Beijing 2022 Starts This Week: Which Olympic Athletes Are in the News?
Snowboarder Jamie Anderson has strong opinions about China hosting the Winter Games, but knows that "at least for this one time in life, the world comes together over sports".
Jamie Anderson (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP, File)
Snowboarder Charlotte Bankes wants to 'repay' Team Great Britain's support...with a Beijing 2022 medal.
Snowboarder Scotty James enters the social entertainment news courtesy his sister's engagement.
Meet Jenise Spiteri...model, content creator, descendant of ice sports legacy, and...Beijing 2022-bound snowboarder for Malta.
NIgeria will be represented at a second Winter Games, after all. Meet cross-country skier Samuel Ikpefan.
"It's not about being the best, it's about trying your best." Cross-country skier Emil Iversen looks to his second Winter Olympics.
Team Great Britain's cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave starts an Olympic column for Idrettspolitikk.
Alpine skiers Audrey King and Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen are "super proud" and "forever grateful" to represent Hong Kong at Beijing 2022.
"Dedication and perseverance": Alpine skier Armand Marchant looks toward his first Winter Olympics after years of surgeries and rehabilitation. (in French)
Luger Jonny Gustafson unknowingly began his Winter Olympic journey 13 years ago at age 11 at a local college's sledding tryout.
Dorothea Wierer, champion biathlete and social media star, reveals 'inner secrets'.
Meet Sean Doherty, Team USA biathlete - and expert woodturner.
Moguls skier Cooper Woods targeted a place on Team Australia at age 13 and now heads to Beijing 2022: "It is the number one event that you can go to in our sport, so I am really excited".
Freestyler Gus Kenworthy gets a second Gay Times cover feature on the eve of his third and final Games.
Bloomberg: China is counting on freestyle skier Eileen Gu during the Winter Olympics.
Chloe McMillan is looking to inspire other Kiwis with her freestyle halfpipe Olympic debut appearance..
At Beijing 2022, Team Canada will feature a brother-sister duo, as freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe returns to the Games alongside snowboarder Darcy.
Eurosport checks in with the new "Team GB Olympic couple to focus on", speed skaters Cornelius Kersten and Emilia Smeding.
Champion speed skater - and chair of the Beijing 022 Athletes' Commission - Yang Yang headlines a group of athletes to highlight anti-'competition manipulation' measures.
Short track speed skater Corinne Stoddard joins an impressive line of Olympians with a connection to Federal Way, Washington.
From one-time NFL hopeful to a Beijing 2022-bound bobsled athlete...meet Team USA's Charlie Volker.
Persistence and stubbornness has brought bobsledder Bree Walker to Beijing 2022 after a self-funded conversion to the sport.
Ice hockey skater and Colgate University student Noemi Neubauerova is "beyond excited" for Beijing 2022, and out to prove Czech Republic can compete.
Can Team China's 'Lady Dragons' improve on their Vancouver 2010 seventh-place finish, using the experience of three returnees from that squad?
Chris Plays may be "the busiest person in Beijing" as he competes in men's and mixed doubles curling, but he's up for it.
Curler Bruce Mouat to Pride of the Terraces: "In an ideal world, it would obviously be held in a place that didn't have these issues, but as an athlete I want to come away with an Olympic medal."
Pyeongchang 2018 ski jump champion Maren Lundby laments weight-related stress in her sport.
"That was pretty good." Billy Demong reflects on his historic Olympic Nordic combined win at Vancouver 2010 for Team USA.
Team USA's John Daly knows he's learned the skills it takes to be a four-time Olympic skeleton racer.
Another Olympic power couple! Skeleton sliders Kim Meylemans and Nicole Silveira will compete - against the clock and each other - at Beijing 2022.
Will figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu land a quadruple axel at Beijing 2022?
Is Team USA's singles skater Alysia Lu the 'Simone Biles of figure skating'?
More Outsports: Lewis Gibson talks coming out as LGBTQ, ice dancing, and partnership with Lilah fear.
Snowboarder Scotty James enters the social entertainment news courtesy his sister's engagement.
Meet Jenise Spiteri...model, content creator, descendant of ice sports legacy, and...Beijing 2022-bound snowboarder for Malta.
NIgeria will be represented at a second Winter Games, after all. Meet cross-country skier Samuel Ikpefan.
"It's not about being the best, it's about trying your best." Cross-country skier Emil Iversen looks to his second Winter Olympics.
Team Great Britain's cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave starts an Olympic column for Idrettspolitikk.
Alpine skiers Audrey King and Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen are "super proud" and "forever grateful" to represent Hong Kong at Beijing 2022.
"Dedication and perseverance": Alpine skier Armand Marchant looks toward his first Winter Olympics after years of surgeries and rehabilitation. (in French)
Luger Jonny Gustafson unknowingly began his Winter Olympic journey 13 years ago at age 11 at a local college's sledding tryout.
Dorothea Wierer, champion biathlete and social media star, reveals 'inner secrets'.
Meet Sean Doherty, Team USA biathlete - and expert woodturner.
Moguls skier Cooper Woods targeted a place on Team Australia at age 13 and now heads to Beijing 2022: "It is the number one event that you can go to in our sport, so I am really excited".
Freestyler Gus Kenworthy gets a second Gay Times cover feature on the eve of his third and final Games.
Bloomberg: China is counting on freestyle skier Eileen Gu during the Winter Olympics.
Chloe McMillan is looking to inspire other Kiwis with her freestyle halfpipe Olympic debut appearance..
