What's New With Olympic Sports Athletes?
Olymics.com: Get to know Polina Buhrova, a top-ranked junior badminton player who's rise coincides with the conflict in her home in Ukraine.
Polina Buhrova (Jnanesh Salian/BWF)
FINA.org checks in with artistic swimmer Miyako Tanaka: Seoul 1988 memories, working as a sports psychologist, and more.
With a 'long apprenticeship' in the sport, taekwondo world champion Omar Salim relishes following in his father's championship footsteps.
Kaillie Humphries still has peak competitive fire as she and the Team USA bobsled team look to a new season of challenges this winter.
South African Danisha Patel is not just a top table tennis player, but a double major in biokinetics.
Olympic rowers Aifric Keogh and Eimear Lambe 'dare to believe' in outreach to schoolchildren in Ireland.
Now having "finally made it", gymnast Adem Asil revels in his first world championship medal...a gold.
Fulfilling 'a dream', Beauty Dungdung is ready for her senior debut with Team India field hockey.
Retiring road cyclist Aafke Soet turns her attention to helping others battle eating disorders.
New world triathlon champion Leo Bergere "can't believe" his title, a win he's been chasing a long time.
Meanwhile, Alex Yee's and Georgia Taylor-Brown's mutual second-place finishes at the world finals may cement their positions to still challenge through Paris 2024.
Long-time teammates Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney are now partners as they eye women's luge doubles this season for the first time.
Remember Alpine skier Nina O'Brien's hard crash at Beijing 2022? She's back on the slopes this season.
How has Aleksander Aamodt Kilde become 'the master of consistency'?
"Everyday was a challenge", but 2022's been a 'breakthrough' season for diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix.
U.S. Open junior tennis champ Alex Eala makes the cover for Vogue Philippines.
Beach volleyball players Esteban and Marco Grimalt are just one example of family members finding international success for Team Chile in 'less traditional sports'. (in Spanish)
Speaking of beach volleyball...did you know that Croatian soccer World Cup player Ivan Perisic once played on the beach volleyball tour?
Count Team Spain's number one goalkeeper and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Unai Simon as surprised to even being ever called up for the World Cup squad.
Look back at a pre-World Cup interview with Team Australia soccer player and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Riley McGree: Middlesbrough, parmos and lost in Qatar.
Will one of my earliest favorite Olympic athletes, Los Angeles 1984's P.T. Usha, become president of the Indian Olympic Committee?
Race walker Jemima Montag was a double honoree at the Victorian Institute of Sport Awards of Excellence: Performance Lifestyle Award and Award of Excellence.
Softball Olympians Monica Abbott and Maria Soto headline the new additions to the WBSC Athletes' Commission as representatives on the executive and softball boards, respectively.
Can Japanese-born freestyle wrestler Gaku Akazawa make it to Paris 2024 representing Samoa?
Beijing 2008 boxer Azea Augustama arrested for 'threatening to shoot up a gym in South Florida'.
Olympics.com: Swimmer Daniel Wiffen reflects on that Game of Thrones cameo, and more.
Swimming great Kyle Chalmers has two big items left to do on his career bucket list, and feels ready to tackle one of them at the short course worlds next month.
Has 'enigmatic' biathlon star Emilien Jacquelin found a 'new balance' as the season gets underway?
With a 'long apprenticeship' in the sport, taekwondo world champion Omar Salim relishes following in his father's championship footsteps.
Kaillie Humphries still has peak competitive fire as she and the Team USA bobsled team look to a new season of challenges this winter.
South African Danisha Patel is not just a top table tennis player, but a double major in biokinetics.
Olympic rowers Aifric Keogh and Eimear Lambe 'dare to believe' in outreach to schoolchildren in Ireland.
Now having "finally made it", gymnast Adem Asil revels in his first world championship medal...a gold.
Fulfilling 'a dream', Beauty Dungdung is ready for her senior debut with Team India field hockey.
Retiring road cyclist Aafke Soet turns her attention to helping others battle eating disorders.
New world triathlon champion Leo Bergere "can't believe" his title, a win he's been chasing a long time.
Meanwhile, Alex Yee's and Georgia Taylor-Brown's mutual second-place finishes at the world finals may cement their positions to still challenge through Paris 2024.
Long-time teammates Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney are now partners as they eye women's luge doubles this season for the first time.
Remember Alpine skier Nina O'Brien's hard crash at Beijing 2022? She's back on the slopes this season.
How has Aleksander Aamodt Kilde become 'the master of consistency'?
"Everyday was a challenge", but 2022's been a 'breakthrough' season for diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix.
U.S. Open junior tennis champ Alex Eala makes the cover for Vogue Philippines.
Beach volleyball players Esteban and Marco Grimalt are just one example of family members finding international success for Team Chile in 'less traditional sports'. (in Spanish)
Speaking of beach volleyball...did you know that Croatian soccer World Cup player Ivan Perisic once played on the beach volleyball tour?
Count Team Spain's number one goalkeeper and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Unai Simon as surprised to even being ever called up for the World Cup squad.
Look back at a pre-World Cup interview with Team Australia soccer player and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Riley McGree: Middlesbrough, parmos and lost in Qatar.
Will one of my earliest favorite Olympic athletes, Los Angeles 1984's P.T. Usha, become president of the Indian Olympic Committee?
Race walker Jemima Montag was a double honoree at the Victorian Institute of Sport Awards of Excellence: Performance Lifestyle Award and Award of Excellence.
Softball Olympians Monica Abbott and Maria Soto headline the new additions to the WBSC Athletes' Commission as representatives on the executive and softball boards, respectively.
Can Japanese-born freestyle wrestler Gaku Akazawa make it to Paris 2024 representing Samoa?
Beijing 2008 boxer Azea Augustama arrested for 'threatening to shoot up a gym in South Florida'.
Olympics.com: Swimmer Daniel Wiffen reflects on that Game of Thrones cameo, and more.
Swimming great Kyle Chalmers has two big items left to do on his career bucket list, and feels ready to tackle one of them at the short course worlds next month.
Has 'enigmatic' biathlon star Emilien Jacquelin found a 'new balance' as the season gets underway?
Emilien Jacquelin (IBU)
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