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A Little Roundup 01.04.24

1/4/2024

 

The New Year's First Headline Features On Olympic Sports Athletes...

Xan de Waard and Hardik Singh are named FIH 'Players of the Year' for field hockey. Congrats!

Congratulations to Hardik Singh (IND) for winning this year's FIH Player of the Year.

More details here: https://t.co/KpSQMKl9mj

@hardiksingh008 @thehockeyindia pic.twitter.com/vSFE4TkIMF

— International Hockey Federation (@FIH_Hockey) December 19, 2023

Congratulations to Xan de Waard (NED) for being voted as the FIH Player of the Year.

More details here: https://t.co/KpSQMKl9mj@xandewaard @oranjehockey pic.twitter.com/jC9bob6POu

— International Hockey Federation (@FIH_Hockey) December 19, 2023
Who will be the FIFPro World 11 in men's and women's soccer as the year's best players (as voted by fellow players)?

FIBA takes a look back at the 'record-breaking year of Emma (Meesseman)' in basketball.

What will 2024 look like for the world's best badminton players with Paris 2024 beckoning this summer?

Cross-country skiing legend Petter Northug anoints Swede Alvar Myhlback as a potential future star.

Melissa Lotholz is enjoying renewed success in bobsled...this time as a pilot.

Laetitia Guapo, Hailey van Lith, Michelle Plouffe, Soraya Mohamed, Lili Wang, Brianna Fraser, Cierra Burdick, Sandra Ygueravide, Kiki Flueren, and Noortje Driessen are top 3x3 basketball players who made a mark in 2023.

The Athletic: Swimmer Regan Smith's 'long road back to the Olympic spotlight' includes leaving the Stanford University program.

​Which men are in pole position in judo's different weight classes as the Olympic year begins?

The journalists have spoken: gymnast Simone Biles and tennis star Novak Djokovic are the AIPS Champions of the Year for 2023.

Will top equestrian dressage star Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her mount Dalera get even better this season?

Sid Ali Boudina may have started in rowing 'by accident', but he's on his way to a third Olympics...and is World Rowing's 'Rower of the Month' to end 2023.

How will biathlon star Tarjei Boe continue his strong start to the 2023-24 season after the break?

Olympics: Will table tennis star Fan Zhedong find success at Paris 2024 despite a current 'dip in form'?

Tragedy hits Team Australia cycling as road star Rohan Dennis is charged with murdering his Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins.

Meanwhile, arrests are made in the killing of Ugandan Olympic steeplechaser Benjamin Kiplagat.

Dans Locmelis - new captain for Team Latvia's World Junior Championships ice hockey team - is an athlete to watch in the future. (and don't forget his brother!)

Locmelis brothers are the future of Latvian hockey.□□ What does it mean for them to play together at #WorldJuniors and what goes through their minds when they think of the World Championship bronze?□ @lhf_lv

Read more at https://t.co/ldDBa42X8a ⤵️https://t.co/5wazcilNSH pic.twitter.com/ZWbK4msNbZ

— IIHF (@IIHFHockey) January 3, 2024

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