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A Little Roundup 04.17.23

4/17/2023

 

Athletes Of Olympic Sports Are Getting News Coverage...

Ukrainian Lillehammer 1994 figure skating champion Oksana Baiul-Farina finds the prospect of Russian athletes competing in the Olympics "so painful" while the current war rages.
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Oksana Baiul-Farina (Henny Ray Abrams/Reuters)
"I want to be as close as I can to getting myself on that team." Rising triathlete Kate Waugh contemplates Paris 2024 for Team Great Britain.

CBC: Ski jumper Alexandria Loutitt 'celebrates her power to inspire'.

Is 19-year-old Aman Sehrawat the 'best wrestler in Asia'?

Retired racer Marina Gilardoni gets a new skeleton assignment with Team Switzerland.

Gymnast Dannell Leyva is set to receive an OUTShine Film Festival honor as his film Clocked nears debut later this month.

Team Great Britain​: Get to know new European gymnastics champion Luke Whitehouse.

Olympic sprint hurdler Sarah Lavin pays 'tribute' to rally driver Craig Breen, after his recent fatal training crash abroad.

Get to know teen long hurdler Ivan Pata, grateful to Team Ecuador and the Olympic Solidarity project for helping him push for either Paris 2024 or Los Angeles 2028. (in Spanish)

Bruce McAvaney Award: Middle-distance runner Ollie Hoare's Commonwealth Games gold medal race was the 'best performance of the year' for Team Australia on the track.

More Team Australia as Beijing 2008 pole vault champion Steve Hooker to receive the Order of Merit for 'services to the Olympic movement'.

Is the marathon where long-distance Team Kenya running star Hellen Obiri will win Olympic gold and set a world record?

"Why not me?" Collegiate sprint hurdler Masai Russell adds her name to the event's 2023 watch list.

Double jumping event threat JuVaughn Harrison credits his mother as a role model for his work ethic.

The New York Times: Was NBA legend and double Olympic basketball gold medalist Michael Jordan a social activist, after all?

Soccer star Lionel Messi, swimmer Yusra Mardini, and Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin are Olympians making the 2023 Time '100 Most Influential People' list.

Luana Alonso: A Team Paraguay swimmer proves that 'B" finals are worth watching, as well.

A shot of swimmer Evangeline Belt makes CNN's 'The Week in 32 Photos' recap.

Is the party over for Team Australian stars in the Olympic Village for Paris 2024?

Modern pentathlete Oktawia Nowacka sees the upcoming European Games on home soil as a prime opportunity to secure Paris 2024 qualification.

It only took 'hard work, discipline and routine, patience, a strong support network and big dreams' for Ali Zein to lead Team Egypt to new heights in team handball.

Team Austria luger Thomas Steu embarks on training for a new season, with a new partner in Wolfgang Kindl after Olympic success with Lorenz Koller.

Olympics reminds us of the intimate Titanic connection Paris 1924 tennis players Richard Norris and Karl Howell Behr have.

Freestyle aerial skiers Ashley Caldwell, Chris Lillis, and Justin Schoenefeld honored as 'Olympic Team of the Year' for their 2022 Olympic win by the state of Utah.

CNN​: Team Cote d'Ivoire rower Franck N'Dri looks to inspire others for 'sporting success'.

Olympic surfing medalist Owen Wright steps away from competition to save himself from possible further 'traumatic brain injury'.
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Owen Wright (Beatriz Ryder/World Surf League)

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