Olympic Sport Athletes Making Headlines
"But I have no fear of the enemy." Youth Olympic champion biathlete Kristina Dmitrenko joins the Ukrainian National Guard to defend her country from invasion.
Kristina Dmitrenko (Ukrainian government)
Tennis' world number one women's player Iga Swiatek still has the Ukraine crisis on her mind.
Atlanta 1996 Olympic champions Lilia Podkopayeva and Rustam Sharipov are amongst the Ukrainian gymnasts working to support their countrymen from abroad during the current war.
More International Gymnast: Nuriman Kurbanov is "still at the stage of finding the golden mean" in his rising career.
Champion speed skater Erin Jackson on adjusting to life after her Beijing 2022 success: "...people don't care a whole lot once the Olympics are over".
More speed skating: Sverre Lunde Pedersen launches his 'Best Again' YouTube series following his journey over the next two years of competition.
Olympic medalists Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova join fellow Czech tennis stars Karolina Pliskova and Martina Navratilova as Vogue 'Leaders' cover models.
Double Olympic medalist Takaharu Furukawa feels fit ahead of his return to World Cup archery competition after a long layoff.
Tokyo 2020 champion Joe Choong and other (modern) Pentathlon United athletes ask for decision-making transparency from their sport's governing body, again.
Figure skaters Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker discuss their upcoming Stars on Ice run, upcoming changes in ice dance for the next season, and more.
Statistics, data science, and guitar lessons...Tokyo 2020 figure skating champion Nathan Chen plans a return to Yale.
Fencer Ryan Choi Chun-Yin is back feeling in positive form, and earning pop boy-band praise.
Track cycling superstars Jason and Laura Kenny highlight the Olympic names on the British royal honors roll as they become a knight and dame, respectively.
The soccer stars of the USWNT take the fight for pay equity a big step forward.
Charlotte Kalla's cross country skiing exploits highlight a royal celebration of Sweden's Olympians.
Four-time Olympic judoka Sabrina Filzmoser successfully scales Mount Everest.
"I love how being strong feels." Weightlifter Hayley Whiting eyes the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
Weightlifters Parisa Jahanfekrian and Jekta Jamali join other Iranian athletes defecting to Germany.
Trampolinist Ryusei Nishioka is eager for more after a "brazen show of daring" in his first World Championships last year.
Nordic combined star Mario Seidl catches up with FIS to recap the 2021/22 season, his spring break, his optimism, and more.
Double Olympic basketball champion Candace Parker's career gets a 'Pride 50' look from Queerty.
Triple Olympic champion luger Johannes Ludwig retires.
Road cyclist Biniam Girmay makes history as the first Black African to win a Grand Tour stage. Congrats!
Get to know rising track sprinter Clarence Munyai, courtesy of Team South Africa.
Can sprinter Brianna Lyston put her young career 'setbacks' behind her at this summer's World Athletics U20 Championships?
Cuban national volleyball player Ailama Cese Montalvo faces racial abuse...from her own coach in Russia.
Collegiate sprinter Julien Alfred gets a 'shout out' from the president of the St Lucia Athletics Association.
One to watch: Teenager Gary Martin is the fastest high school-race miler in 57 years.
Team Great Britain: Canoeist Kimberley Woods 'speaks with clarity and candor on a relationship with mental health that has been choppy for as long as she can remember'.
Tokyo 2020 champion rowers Lucy Stephan, Jessica Morrison, Rosie Popa, diver Annabelle Smith, and shooter Elena Galiabovitch amongst the honorees for the Victorian Institute Sports Awards.
Great Britain's 'most-decorated diver' Tom Daley shares thoughts on his "Coming up for Air" memoir.
Despite a 'trophy cabinet bursting with medals', Spanish water polo player eyes to continue through this year's World Championships and possibly Paris 2024.
Atlanta 1996 Olympic champions Lilia Podkopayeva and Rustam Sharipov are amongst the Ukrainian gymnasts working to support their countrymen from abroad during the current war.
More International Gymnast: Nuriman Kurbanov is "still at the stage of finding the golden mean" in his rising career.
Champion speed skater Erin Jackson on adjusting to life after her Beijing 2022 success: "...people don't care a whole lot once the Olympics are over".
More speed skating: Sverre Lunde Pedersen launches his 'Best Again' YouTube series following his journey over the next two years of competition.
Olympic medalists Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova join fellow Czech tennis stars Karolina Pliskova and Martina Navratilova as Vogue 'Leaders' cover models.
Double Olympic medalist Takaharu Furukawa feels fit ahead of his return to World Cup archery competition after a long layoff.
Tokyo 2020 champion Joe Choong and other (modern) Pentathlon United athletes ask for decision-making transparency from their sport's governing body, again.
Figure skaters Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker discuss their upcoming Stars on Ice run, upcoming changes in ice dance for the next season, and more.
Statistics, data science, and guitar lessons...Tokyo 2020 figure skating champion Nathan Chen plans a return to Yale.
Fencer Ryan Choi Chun-Yin is back feeling in positive form, and earning pop boy-band praise.
Track cycling superstars Jason and Laura Kenny highlight the Olympic names on the British royal honors roll as they become a knight and dame, respectively.
The soccer stars of the USWNT take the fight for pay equity a big step forward.
Charlotte Kalla's cross country skiing exploits highlight a royal celebration of Sweden's Olympians.
Four-time Olympic judoka Sabrina Filzmoser successfully scales Mount Everest.
"I love how being strong feels." Weightlifter Hayley Whiting eyes the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
Weightlifters Parisa Jahanfekrian and Jekta Jamali join other Iranian athletes defecting to Germany.
Trampolinist Ryusei Nishioka is eager for more after a "brazen show of daring" in his first World Championships last year.
Nordic combined star Mario Seidl catches up with FIS to recap the 2021/22 season, his spring break, his optimism, and more.
Double Olympic basketball champion Candace Parker's career gets a 'Pride 50' look from Queerty.
Triple Olympic champion luger Johannes Ludwig retires.
Road cyclist Biniam Girmay makes history as the first Black African to win a Grand Tour stage. Congrats!
Get to know rising track sprinter Clarence Munyai, courtesy of Team South Africa.
Can sprinter Brianna Lyston put her young career 'setbacks' behind her at this summer's World Athletics U20 Championships?
Cuban national volleyball player Ailama Cese Montalvo faces racial abuse...from her own coach in Russia.
Collegiate sprinter Julien Alfred gets a 'shout out' from the president of the St Lucia Athletics Association.
One to watch: Teenager Gary Martin is the fastest high school-race miler in 57 years.
Team Great Britain: Canoeist Kimberley Woods 'speaks with clarity and candor on a relationship with mental health that has been choppy for as long as she can remember'.
Tokyo 2020 champion rowers Lucy Stephan, Jessica Morrison, Rosie Popa, diver Annabelle Smith, and shooter Elena Galiabovitch amongst the honorees for the Victorian Institute Sports Awards.
Great Britain's 'most-decorated diver' Tom Daley shares thoughts on his "Coming up for Air" memoir.
Despite a 'trophy cabinet bursting with medals', Spanish water polo player eyes to continue through this year's World Championships and possibly Paris 2024.
Felipe Perrone (FINA)
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