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A Little Roundup 01.09.23

1/9/2023

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

London 2012 champion boxer Oleksandr Usyk has a new year's wish for "victory" and "peace" in Ukraine.
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Oleksandr Usyk
Bobsledder Justin Kripps joins the Off the Podium podcast to chat Cool Runnings, Australia, and more.

Royal-blood equestrian rider Zara Tindall missed Rio 2016, but has eyes on making it to another Games.

Team Austria gymnast Selina Kickinger has big goals for 2023, including qualifying for Paris 2024.

Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas still have Olympic gold dreams after falling short in mixed doubles tennis at Tokyo 2020: "We will keep trying".

Tennis.com: Tokyo 2020 Olympian 'Hubert Hurkacz is a nice guy who isn't finishing last'. 

A rising leader of Team France judo, Romane Dicko wants gold at Paris 2024. (in French, paywall)

U.S. Air Force's World Class Athlete Program athletes with eyes toward Paris 2024 represent a variety of sports, including boxing, modern pentathlon, fencing, track & field, shooting, water polo, and wrestling.

Ski jumper Halvor Egner Granerud jumps on the Erling Haaland meditation celebration bandwagon...

Gauthier Mvumbi, the "Shaquille O'Neal of team handball', works with the real deal to promote the sport.

Dylan Schmidt's breakthrough World Championships title was one highlight of the year in trampolining.

What does retired star Arnd Pfeiffer think of the current biathlon season so far?

"Finding balance is the most important thing in my life." Vogue Hong Kong features freeskier Eileen Gu.

Skateboarder Cody French has Paris 2024 dreams despite battling a 'mystery illness'.

Olympic fencer Nzingha Prescod took her skills to the classroom in New Rochelle recently.

GQ Sports on YouTube: What are 10 things hurdler Sydney McLaughlin 'can't live without'?

Intrigue within Team Poland as long hurdler Sebastian Urbaniak and long sprinter Jakub Krzewina have an altercation...and sprinter Ewa Swoboda's home? (in Polish)

Mondo Duplantis' World Championships pole vault world record wins Track & Field News' 'Men's Performance of the Year' for last season...

...and Mondo gets another honor, as he's named AIPS' 'European Sportsman of the Year', alongside women's counterpart Alexia Putellas (soccer).

Steeplechase Mahiedine Makhissi-Benabbad, 'one of track & field's villains', retires.

How has fatherhood given surfer Kolohe Andino a 'new lease of life'?

How did photographer Shaun Botterill capture that image of soccer super star Lionel Messi, the most liked Instagram post ever?

​Tokyo 2020 rugby sevens Olympian Greg O'Shea opens up about mental health struggles: "...I'm in convulsions of tears...".
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Team Chile's field hockey captain Fernando Renz knows the squad will face "huge games" at the upcoming World Cup, but is confident they'll do 'their best'.

Helsinki 1952 swimming champ Joan Harrison-Breetzke has her Olympic medal recovered after a theft.

Team Japan's Rie Kaneto gives back to her sport through swimming lessons to the next generation...

...as does Team USA's Tokyo 2020 gold medalist Zach Apple.

World number four Chou Tien Chen thinks 'fans can expect better' in 2023 from the badminton player.

Triathlete Alistair Brownlee to bring 'an athlete perspective' to the British Olympic Foundation.

Will a partner swap help some of Team Germany's top beach volleyballers confirm Paris 2024 plans?

Tokyo 2020 rower Matt Rossiter has focused his water sports dreams in another direction, as he joins sailing great Ben Aislie's America's Cup crew.

Matthieu Androdias and Hugo Boucheron are World Rowing's '2022 Men's Crew of the Year'.

"I am going to be okay with time." BMX rider Hannah Roberts resets after an injury-plagued end to 2022.

Road cyclist Mark Cavendish's robbery ordeal intensifies in a trial where all suspects aren't accounted for.

Meanwhile, fellow cyclist Ivan Sosa is the latest to find himself on the wrong end of an assault incident.

Taekwondo athlete Jack Woolley is quick to acknowledge the team effort that has lead to his success.

​Ending 2022 with a first-ever career World Cup podium, Alpine skier Paula Moltzan is 'invigorated' for the remainder of the season.

The moment looms large for Alpine skier Mikaea Shiffrin as she nears sole ownership of a key milestone.

'A portrait of a modern ski racer': Catch up with how Lucas Pinheiro Braathen has prepared for the 2022/23 Alpine season.

​Speed skater Brittany Bowe has 'big plans for the future', despite 2023 being a light season for her.

"Now I want to improve myself, develop myself..." Speed skater Jutta Leerdam finds success in the start of a new season following lots of personal change.
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Jutta Leerdam (ISU)

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