Checking Out Olympic Sports Stars On Social Media
Johannes Hoesflot Kalebo found time for a holiday break.
Well...hello, seaside Anna Ryzhykova!
Sergiy Popov rinses off Rio.
Teddy Riner shoots his shot.
Adam Siao hangs out in Paris.
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Catch Up On Olympic Sports Athletes In Recent Features
Charlize Moerz once thought she didn't have a chance to qualify for Paris 2024, but the gymnast has done it, and early, too.
What has life been like over the past years for Ukrainian Atlanta 1996 gymnastics champion Lilia Podkopaeva? (in Ukrainian)
Off the Podium podcast asks Australian sport climber Oceania Mackenzie what to expect in Paris this summer, and more. Australian Michael Hooper is the latest rugby star to try his hand at sevens with an aim at Paris 2024. Middle blocker Agnieszka Korneluk shares the 'aspirations' of Team Poland this summer in women's volleyball at Paris 2024 with Volleyball World. Tennis champion Roger Federer heads to college this summer, as a commencement speaker. Some of Team Great Britain's top track & field Olympic hopefuls get a spotlight in a new documentary. Citius Magazine talks 2024 mindset...and world record goals...with sprinter Shericka Jackson. Middle-dstance runner Georgia Despollaris still has an eye for soccer despite track getting her time now. (in Greek) NCAA: Track & field legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee talks 'lessons learned on the way to athletic dominance'. Javelin champion Neeraj Chopra is headed to almost-mythological status at home in India if he can repeat an Olympic gold medal win. Hurdler Sarah Lavin offers the next generation some inspiration with a visit to a primary school back home in Limerick. Sprint hurdles champion Colin Jackson has high hopes that Paris 2024 is a fruitful one for Team Great Britain's track & field stars. Tokyo 2020 sprint champion Marcell Jacobs hopes "radical change" in training will prove doubters wrong. Adele Nicoll's drive to "be a professional athlete" kickstarted during the Covid-19 pandemic and has her on the cusp on being both a bobsled and shot put Olympian. Bobsledder Cynthia Appiah highlights the financial stress many athletes are under as they target elite sporting careers and Olympic ambitions. Track cyclist Anna Meares chats with water polo player and fellow Olympian Rowie Webster on her new role as chef-de-mission for Team Australia at Paris 2024. Team Ireland boxer Amy Broadhurst looks across the sea for options to compete at Paris 2024. Refugee taekwondo star Kimia Alizadeh's saga away from Iran continues with a move toward Bulgaria. What are NBC Sports' 'top ten moments in Olympic soccer history'? Team GB looks at kayaker Joe Clarke's 'secret to success' in Olympic paddling. Is Canadian curling great Brad Gushue treating the current worlds and this season as his last? Olympics: Get to know Paris 2024 skateboarding aspirant, 14-year-old Lily Erickson. A 'heart-to-heart' conversation led Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes to reunite as beach volleyball partners, and toward Paris 2024 as top contenders. So...what's that I hear about an injury to beach volleyball star Andy Mol? He has an update... Equestrian Andrew Hoy has 'no intention of slowing down anytime soon' despite approaching a ninth Olympics this summer. Team Great Britain's sports shooter Amber Rutter may be expecting a baby this month, but still targets Paris 2024 competition. Norwegian triathlon stars Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden have varying approaches to a 2024 season 'filled with anticipation and expectation'. Naoki Mizunuma and Katsuhiro Matsumoto are set to lead Team Japan in swimming at Paris 2024. How does star swimmer Siobhan Haughey keep 'floating above the pressure'? Marco Odermatt and Laura Gut-Behrami topped the top earners lists in Alpine skiing this season. What's in the future for Emilien Jacquelin as he reflects on an up-and-down season with Biathlon World. Wait...didn't Australian basketball star Lauren Jackson retire...twice? âLos Angeles Times: Retired Team USA star Sue Bird 'is still not used to being described as a retired basketball player'. 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.
A Look At Olympic Sports' Stars In The News
Judoka Nikoloz Sherazadishvili talks more comfort at his new weight class with JudoTVâ.
Rio 2016 Team USA Olympic basketball player DeMar DeRozan is having 'complicated conversations with friend and peers'.
