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A Little Roundup 12.18.23

12/18/2023

 

Recent News and Headlines Featuring Olympic Sports Athletes

In Style: Naomi Osaka is "more sure of herself than ever before" upon the eve of her tennis return.
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The ATP Tour announces its 2023 ATP Award winners, including stars Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Janik Sinner, and more.

Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu may pass on the Australian Open next month, but certainly has Paris 2024 on her mind.

How flexible are you compared to tennis champion Novak Djokovic?

Short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun (Lim Hyo-jun) feels the heat on Chinese social media.

SFGate offers some reason for San Francisco Giants baseball fans to be excited about Tokyo 2020 Olympian Jung-hoo Lee's arrival next season.

Meanwhile, Beijing 2008 bronze medalist John Gall is named the new president of USA Baseball: "I am humbled and privileged".

Who will be FIFA's 'best' male and female soccer players of 2023? We'll find out January 15...

Laia Aleixandri and Lucia Garcia write for The Players' Tribune on *not* playing for Team Spain at the recent FIFA World Cup and how that came to be.

"It is something magical, though, with the Olympics." Champion soccer player Julie Foudy talks Paris 2024 vs the next World Cup with CNN.

Four-time Alpine skiing Olympian Aksel Lund Svindal talks of the Games' ability to inspire in the latest Olympic Review.

Team Ukraine's recent mixed relay biathlon junior success has caused sights set on Milano Cortina 2026. (in Ukrainian)

"Clunky"? Count The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw as not a fan of The Boys in the Boat film on Team USA's Berlin 1936 rowing champions.

Champion New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko looked for some fellow champion's advice after closing out a disappointing 2023 season.

Tokyo 2020 qualification disappointment has U.S. triathlete Taylor Knibb wary as 2024 approaches.

"Madness" is how skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych describes the IOC's decision to allow Russians and Belarusians at Paris 2024. (in Ukrainian)

Double world champion gymnast Rhys McClenaghan is 2023's RTE Sports Sportsperson of the Year.

Weightlifter Maude Charron, skateboarder Fay de Fazio Ebert, gymnast Felix Dolci, and archer Eric Peters are just some of Team Canada's aspiring Olympians put through the media paces ahead of Paris 2024.

Gymnast Lukas Dauser has a 'soaring level of confidence' after a big 2023 both on and off the mat.

Could we see Team Kenya's 'Ice Lion's ice hockey squad at a Winter Olympics in the (near) future?

World track cycling champion Wong Kam-po looks to... North Korea?...for Hong Kong sporting success.

​Cycling star Tom Pidcock aims to 'prove himself' at the 2024 Tour de France ahead of the Paris Olympics.

Olympians dominate USA TODAY's looks at 'sports' biggest cheats': road cyclist Lance Armstrong, sprinters, Marion Jones and Ben Johnson, modern pentathlete Boris Onischenko, marathoner Frederick Lorz, and figure skater Tonya Harding.

World Athletics: Long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon sure removed any doubts of her career resume with a world-record 2023 season.

​​Jamaican junior triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert makes Bowerman Award history.

For sprint hurdler Kostas Douvalidis, watching Paraskevi Patoulidou's Barcelona 1992 triumph was a "stimulus" for his start in the sport. (in Greek)

Not being on the BBC's shortlist of 'SportsPersonality of the Year' just provides more Paris 2024 motivation for world champion runner Josh Kerr.

Winning the 2023 European Cross Country title has put 'Paris (2024) pressure and glory' onto Team France runner Yann Schrub.

(But he and heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson win 2023 accolades from the British Athletics Writers Association...)

Mackenzie Little has big plans for 2024: both throwing the javelin at Paris 2024 and completing her first-year as a full doctor.

Will Team USA basketball star Draymond Green's on-court dramas finally push his Golden State Warriors to a breaking point this season?

Australian star swimmer Libby Trickett has thoughts on over-parenting and declining participation in Australian youth sports system.

Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen's recent world record performance put his mother in a "state of shock".

SwimSwam: What should Team USA women's swimming fans be watching for in the lead-up to Paris?

A Men's Health look back: Team Italy veteran Ivan Zaytsev looks to "leave the volleyball world in better conditions" once he (finally) retires. (in Italian)
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