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A Little Roundup 03.04.21

3/4/2021

 
Matthew Mitcham reflects back to the BBC​ on his struggles with drugs and self-acceptance en route to winning diving gold at Beijing 2008.
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Meanwhile, can gold medalist Laura Wilkinson really come back at age 43 from nine years of retirement and make an Olympic diving return? She's trying.

​Get to know Australian field hockey star Kaitlin Nobbs in this 
quick video feature from Watch Hockey (registration needed). She follows many familial footsteps in the sport...

London 2012 triple-medalist swimmer Ryosuke Irie is ready to put behind "struggles during the last eight years" at the home pool of Tokyo 2020.

Canadian swimmer Maggie Mac Neil shows the CBC another pending aspect of pandemic effects on athletes at the upcoming Games: possibly no family support in the stands.

Olympians Sue Bird (basketball), Simone Manuel (swimming), Chloe Kim (snowboarding), and Alex Morgan (soccer) join forces to create TOGETHXR, "a new media and commerce company designed to elevate women's voices around sports". Congrats!

Motivated by watching Rio 2016 as an alternate and by the opportunity to inspire others, modern pentathlete Samantha Schultz looks ahead to an Olympic debut in Tokyo.

Catch up on "The State of Olympic Surfing" with Tokyo 2020-bound athletes Frederico Marais and Caroline Marks.

Maame Biney made a splash in short track at Pyeongchang 2018, but hopes for more at Beijing 2022, with "Anna Digger" constantly at her side to help confront her nerves.
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History is made at at the FIS Snowboard Alpine World Championships this week, with Sofia Nadyrshina becoming the youngest snowboard alpine world champion ever and Benjamin Karl the winningest, with their respective victories in parallel slalom at Rogla.

USA Basketball star guard A'ja Wilson pens an emotional and revealing essay in The Players' Tribune on her struggles with depression and panic attacks despite on-the-court successes.

Might we see Major League Baseball star Choo Shin-Soo at the Olympics, now that he's playing for a Korean Baseball Organization team?

Archer Deepika Kumari is the latest featured athlete of R2MI Kreeda's Kreeda 360 campaign supporting India's Tokyo 2020-bound athletes. Get to know all their athletes here.

Rising Irish middle-distance runner Nadia Power is right on track with her plans to make it to Tokyo 2020.

Rio 2016 shot putter Auriol Dongmo has a new child, a new nation, and a new personal best in her own road to Tokyo.

Brazilian beach volleyball champion Bruno Schmidt makes a recovery from Covid-19 hospitalization.

Australian Mark Pollock's bare limbs are a hit at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships. Oi! Oi! Oi!
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