Alysha Koloi's diving exploits at the recent worlds earned her 'emerging athlete' honors as well. Will equestrian star Shane Rose recover from concussion in time to make the Summer Games? It takes a champion to know...field hockey star Eddie Ockenden thinks Team Australia has a real chance for gold this summer at Paris 2024. Double Olympian Ryan Getzlaf is set to make a third Winter Games...this time on Team Canada's ice hockey management team. Say it isn't so...track cycling champion Christos Volikakis sees his Rio 2016 results in upheaval. Hong Kong's Ceci Lee Sze-wing may get her preferred track cycling event at Paris 2024...all due to a uniform color mixup. Alex Ferreira might have quit freestyle skiing a year ago, but now has had a perfect 2024 World Cup run. Team USA goes 'woman to woman' with surfer Carissa Moore in an exclusive interview. Vitaly Mandzin's biathlon season had ups and downs, which gave him pointers "on what needs to be worked on further". (in Ukrainian) Who's been making a move up the Olympic qualification rankings for beach volleyball lately? Marathoners Connor Mantz and Cooper Young may be 'typical friends', but they're friends headed to Paris 2024 together. It just might have been an direct message on Instagram that spurred runner James Preston to a remarkable 800-meter personal record. 2023 might have been a tough season, but long-distance runner Eilish McColgan still has medal hopes for Paris 2024. Citius Mag: Is high school long sprinter Quincy Wilson 'the next big thing'? A key recent marathon win has Team Zimbabwe's Tendai Zimuto hopeful for momentum toward Olympic qualification. World Athletics: Get to know Dutch sprinter - and social media star - Lieke Klaver. ISU pays respect to outgoing Team Norway speed skating stars Sverre Pedersen and Havard Lorentzen. Olympics: Swimmer Rikako Ikee is hoping for a 'happy ending' to her return from leukemia this summer. Rio 2016 champion wrestler Erica Wiebe says goodbye to her championship career. Champion wrestler Iryna Kolyadenko recounts an escape from Kyiv with her family to Sport24. (in Ukrainian) Briane Harris: A champion's doping suspension 'rocks curling'. "I felt my heart skip a beat." Team Mexico gymnast Ahtziri Sandoval relishes Olympic qualification. New African Games triathlon champion Nick Quenet is right back at training, with Paris 2024 in mind. Star triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee share some of their 'swim mishaps' for Tri247. Kayaker Luuka Jones' Paris 2024 experience - her fifth Olympics - will be more special now that she's recovered from a long Covid spell. 41-year-old âSharath Kamal is still king of Indian table tennis...and just might make it to a fifth Olympics. "It's a pretty incredible feeling." Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrrin picks up where she left off with a successful return from injury. âGet an early look at Team Great Britain's Paris 2024-qualified boxers. Around the Rings: Get to know history-making Cameroonian Refugee Team boxer Cindy Ngamba, now headed to Paris 2024. Olympic Sports Stars Making News...
Which Olympic sport athlete will win the 94th AAU James E. Sullivan award as the 'most oustanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level in the United States'?
Alyson Annan, Savita, and Luciana Aymar are just some of the stars recognized by International Hockey Federation for International Women's Day.
'Ferocious, relentless, and unyieldling', basketball star Rudy Gobert has something to prove this year. Team Turkey's volleyball star Eden Erdem gets honored with a statue in Istanbul. Biathlon World has 'five burning questions' for Team Austria's Anna Gandler. What 'advice for women in leadership' does Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry offer? Archer Ane Marcelle dos Santos hopes to continue representing her community through another Olympics appearance. Get 'face to face' with short track speed skater Park Ji Won with ISU. Weightlifter Mattie Rogers' "soul-crushing injury" sees her Paris 2024 hopes die. Meanwhile, Cook Islands' Luisa Peters recounts her start in weightlifting through two Olympics for IWF. Congrats to gymnasts Nina Derwael, Valentina Georgieva, An Chang Ok, Charlize Moerz, and Ryu Sunghyun on their Paris 2024 qualification! Are future women's beach volleyball stars from Qatar? Mexico's Kenia Lechuga is World Rowing's 'rower of the month' for March 2024. Team France's Laetitia Guapo has big hopes for the future of 3x3 basketball post-Paris 2024. Lindsey Horan talks with FIFA about her hopes for Team USA soccer at this summer's Olympics. "It feels amazing." Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo relishes a 'landmark' mass start cross-country skiing win. More from FIS as freestyle skier Brittany Phelan has "big goals" following a first World Cup ski cross win. Marten Luiten is a rising equestrian dressage star for Team Netherlands, starting in the sport working alongside his parents in the sport. How does goalkeeper Andreas Wolff size up Team Germany's Paris 2024 qualification chances? Who are some of the 'Olympic heroes' of women's sailing? Petra Klingler is the next sports climber to be featured on IFSC Lounge live stream. Badminton star Loh Kean Yew talks with Olympics.com on Cristiano Ronaldo, marriage, and more. Call him 'mailman': Runner Josh Kerr delivers when it counts, and he's eyeing a big delivery in Paris. What's on the mind of long sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke for the fast-approaching Olympics? Gold.
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