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A Little Roundup 02.06.23

2/6/2023

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has strong opinions on the IOC's interest in allowing Russian participation at the Paris 2024 Games.
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Elina Svitolina (Daniel Becerril/Reuters)
Team Canada tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime looks ahead to a special home-nation Laver Cup experience later this year.

​Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios escapes a conviction after a guilty domestic assault plea.

Might freestyle aerial skier Oleksandr Abramenko's career as Ukraine's top winter Olympian be over? (in Ukrainian)

Cross-country skier Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen stirs up controversy within Team Norway on the IOC's willingness to host Team Russian athletes at Paris 2024.

Would Team Belarus athletes who 'openly opposed' President Alexander Lukashenko be at Paris 2024?

Think you know star biathlete brothers Tarjei and Johannes Thingnes Boe?

Team USA figure skaters - and U.S. Figure Skating - wait (im)patiently for their Beijing 2022 medals.

Meanwhile, which figure skaters won the 2023 ISU Skating Awards?

Jade Carey's 'love for the sport' drives her to still do double-time in gymnastics between collegiate and elite competition.

Olympics: How did working with a sports psychologist make Rayssa Leal a better skateboarder? 

Olympic sport athletes abound in Netflix's new Physical 100 reality competition series billed as Squid Game meets Ninja Warrior, including gymnast Yang Hak-seon, skeleton racer Yun Sung-bin, bobsledder Kang Han, volleyballer Kim Ji-han, judoka Jeong Bo-kyeong, marathoner Choi Min-yong, and many more.

Team Italy volleyball star Paola Egonu gets a cover feature in Vanity Fair Italia: racism, anxiety, and using her voice now in sport.

And...Team Japan star Rui Hachimura opens up about his own experience as a bi-racial basketball player growing up in Japan and his career growth.

More podcast as Atlanta 1996 basketball gold medalist Grant Hill joins the Knuckleheads to discuss his career and legacy.

​Road cyclist Giulio Ciccone's 'crowd pleasing' sunglass toss celebration appears here to stay.

Gold medalist boxer Katie Taylor's hopes to have her marquee fight in Ireland hosted at iconic Croke Park gets high profile support.
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Over 50 years of age, surfing legend Kelly Slater embarks on another shot at the Olympics.

Olympic champion triathlete Jan Frodeno is finally close to competition return after an injury-plagued 2022 season.

Olympian Rosey Fletcher and fellow Team USA snowboarders strike a lawsuit against the U.S. Olympic Committee with serious abuse and trafficking allegations.

Is former Olympic swimmer-now IOC member Kirsty Coventry eyeing to replace Thomas Bach?

SwimSwam: Will Team France swimmer Leon Marchand be a world record-holder after Paris 2024?

Swim star Kyle Chalmers has some issues with media treatment, including from former Team Australian Giaan Rooney.

​Meanwhile, fellow swimmer Cody Simpson has his own frustrations with 'certain people trying to tear him down'.

Australian Olympic champion diver Matthew Mitcham opens up about past drug addiction post Beijing 2008. (in Italian)

Curling Canada's pregnancy exemption rules criticized by some Team Canada curlers as too restrcitive.

Will Vincent Kreichmayr and Katharina Liensberger lead Team Austria to a needed Alpine skiing resurgence at next week's World Championships?

Alexandros Ioannis "AJ" Ginnis makes history for Team Greece on the Alpine skiing slopes of Chamonix.

Champion skeleton racer Matt Weston reflects on being coached by the 'GOAT' of the sport.

'Broken leg runner' Manteo Michell looks for a new identification through USA Bobsled.

Team Canada looks back at Carlton Chambers' injury at Atlanta 1996, which led to a special 4x100 sprint relay after all.

The Let's Run podcast has Team USA runners Woody Kincaid and Yared Nuguse on to talk about American records, training changes, and more.

'Happiness' has been the key to middle-distance runner Lucia Stafford's early season success this year.

Track & Field News looks at Sage Hurta-Klecker, now consistently a sub-two minute 800 meter runner.

London 1948 and Helsinki 1952 long jumper Yvonne Chabot-Curtet is now the 'oldest living Olympian'.

Surprise Tokyo 2020 100 meter sprint champion Marcell Jacobs wants to be "remembered as the fastest man on earth".
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Marcell Jacobs (Simone Forlani)

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