes in Honduras and Jordan? Can Rei Higuchi win another Olympic wrestling medal after missing Tokyo 2020? Alpine skiing champion Lindsey Vonn opens up with USA TODAY about her 'struggles' post-retirement. âMikaela Shiffrin, Marc Rochat, Lucas Braathen, and Joan Verdu are just some of the Alpine skiers letting fans peek behind the scenes of their lives through digital media.
Joan Verdu's "The Toughest Challenge of My Life, Part 2"
Programming Note: Games and Rings will be on vacation for Labor Day, and will return on 9/05/23.
Recent News Features on Olympic Sports AthletesTeam Ukraine star swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk sees this season as the "most difficult year" in his career. (in Ukrainian) GQ South Africa: Champion swimmer Chad le los was 'destined to have a story to tell'.
"I am NOT RETIRING!!" Team Australia swimming great Kyle Chalmers does some explaining. Team Japan's 'Nadeshiko' women's football team is 'back on the global map' with their performance at the FIFA Women's World Cup. Grieving over loss was just part of Katrina Gorry's impactful evening in Team Australia's FIFA World Cup quarterfinal win. And that quarterfinal win? Team Australia's 'Matildas' keep on breaking audience records... Olympic road racer David Millar gets some heat for his 4x4 love. "I don't have to choose, do I?" Mountain bike world champion Tom Pidcock sees a future on the road still. Is Team USA's 'Olympic dynasty' in danger in women's water polo? Mathis Henno leads a strong French presence on the World U19 Men's Volleyball Championship 'dream team'. Runner Tim Cheruiyot still has some championship title goals: "If you ask for number one, you will be given number one". BBC: Get to know Megan Keith, a former orienteering athlete now headed to the World Athletics Championships as a long-distance runner. Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles practices some manifestation. Suddeutsche Zietung looks at 'the woes' currently facing javelin thrower Johannes Vetter, still returning from injury that has derailed his elite form. (in German) Meanwhile, has fellow German javelin thrower Julian Weber figured out the right mental approach to secure a senior global podium place finally? And more javelin! How did Tokyo 2020 champion Neeraj Chopra help 'lift' all of Indian sport? Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, hurdler Femke Bol, and runners Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Keely Hodgkinson are four top European athletes to watch at the World Athletics Championships. Running great-turned-sports administrator Paul Tergat sees lots of potential in Kenya's rugby sevens future on the women's side. The Off the Podium podcast has an 'amazing' interview with Olympic triathlete Simon Whitfield. Also...Solveig Livseth and Lotte Miller are proving that the 'Norwegian method' in triathlon can produce success on the women's side too. Can tennis legend Venus Williams help others manage through dreaded 'tennis elbow'? Belgian tennis player Greet Minnen shares the dark side of being a publicly LGBT-out athlete on tour. Gymnast Andrew Steele adds an all-around element to a surging Irish team at the upcoming worlds. Whoa...London 2012 boxer Felipe Verdejo-Sanchez is convicted in double murder charges. Is London 2012 champion Anthony Joshua 'carrying the heavyweight division' in boxing these days? Team USA B-girl Sunny Choi talks breaking on the latest Keep the Flame Alive podcast. Olympics: Surfer Griffin Colapinto talks reaching the number one ranking, golf, siblings, and more. Meanwhile, fellow surfer Ethan Ewing gives fans an update on his 'devastating' injury in Tahiti. That Liz Cambage incident that caused her stepping down from Team Australia's basketball squad ahead of Tokyo 2020 just won't go away quietly... Olympic champion basketball-er James Harden makes a striking return visit to China. Team USA's Montreal 1976 women's basketball team is enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame alongside Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, and others. Arionas Kolitsopoulos is the first Greek wrestler to finally win a world U17 title, in any class. Who Won The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships?The inaugural edition of the UCI Cycling World Championships ended today after 10 days of competition based in Glasgow, Scotland. Previously, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) championships for various disciplines were held separately; this was the first time all were held under one banner. A total of 12 world championships were held: road cycling, track cycling, mountain bike (marathon, cross-country & downhill), trials, BMX (park, flatland, racing), indoor, and Gran Fondo for men, women and elite and junior levels; para cycling road and track were also held. Congratulations to all the world champions! A quick recap of the elite category event winners in Olympic discipline championships (road, track, mountain bike cross-country, and BMX park and racing) is below. More information on all the action across the 12 championships can be found online at uci.org. 2023 World Road Cycling Champions Olympic Sports Athletes Are Making HeadlinesThey may not be bound for Paris 2024, but Ukrainians Mykhailo Sivets and Daniel Zhydkov help drive awareness from breaking, even away from home. Oksana Khvostenko talks rebuilding biathlon facilities in Ukraine destroyed by Russia, and more, with Sport 24. (in Ukrainian)
Team Czech Republic ice hockey hero Dominik Hasek continues his strong words against seeing Russian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Tennis' Elina Svitolina's unsuspected Wimbledon run sure caused some change of plans... More USA TODAY: Trinity Thomas still has enough 'competitive fire' to return to elite gymnastics despite the end of her successful collegiate career. Can Nadine Joy Nathan make it to her first Olympics in her third Olympic cycle as an elite gymnast for Team Singapore? "I could never have imagined where this beautiful game would take me." Team USA soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe has an announcement ahead of the World Cup. Will Tokyo 2020 champions Team Canada also score a podium finish at the upcoming soccer Women's World Cup? Meanwhile, "weirdo" soccer defender Rebekah Stott hopes to inspire the future generation of New Zealanders while making a mark at the World Cup after coming back from cancer treatment. Team USA basketball champion Breanna Stewart helps drive better playing options for colleagues during the offseason. Team USA swimmer Erin Gemmell gets a belated apology from officials on her omission from last year's worlds team. Retired Team Australia swimmer James Magnussen makes his Dancing with the Stars debut. What is Canadian Joshua Liendo's goal for the World Aquatics Championships? Simply, "swim fast". Does Olivia Green's recent European Games gold portend success at Paris 2024 in modern pentathlon? "My dream is to be the biggest player in the world, obviously." VolleyballWorld checks in with 19-year-old rising star for Team Bulgaria, Aleksandar Nikolov. Tara Ringley was a star netballer until injury turned her to rowing...and she's a strong Olympic contender. Olympic rowing champion Greg Searle is a champion in driving water pollution awareness, too. "This is what I've seen the big boys doing." Sprinter Luxolo Adams has learned from his first worlds last year as he contemplates a better showing at this year's. Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is 'not back...she's better'. Gina Bass makes history for Team Gambia as she qualifies for a third straight Olympics in sprinting. Middle-distance runner Ciara Mageean reflects on her breakthrough season last year after an 'accumulation of 10 years of work'. Pole vaulter Sondre Guttormsen thinks he has the speed for a 6.10meter performance...and maybe more in the future. World and Olympic triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas wants to take the event to "another galaxy" by breaking the 16-meter mark for women. How does mountain biking star Maja Wloszczowska see as the legacy of the recent European Games? Can triathlete Taylor Knibb make it to Paris 2024 as a time trial road cyclist as well? Sporting News: Get to know road cyclist and Australian Tour de France hope Jai Hindley. Alpine star Mikaela Shiffrin gets a front-and-center feature in photographer David Yarrow's 'National Treasure' work in Norway. (And don't miss Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in there, too...) Tokyo 2020 boxer Ramla Ali makes an appearance with Dior at Paris Couture Week. Who are the 11 new 'ambassadors' of the upcoming Pan American Games, committed to competing at the events in Santiago? The New York Times gets to know Austin Krajicek, who's resurrected his tennis career through doubles |
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