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A Little Roundup 09.09.21

9/9/2021

 

Happy Pierre de Coubertin Pentathlon Day!

Commemorating the founder of the modern Olympic Games' initiative for a multi-sport event as a "test for an ideal, well-rounded soldier", the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM) established September 9 for recognition of the sports' origins. Thought of as a representation of a soldier needing to swim, fence, ride horseback, shoot, and run from behind enemy lines, the sport has been on the Olympic program since Stockholm 1912.

With its oddball conception and historically spectator-unfriendly, modern pentathlon has often been overlooked as a key Olympic sport, and often seen at risk in the schedule. But it's worked to be adaptive to remain in the IOC's good graces, and I personally find it charming that de Coubertin's specific sport concept is still included. With 125 international federation members, - a diversity of nations, including Great Britain, Egypt, Ireland, South Korea, Lithuania, the United States, Mexico, Hungary, Ecuador, France, Japan, Guatemala, and more appeared at Tokyo 2020 - it's also still undoubtedly an active, global sport. World championships have been held since 1949, with individual, team, and relay events for both men and women. A mixed relay event has also been on the world championship program since 2010, and here's hoping it'll be added to the Olympics as well to further support the IOC's commitment to gender equity.

​#HighFive to modern pentathlon!
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Elsewhere...

Trampoline gymnast Dominic Clarke reflects on his unique Tokyo 2020 experience for Outsports.
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Dominic Clarke (Jamie Squire / Getty Images)
Tokyo 2020: Albert Gines Lopez, sport climbing's first Olympic gold medalist, is still "walking on clouds".

Usain Bolt - track & field superstar, world record-holder, Olympic legend...reggae artist?

More Jamaica: A belated look at Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's essay in The Players's Tribune from last month,  but in time for the Diamond League final. "Track is Jamaican culture. It's tradition."

Letsile Tebogo of Botswana and Udobi Onwuzurike of Nigeria are just two of Africa's up-and-comers leading a track sprint surge.

BMX racer Connor Fields appears on Instagram to say thanks as a progress on his crash recovery.

Tennis superstar Venus Williams is "the icon we all need right now" as Cosmopolitan's featured cover girl for October.

Leylah Fernandez may be one to watch in tennis, but fellow teenager Emma Raducanu also makes her mark as the first-ever man or woman to go from the qualifiers to the semifinals at the U.S. Open.

Weightlifter Hidlyn Diaz gets the anniversary cover of Tatler's Philippines edition for September.

Meanwhile, Tokyo 2020 Olympian Sarah Davies voices positivity for recent structural changes at the International Weightlifting Federation. Is it enough?

Can Mexico qualify a women's team to Paris 2024's indoor volleyball competition? FIVB is helping its development.

Olympic boxers Michaela and Aidan Walsh help the Federation of Irish Sport and EBS with the third annual Volunteers in Sport Awards.

Team Australia's Liz Cambage opens up on the mental stress she's been under, and reveals what was behind her Tokyo 2020 basketball withdrawal.

2021 is definitely a year to remember for road cyclist Primoz Roglic as he wins another Vuelta a Espana to go with his Olympic time trial title.

Gymnast Simone Biles makes a statement on Instagram. "...I can't hear you over my 7 Olympic medals...".

After a second successful Solheim Cup captaincy, Rio 2016 Olympic golfer Catriona Matthew calls time.
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Catriona Matthew (Getty Images)

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