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A Little Roundup 09.22.22

9/22/2022

 

Olympic Sports Athletes Are In The News...

Team Ukraine taekwondo athletes Mariia Labuzova, Renata Pdolian, Andrii Chumachenko, Mykhailo Korsak, and Danyll Babloniuk receive a visit in Italy from IOC president Thomas Bach, alongside Ukrainian fencing champion Olga Kharlan and Refugee athlete Mahdia Sharifi.
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Olga Kharlan (r) with the IOC's Thomas Bach (IOC)
Fencer Nick Itkin shares thoughts on coping with the end of his Olympic experience at Tokyo.

Shaul Landy: Meet the Munich 1972 race walker...and Holocaust survivor.

Can Ferdinand Omanyala turn long-distance running powerhouse Kenya into a "sprinting nation"?

Team Canada shot putter Brittany Crew is still reckoning with her "hardest experience" at Tokyo 2020.

Count sprinter Andre de Grasse as another athlete looking to be 'more than an athlete' with the launch of a signature wine.

Olympians Ese Brume (long jump), Tobi Amusan (sprint hurdles), and Blessing Oborududu (wrestling), along with para powerlifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo inducted into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame.

Team USA's 18-year-old Amit Elor celebrated her landmark wrestling world championship...with her coach on her shoulders.

Will Tokyo 2020 long jump champion Greg Rutherford make another Olympic bobsled run?

​The Women's Sports Foundation is set to honor Olympians Elana Meyers Taylor (bobsled, Wilma Rudolph Courage Award) and Dawn Staley (basketball, Billie Jean King Leadership Award) alongside tennis great Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian (Champion for Equality Award) in its Annual Salute, co-hosted by Olympian Julie Foudy (soccer).

Olympic gold medalist Antony set to become Team Brazil's 'third most expensive soccer player'.

Team USA looks to the future with half of its Women's Basketball World Cup squad making a global championship debut this fall.

After Tokyo 2020 'heartbreak', rower Sanita Puspure has focused on a doubles opportunity as she still process 2021.

Tereza Vobornikova continues her rise in biathlon with her upcoming first season 'amongst adults' on the senior circuit.

Rising badminton player Saloni Mehta knows the Covid-19 pandemic hindered her training, but eyes global events nevertheless as she gets back on track.

Reigning bantamweight Irish boxing champion Sara Haghighat-Joo wins a new continental crown...for Sierra Leone.

The Red Bulletin looks at Olympic champion Kristian Blummenfelt, who has "rewritten what is possible in triathlon", but still has a major goal in Kona.

Can Italy become the first nation to win both men's and women's volleyball world championship titles in the same year since 1960?

Forward Mandeep Singh hopes Team India can 'focus on sticking to its plans and its basics' as it looks to host the upcoming field hockey World Cup.

"De Lor au Cristal": Mark the calendar for Alpine skier Alexis Pinturault's autobiography due October 19th.

Who will challenge themselves in a training weekend with speed skater Nils van der Poel and Alpine skier Hans Olsson?

"It's been more than I could have ever imagined." Jason Kubler exults in his Davis Cup experience with Team Australia.

Swim legend Michael Phelps entertains a conversation with jailed rapper Young Thug.

Olympians Emily Breeden (swimming), Margie Dingeldein (water polo), and Christen Press (soccer) headline 2022's Stanford University Hall of Fame inductees...featuring an all-female class.

Will superstar Peter Sagan end his road cycling career if he wins a world title this weekend?

Would-be Rio 2016 champion road cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten suffers another high profile crash.

Can slalom skateboarder Isa Ruiz keep at the top all the way to Los Angeles 2028?

Kalani David: The surfing and skateboarding worlds lose an accomplished athlete.

Surfer Cherif Fall 'is fighting hard' to represent Team Senegal on the global stage, including this week's World Surfing Games.

Sarah Potomak officially rejoined Team Canada ice hockey after a five-year break to help win a world championship...and has eyes on the next Olympics now, too.

Ice hockey's Meghan Duggan and cross-country skiing champion Marit Bjoergen make plans for the New York City Marathon.

Refocusing his training on full routines was key to Loran De Munck's medal success at the recent European Gymnastics Championships.
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Loran De Munck (Thomas Schreyer)

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