Danas Rapsys gets 'brave in his body'.
Francesco Bonsanto takes in some sun...
...as does Cynthia Bolingo...
Stefanos Ntouskos gets a plum assignment.
Liu Shaolin gets some rest in amidst the rain.
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A Look At What News Olympic Sports Stars In Recent News Features
British gymnastics legend Max Whitlock is "excited for the opportunity to try and create further history" before retirement.
Gymnast Rayderley Zapata is headed to Paris 2024 with 'intelligence, confidence, and inspiration'.
Olympics: Gymnastics legend Oksana Chusovitina remarkably takes a step closer to another Olympics. Five-time Olympic swimming medalist Lily King can now see the end of her career, to come sometime between Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028. Team Canada swimming star Maggie Mac Neil walks back some post Paris 2024 retirement speculation. Breaststroker Tatjana Smith's return to form - similar to ahead of Tokyo 2020 - was a highlight of the South African swimming championships. Meanwhile, Team Great Britain's James Guy isn't planning to let 'Olympic hype' distract him from an optimal Paris 2024 performance. "I'm excited to go and give it my all." Surfer Ethan Ewing looks ahead to a return to the scene of a bad crash with qualification to Paris 2024's competition in Tahiti. How is London 2012 boxer Oleksandr Usyk preparing for the upcoming 'fight of the century' against Tyson Fury? (in Ukrainian) âStar road cyclist Wout van Aert is prioritizing full health instead of a quick return to racing after a recent crash, in order to make an Olympics and Tour de France push. London 2012 Olympian and tennis major champ Simona Halep is 'ready to move forward' with a return from a surprise suspension. Tokyo 2020 cauldron lighter and tennis champion Naomi Osaka still has 'hope' to play at Paris 2024. Did you know about the Olympic tennis connection to the Titanic? Team Great Britain offers 'five things you should know' about rower Georgie Brayshaw. GQ Sports: Team USA basketball star Sue Bird 'is glad the world is finally catching up'. Team Japan captain Toi Suzuki credits his 'second home' of Greece for pushing forward his water polo career. (in Greek) âWho will be the 'Emerging Athlete of the Year' in Australia? Sprint kayaker Riley Fitzsimmons is headed to his third Olympics...and now he has fellow former surf life savers with him for Team Australia. Inspired by the sport opening to women at Sydney 2000, Tayla Ford is now to be Team New Zealand's first-ever Olympic wrestler. âWas wrestler Frank Chamizo offered a bribe ahead of a key Olympic qualification match? Team Canada looks at a number of sibling athletes with Paris 2024 ambitions, including wrestlers Ana and Karla Godinez Gonzalez, taekwondo stars Skylar, Tae-ku, and Braven Park, whitewater slalomists Lea and Alex Baldoni, 3x3 basketball players Michelle and Katherine Plouffe, runners Lucia Stafford and Garbielle DeBues-Stafford, and sailors Antonia and Georgia Lewin LaFrance. Will a switch to Isle of Man representation in Europe be the key for Bianca Cook to make it to Paris 2024 for Team Great Britain taekwondo? The British Columbia city of Burnaby now has two athletes headed to Paris 2024, after Josipa Kafadr's success at an "intense" taekwondo qualifier. "If I make it, I guess I'll have to figure it out." Team USA's Dakotah Lindwurm surprised with a marathon spot for Paris 2024, and now has to readjust her legal career plans. Emily Sisson makes a case for justice for fellow Team USA runner Alysia Montano, now in line for a belated London 2012 medal. Emile Cairess and Phil Sesmann are 'friends and rivals', and likely both headed to Paris 2024 as marathoners for Team Great Britain. One hobby that sprinter Dina Asher-Smith uses to relax? Pottery. Sprint hurdler Queen Harrison Claye adds her voice to the clamor against Nike's recent Paris 2024 track & field uniform reveal. He may only be 20-years-old, but rising javelin thrower Artur Felfner has eyes set on Paris 2024. Discus thrower Matt Denny's return from a recent Covid-19 battle was just one highlight from Team Australia's Olympic trials. Reuters: Will marathon great Eliud Kipchoge win a remarkable third Olympic title? Olympic and world champion triple jumper Yulimar Rojas' injury rules her out of Paris 2024. Olympic Sports Athletes In The News
World Rowing looks at the single scull career of New Zealander Robbie Manson.
Who were the 'best jumpers' in Nordic combined this past 2023-24 season?