At Beijing 2022, Team Canada will feature a brother-sister duo, as freestyle skier Cassie Sharpe returns to the Games alongside snowboarder Darcy.
Eurosport checks in with the new "Team GB Olympic couple to focus on", speed skaters Cornelius Kersten and Emilia Smeding.
Champion speed skater - and chair of the Beijing 022 Athletes' Commission - Yang Yang headlines a group of athletes to highlight anti-'competition manipulation' measures.
Short track speed skater Corinne Stoddard joins an impressive line of Olympians with a connection to Federal Way, Washington.
From one-time NFL hopeful to a Beijing 2022-bound bobsled athlete...meet Team USA's Charlie Volker.
Persistence and stubbornness has brought bobsledder Bree Walker to Beijing 2022 after a self-funded conversion to the sport.
Ice hockey skater and Colgate University student Noemi Neubauerova is "beyond excited" for Beijing 2022, and out to prove Czech Republic can compete.
Can Team China's 'Lady Dragons' improve on their Vancouver 2010 seventh-place finish, using the experience of three returnees from that squad?
Chris Plays may be "the busiest person in Beijing" as he competes in men's and mixed doubles curling, but he's up for it.
Curler Bruce Mouat to Pride of the Terraces: "In an ideal world, it would obviously be held in a place that didn't have these issues, but as an athlete I want to come away with an Olympic medal."
Pyeongchang 2018 ski jump champion Maren Lundby laments weight-related stress in her sport.
"That was pretty good." Billy Demong reflects on his historic Olympic Nordic combined win at Vancouver 2010 for Team USA.
Team USA's John Daly knows he's learned the skills it takes to be a four-time Olympic skeleton racer.
Another Olympic power couple! Skeleton sliders Kim Meylemans and Nicole Silveira will compete - against the clock and each other - at Beijing 2022.
Will figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu land a quadruple axel at Beijing 2022?
Is Team USA's singles skater Alysia Lu the 'Simone Biles of figure skating'?
More Outsports: Lewis Gibson talks coming out as LGBTQ, ice dancing, and partnership with Lilah fear.
Lewis Gibson (George Wood/Getty Images)
And, Let's Take A Summer Break...
Rafael Nadal (Alana Holmberg / The New York Times)
p.s. Tokyo 2020 doubles champs Barbora Krejcikova & Katterina Siniakova keep on winning, too.
Olympic tennis player Sloane Stephens announces a $20,000 educational scholarship fund in honor of her grandparents.
'Harrowing', indeed: Aron Baynes works his way back after a sudden and inexplicable injury during Tokyo 2020 with Team Australia basketball.
More ESPN: Tokyo 2020 Olympic javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and field hockey player Vandana Kataria among honorees for the prestigious Padma Shri award in India.
Will road cycling's "greatest sprinter" Mark Cavendish make a return to the Tour de France this year?
Irish London 2012 champion Katie Taylor set for the first headline women's boxing match at historic Madison Square Garden.
Running stalwart Nick Willis accomplishes a sub-four-minute mile for the 20th consecutive year.
Sprint legend Usain Bolt reflects on what Beijing has meant to him and his own Olympic journey.
Meanwhile, Marcell Jacobs defends his surprise sprint win at Tokyo 2020 against continued skepticism.
Canoeist Lisa Carrington continues to rack up accolades with a third Lonsdale Cup from the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
RTE Sports checks in with how Tokyo 2020 medalist Aifric Keogh is "helping pave the way for the future of Irish rowers".
Olympians Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan, Olaf Tufte, and Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lyu Yang, and Ciao Xiaotong, amongst others honored at the World Rowing Awards.
Tokyo 2020 swimmer Brooke Forde weighs in on the current conversation on transgender athletes, from an in-the-pool perspective.
Can would-be Tokyo 2020 Olympian Siphiwe Baleka mentor a swimmer for Guinea-Bissau for Paris 2024?
Tokyo 2020 champion surfer Gabriel Medina is one of the latest star athletes to prioritize mental health.
Olympic tennis player Sloane Stephens announces a $20,000 educational scholarship fund in honor of her grandparents.
'Harrowing', indeed: Aron Baynes works his way back after a sudden and inexplicable injury during Tokyo 2020 with Team Australia basketball.
More ESPN: Tokyo 2020 Olympic javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and field hockey player Vandana Kataria among honorees for the prestigious Padma Shri award in India.
Will road cycling's "greatest sprinter" Mark Cavendish make a return to the Tour de France this year?
Irish London 2012 champion Katie Taylor set for the first headline women's boxing match at historic Madison Square Garden.
Running stalwart Nick Willis accomplishes a sub-four-minute mile for the 20th consecutive year.
Sprint legend Usain Bolt reflects on what Beijing has meant to him and his own Olympic journey.
Meanwhile, Marcell Jacobs defends his surprise sprint win at Tokyo 2020 against continued skepticism.
Canoeist Lisa Carrington continues to rack up accolades with a third Lonsdale Cup from the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
RTE Sports checks in with how Tokyo 2020 medalist Aifric Keogh is "helping pave the way for the future of Irish rowers".
Olympians Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan, Olaf Tufte, and Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lyu Yang, and Ciao Xiaotong, amongst others honored at the World Rowing Awards.
Tokyo 2020 swimmer Brooke Forde weighs in on the current conversation on transgender athletes, from an in-the-pool perspective.
Can would-be Tokyo 2020 Olympian Siphiwe Baleka mentor a swimmer for Guinea-Bissau for Paris 2024?
Tokyo 2020 champion surfer Gabriel Medina is one of the latest star athletes to prioritize mental health.
Gabriel Median (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
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