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A Little Roundup 06.02.22

6/2/2022

 

Catching Up With Olympic Sport Athletes Headline Features

Double Olympic rower Tetyana Kolesnikova is just one of countless Ukrainian refugees picking up a new life away from their home due to Russia's war.
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Tetyana Kolesnikova Thomson Reuters Foundation/Emma Batha)
Basketball Olympian Pau Gasol chimes in with thoughts on the NBA Finals - featuring fellow Olympians Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguadola, and Jayson Tatum - starting today: "It is going to be a fun one".

More basketball: Olympians Steve Nash, Tony Simms, and Angela Straub are headed to the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame.

​Irish sprint hurdler Sarah Lavin weighs in on the importance of funding to power growth in sport success.

400 meter specialist Quanera Hayes has track ambitions for her son, while promising not to push him.

"What does it take?": Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis' 'visual story' promotion with Eton Shirts launches.

FIS checks in on Team Austria as the Nordic combined squad starts pre-season training in Mallorca.
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Multiple Olympic shirt track speed skating medalist Choi Min-Jeong headlines six athletes named to the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympics' Athletes Commission...

...while Team India's Lovina Borgohain and Shiva Thapa are elected to the International Boxing Association's Athletes' Committee.

"It all feels so surreal" for Irish boxer Gabriel Dossen on his recent surprise gold at the European Boxing Championships.

Boxer Claressa Shields joins judoka Kayla Harrison to promote mixed martials art on the road.

More boxing: Somali Olympian Ramla Ali joins the 'Women's Perspective' podcast to discuss 'her personal journey and her commitments to helping London's most vulnerable women'.

London 2012 Olympic shooter Joydeep Karmakar has a  new target: Team India success at the 2022 Asian Games and 2024 Olympics.

Champion curling skip Niklas Edin confirms plans for a run at another Olympics, to "win more than any curler ever has".

Veteran still rings specialist gymnast Vahagn Davtyan has global medal hopes this year after focusing on a clean base of execution.

Chilean gymnast Tomas Gonzalez participates in a TEDx talk, presenting the dedication and focus he undertook to reach for his sport dreams. (in Spanish, 1:41.49 mark)

The Players' Tribune: 'What really happened to Alexandre Pato', by soccer Olympian Alexandre Pato.

Wrestler Amire Zare has eyes on 'world domination', culminating in a world championship later this year.

Get to know Daria and Dania Obratov, 'ambitious' sisters who have 'dedicated themselves to luge'.

Dazed: Tennis star Naomi Osaka "reflects on the quest for self-worth that transcends trophies".

Joseph Schooling talks with Olympics.com​ on his rivalry-turned friendship with fellow swimmer and GOAT Michael Phelps.

"I'm just excited about my schedule and to get swimming and to get started." Swimmer Summer McIntosh looks to the upcoming World Championships.

Get to know Team USA's Matai Leuta, rugby sevens Olympian with respect for his Pacific Island heritage and an eye on diversifying his rugby experiences.

More rugby sevens: Team Australia's Nick Malouf enjoys the momentum from their latest key win as the World Sevens Series winds down.

Enjoy a look at the 'unique dynamic' between skeleton racers Jackie Narracott and Dom Parsons that powered Narracott to a Beijing 2022 medal.

VolleyballWorld looks back at the start of Latvian heritage in beach volleyball, starting with the "holy trio" of Aleksandrs Samoilovs, Janis Smedins, and Martins Plavins.
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Aleksandrs Samoilovs (volleyballworld)

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    Above: Athens' Kallimarmaro, the site of the 1896 Summer Olympics


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