38-year-old soccer star Marta talks to FIFA about her 'remaining dreams' in the sport for Team Brazil. Team USA talks 'woman to woman' with soccer player and first-generation athlete Naomi Girma. Chilean Camila Caram and Indian PR Sreejesh are named co-chairs of field hockey's Athletes Committee. Dennis Schroeder is feeling pretty confident that Team Germany "can beat any team" at Paris 2024's basketball tournament after an exceptionally strong World Cup showing. What has the 'path to Paris' looked like for soon-to-be Olympic triathlete Nina Elm of Team Germany? 'Relief' is the key word for archer Arif Pangestu as his Paris 2024 qualification is already secured. "Weightlifting is my life." A strong World Cup performance has Papua New Guinean Dika Toua on the brink of a sixth Olympics Games. Will a training camp in Japan be the key for wrestler Frank Chamizo's Paris 2024 ambitions? "When I fight I feel free." Judoka Fabio Basile finds motivation in the trials and tribulations of the sport. Biathlon World helps say goodbye to retiring 'reliable relay leadoff leg' Peppe Femling. World champion Alvaro Martin is used to big expectations of Team Spain in race walking, and he's readying to help deliver at Paris 2024. Ugandan running star Jacob Kiplimo survives a 'nasty' car accident back home. Did you know? The movie "Jaws" was a fruitful distraction that helped French gymnast Henri Boerio reach the Montreal 1976 podium. World Aquatics takes a look at the career-highlight goal for Team Japan water polo player Kai Inoue at the recent world championship. Battling "inner demons" was key to Loh Kean Yew finally winning a badminton world tour title after a three year gap. What does Kaori Sakamoto think of realizing a world championship three-peat in singles figure skating? Who were some of the standout rugby sevens stars in Hong Kong Sevens Series history? Cyprien Sarrazin, Elvedina Muzaferija, Guglielmo Bosca, Nils Alegre, AJ Hurt, Jacqueline Wiles, Stephanie Venier, and Zrinka Ljutic are Alpine skiers with a breakthrough 2023-24 season. Olympians Pal Trulsen and Thomas Ulsrud are included in the World Curling Hall of Fame 2024 class.
A Look At Olympic Sports Stars In Recent News
Judokas Eteri Liparteliani and Temur Nozadze share a special moment with the home crowd at last week's Grand Slam stop in Tbilisi.
Austrian Alpine skier Conny Huetter was left "speechless" after winning her first World Cup downhill overall title, on home soil no less.
Biathlon World offers us Q&A sessions with both of this season's Total Score winners, Lisa Vittozzi and Johannes Thingnes Boe. Olympics: Will Carolina Marin win back her Olympic badminton singles title at Paris 2024? Swimmers Noe Ponti and Sarah Sjostrom win 2023's European Aquatics' 'Swimmers of the Year' honors. Stockholm 1912 champion swimmer Duke Kahanamoku gets a new museum exhibition in Huntington Beach on his surfing exploits. Who were Nordic combined's season-end award winners? Can Brazilian star archer Marcus D-Almeida have his "moment" at Paris 2024 this summer? Diver Matty Lee recovers from surgery. Spaniard Alberto Gonzalez Garcia and Ecuadorian Elizabeth Bravo were the big risers in Olympic qualification after the latest World Triathlon Cup stop. Olympic champion weightlifters Hidilyn Diaz, Zhou Zhihui, Wang Zhouyu, Chen Lijun, and Neisi Dajomes all face a severe final test to make it to Paris 2024. Portugal's Montebela Aguieira becomes a center for prospective Olympic canoe sprinters-in-training. The World Sailing Show: Will it be either Australian Matt Wearn or Briton Michael Beckett emerging as Paris 2024's ILCA 7 champion? ITF: Who are the current 'movers and shakers' on the junior tennis circuit so far this season? Is 2024 the 'time to shine' for Kenyan long-distance runner Emmaculate Anyango, with the cross-country championships a first test? A change in training and coach, plus a solid start indoors, has sprint hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela 'dreaming of bigger days to come' in 2024. Mathias Gidsel, Henny Reistad, Elias Ellefsen a Skipagotu, and Lena Grandveau are the 'World Players of the Year' in handball for 2023. What has multi-Olympic rower Rumyana Neykova been up to since setting a world-best time in 2002? What impact might a world figure skating championship at age 40 by Deanna Stellato-Dudek have for others watching? Team Great Britain's sports shooter Seonaid McIntosh talks Olympic inspiration, Tokyo 2020 disappointment, and more with ISSF. What does Team Dominican Republic soccer star Edison Azcona think of making it to Paris 2024? "The Olympics is a whole different level." Former college basketball phenom Jimmer Fredette is headed to Paris 2024 in 3x3. Which possible 'iconic moments' does FIBA's Jeff Taylor want to see in this Olympic basketball summer? Tokyo 2020 Olympian Tri Bourne helps share the story of beach volleyball's 'most unique partnership'. "I just have to keep fighting and it will come." Road cyclist Sam Bennett looks to regain the form that saw a breakthrough performance a few years back. Retired speed skater Joey Mantia meets some local Belgians on an inline skating outing. Meanwhile, fellow Team USA speed skate Conor McDermott-Mostowy has a 'cracker of a conversation' on the BBC's LGBT Sports Podcast. Team Ireland equestrian show jumpers Cian O'Connor, Darragh Kenny, Daniel Coyle, and Shane Sweetnam 'are looking stronger than ever' after a key victory in an Olympic season. Elite fencer Despina Georgiadou has something to say about the qualification system for Paris 2024... Panam Sports: London 2012 champion fencer Ruben Limardo has big, golden dreams for Paris 2024.
Olympic Sports Athletes' Social Media Highlights
Aurelien Giraud poses for Numeroâ.
Rebeca Andrade goes black for swimwear.
Robbie Manson lets it hang in Tawa.
Hello, Alica Schmidt!
Venus Williams turns it up with heels.
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