The Star Of Olympic Sports In The News...
Meanwhile, gymnastic champions Oleg Verniaiev and Lidia Podkopayeva join boxer Wladimir Klitschko in urging Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for help in supporting a ban on Russian Olympic participation.
Runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen has big ambition. "My main goal is to be the best runner that ever existed."
Current rising badminton players Kim Won Ho and Kim Hye Jeong have a unique similarity - both have mothers in the international circuit as well.
Buoyed by indoor success this season, top-ranked archer Katharina Bauer focuses on outdoors and the "new things coming up in 2023".
"But I am desperate to change the color of the medal this time." Can boxer Lovlina Borgohain win a home gold at the upcoming worlds?
More Team India boxing as veteran Mary Kom looks for one last major tournament this year before an 'upper age limit' forced retirement.
And more women's boxing as Rio 2016 champion Estelle Mossely returns to amateur boxing with sights set on a home Olympic appearance in 2024.
How did the Youth Olympics 'help propel' the career of table tennis star Sun Yingsha?
Andrew Blaser reflects on his skeleton World Cup season after becoming a rare publicly LGBTQ athlete:
FIG checks in on the three teams that have already secured Olympic qualification in men's team gymnastics competition: Great Britain, China, and Japan.
Veteran Vanessa Ferrari returns to training with a thought toward a fifth Olympic Games at Paris 2024.
Five-time Olympian Alia Atkinson leads a group of fellow swimmers teaching youth the sport in Jamaica...where access to pools is lacking.
Long-distance swimmers Daniel Wiffen and Felix Auboeck take up synchronized swimming (sort of).
"I still really enjoy rowing." Retired Team Sweden Olympian Lassi Karonen reflects on his career and post-competition life.
Team Philippines' beach volleyball pair Cherry Ann Rondina and Jovelyn Gonzaga receive 'major' recognition from local sportswriters.
ITF: Get to know Bulgarian Adriano Dzhenev, ready to break into the top 20 junior tennis rankings.
Retired Olympic champion curler Eve Muirhead gets a special new role for the next Youth Olympics.
Olympian Sofia Papadopoulou is the 'first sailing coach to take part in the Women in Sport High Performance Pathway' program that targets gender equity in coaching.
Avoiding coaching her former training partners, taekwondo great Maria Espinoza instead focuses on the para-taekwondo team in Mexico as her next challenge. (in Spanish)
Henri Schoeman's 'emotional return' to elite triathlon continued with a "fairytale" win last weekend.
Atlanta 1996 Olympian Grant Hill is 'enthusiastic' about the potential Team USA squad for the upcoming FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Meanwhile, a pair of sneakers from two-time basketball gold medalist and NBA legend Michael Jordan may set a record mark at auction.
Jimmer Fredetter has brought 'Jimmermania' to the 3x3 basketball circuit...with Paris 2023 in sight.
Chung Pan Justin Cheng's return to Team Hong Kong's ice hockey team was a success with a 'historical' international medal.
What was it like to make the 'first boulder movie ever' with sports climbing star Adam Ondra?
Discover 'a day in the life' of Team Portugal judoka Catarina Costa.
Biathlon World has some questions to get us to know former junior champion Endre Stroemsheim.
FEI: Henrik von Eckermann's equestrian jumping performance with mount KIng Edward at Herning 2022 is 'great performance' to remember.