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A Little Roundup 06.03.24

6/3/2024

 

Recent News and Headlines Featuring Olympic Sports Stars

How did Team France's London 1948 rower Roger Lebranchu prepare for his part in the Paris 2024 Torch Relay? (in French)

Roger Lebranchu est le plus ancien athlète olympique français vivant et porteur de la flamme de @Paris2024 aujourd’hui ! □□□

□ À 101 ans, il s'entraîne depuis des semaines pour son relais. Comment ? Avec une bouteille d'eau qui pèse le même poids que la torche ! pic.twitter.com/jUwcsefOfc

— Jeux Olympiques (@jeuxolympiques) May 31, 2024
Team Ireland rugby sevens' Lucy Mulhall takes a break to encourage schoolchildren to 'Dare to Believe'.

Thanks to a push from her sister early in her sports cvareer, Alysha Koloi is now a surprise world champion diver, and an athlete to watch at Paris 2024 for Team Australia.

Carissa Moore was 'scared out of (her) pants' by the waves at Teahuo'o; can the Olympic champion surfer defend her title there?

How is Kirsty Gilmour approaching her third Olympics in badminton? Taking a deep breath....

Why didn't star Christian Pulisic make the possible Team USA men's soccer roster?

Aditi Ashok finished one stroke off the podium at Tokyo 2020's golf competition...can she breakthrough further in Paris despite a 'mixed' 2024 so far?

Making it from Derby to the Paris Olympics with a 'huge following' in breaking, meet 'Kid' Karam Singh.

Tennis: Superstar Novak Djokovic is 'on the brink of even more history' with his progress at the current French Open.

​Triathlete Javier Gomez gets back into shape with a matchup against London 2012 rival Alistair Brownlee looming next weekend.

Sailor Odysseas Spanaki has learned how to have'easier fights' with his sister Ariadne as they head to Paris 2024 as the mixed 470 crew for Team Greece. (in Greek)

CBS News: Team USA swim star Katie Ledecky has some thoughts on the state of anti-doping efforts.

Looking to experience more 'independence', swimmer Benedetta Pilato experiments with a training base change in an Olympic year.

Siblings Ron and Leah Polonsky may have started sport as ballroom dancers, but both are eyeing Paris 2024 as swimmers for Team Israel.

Meanwhile, Laura Stephens once 'hated' swimming...now she's a world champion in the sport and soon a double Olympian.

Brody Malone is back as a Team USA gymnastics star, after a 'catastrophic injury' over a year ago.

Dutch gymnast Eythora Thorsdottir is bringing a magical, spicy, and adventurous' routine to Paris 2024.

Basketball star and Olympic  champion Dwyane Wade gets a broadcast assignment for Paris 2024.

Will Team Canada make do without NBA basketball star Andrew Wiggins this summer in Paris?

The Athletic: Tokyo 2020 Olympian Luka Doncic is on 'the precipice of greatness' in pro basketball.

Kayaker Aly Bull is now 'relishing' the opportunity to be a veteran on Team Australia as she approaches her third Summer Games.

A 'common goal' of Olympic gold is what ties together an 'eclectic' group of Team Australia women's water polo teammates.

Tokyo 2020 champion wrestler Gable Stevenson set to give his NFL football ambitions a real try.

R.I.P. to equestrian event rider Georgie Campbell, as husband and Olympian equestrian Jesse Campbell mourns.

Team USA: How much better can Olympian Lee Keifer get at fencing?

One way that ski jumper Abigail Strate stays calm? Beekeeping...

Re: Drama for Team Australia women's marathon squad for Paris 2024....at least it's good to know much an Olympic opportunity means to athletes.

High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh sees importance in giving 'happy moments' to people in Ukraine.

Team USA sprint star Noah Lyles sure seems to appreciate spending time in Jamaica.

World Athletics: What's the 'path to Paris' for race walker Perseus Karlstrom.

RTE: Remember whenIrishman John Treacy won a Los Angeles 1984 medal in his first marathon ever?

Citius investigates why hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone 'doesn't race more' often.

Team Canada runners Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and Jean-Simone Desgagnes may not be 'inseparable' but you can find them paired up often off the track and in training.

Judoka Nekoda Smythe-Davis, sprinter Bianca Williams, rower Helen Glover, equestrian Charlotte Dujardin, and boxer Charley Davison are some of the athletes profiled by The Guardian as mothers returning to sport as Olympians.

Le Monde looks at Team France judoka Teddy Riner's 'extraordinary ambition'. (in French, subscription)
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