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A Little Roundup 01.24.22

1/24/2022

 

A Look at Top Headlines Featuring Olympic Sport Athletes

Get to know two-time Olympic super-G champion Matthias Mayer, the man with two prized gondolas in Kitzbuhel named after him.
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It's history for Great Britain on the Alpine skiing World Cup circuit, courtesy Dave Ryding.

"I don't think it's going to be quite the typical Olympic experience." Ski jumper Kevin Bickner looks ahead to his second Winter Games.

Team USA champion figure skaters chat with People​ on "podium dreams and Olympic prep".

Can curler Denise Dupont secure a rare Danish Winter Olympics medal in her fourth Games?

Should we worry about biathlete Emilien Jacquelin's form leading into Beijing 2022? (in French)

Puerto Rican William Flaherty follows in his brother's footsteps as an Olympic Alpine skier, after his successful cancer treatment. (in Spanish)

Cross-country skier Hannah Halvorsen is set for her first Olympics, two years after brain surgery.

Two-time Olympic Alpine skier Laurenne Ross showcases her painting as an Olympian Artist-in-Residence for the Olympic Agora Beijing 2022 program.

Can Choi Min Jeong and Lee Yubin keep South Korea an Olympic short track speed skating powerhouse with rival nations strengthening?

"How to eat and train like a top athlete": The Irish Mirror checks in with modern pentathlete Natalya Coyle's daily regimen.

LGBTQ Olympic swimmer Michael Gunning gets a cover feature from Pride Life magazine: "Swimming is a life skill and should be accessible to everyone".

Speed skater Miho Takagi is "Japan's new Ironwoman", set to compete in five events at Beijing 2022.

Three-time Olympic ice hockey medalist Meghan Duggan has a new, major role supporting women's sports.

Naomi Osaka aims to look for the positives despite another early loss at a tennis Grand Slam.

Mateusz Sochowicz set to return to Beijing 2022's luge track, where he was victim to a training accident in the fall.

Rivvia Projects: Tokyo 2020 surfer Julian Wilson launches a clothing line.

London 2012 basketball gold medalist Kevin Love joins the Blindsided podcast to talk mental health and experiencing public panic attacks.

Meanwhile, basketball 'Dream Team' member John Stockton feels the repercussion of going down a misinformation rabbithole.

Laura Deas hopes to be "hardened for battle" as she looks to continue Team Great Britain's Olympic skeleton success at Beijing 2022.

Add American Samoa's Nathan Crumpton to the list of dual Summer and Winter Olympians, as the skeleton racer heads to Beijing 2022 after sprinting at Tokyo 2020.

And add Alexandra Burghardt as well...she'll be a Beijing 2022 bobsledder after a Tokyo 2020 track sprinter turn. (in German)

And...ditto fellow bobsledder Montell Douglas, who becomes Team Great Britain's first dual female Summer/Winter Olympian, returning to Beijing after a 2008 sprint appearance..

Tokyo 2020 Olympian Maike Diekmann is "proud to be helping lead the way" for Namibian rowing.

Snowboarder Belle Brockhoff has her sights firmly on a gold medal in her third Winter Olympics.

Will a private halfpipe help Scotty James secure a snowboarding medal at Beijing 2022?

Want to learn more about - and support - snowboarder Max Parrot's fight against cancer? "Max: Life as a Gold Medal" is available now.

World champion Lucas Eguibar heads to his third Winter Olympics, competing in honor of his once-fellow-pro snowboarder brother.

Team USA's Nordic combined team features two members of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program.

Rio 2016 Olympian fencer Monica Aksamit has a brief star turn on reality television with Joe Millionaire.

How did freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy keep in shape in recovery from Covid-19? Bodyweight squats!

"Navigation comes naturally" for Team USA freestyle skier Alex Hall.

Catch up on YouTube with Tokyo 2020 Olympic sport climber Adam Ondra's attempt at an historic route.

Two-time Olympic canoeing medalist Marcus Cooper Walz (Paris 2024 Spanish flag-bearer?) gets a training profile on CanalSur. (in Spanish)

Tokyo 2020 champion  Neeraj Chopra and Rio 2016 medalist Julius Yego join multiple-medalist Steve Backley to talk all things javelin.

Olympic race walker Tom Bosworth hasn't looked back since coming out publicly seven years ago.

The New York Times: Tokyo 2020 champion Kristian Blummenfelt is the lead "guinea pig" for a strengthening data-driven triathlon team from Norway.
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Hiroko Maisuke (The New York Times)

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