Simon Desthieux skis off...
Kelly Sildaru sits for a session.
Laura Nolte takes a peek at Milano Cortina.
Vanessa James and Eric Radford look back in b&w...
Marco Odermatt is ready to go.
Select Olympic Sport Athlete Headlines From the Week Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and Yaroslave Mahuchikh lead a Ukrainian women's team into the World Athletics Indoor Championships this weekend. Ukrainian boxers get support from the international community for participation at the U22 Europeans.
And Ukrainian canoeists find support, too... Who will win Laureus' 'World Breakthrough of the Year' for 2021? Nominees include Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus, javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, and soccer player Pedri, amongst others. Team Australia announces six recipients of Olympic Scholarship funding for their Paris 2024 goals: boxer Caitlin Parker, weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana, archer Laura Pagelis, wrestler Jayden Lawrence, table tennis player Nicholas Lum, and judoka Uros Nikolic. Steve Sir, Thibaut Vervoort, Sandra Ygueravide, and Prezemyslaw Zamojski are some of the standout 3x3 basketball players from last season that has FIBA talking. Team Great Britain: Gold-medalist curler Eve Muirhead reflects on Beijing 2022 and the 'whirlwind' aftermath few weeks. Can Christa Ramasimong help the hometeam South Africans "make history as a team" at the upcoming Hockey Women's Junior World Cup? Hong Kong's Barcelona 1992 swimmer Robyn Lansam takes a big walk with her son to support mental health initiatives. Stuff features Isabel Wall, a New Zealand rower competing in both para and able-bodied competitions. Three-time gold medalist Kim St. Pierre named to the Order of Hockey in Canada for 2022. Happy St. Patrick's Day: Irish sprinter Brian Gregan can finally see 'a brighter path ahead' as injuries woes are currently behind him and he eyes his first international meet since 2017. Decathlete Cedric Dubler's camaraderie toward a teammate on the Tokyo 2020 track earns him a new sportsmanship award. More Australian athletics: Pole vaulter Kurtius Marschall has hopes of renewed consistency for 2022. Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy talks dedicating her historic FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying-goal to her late father. Ski jumper Robert "The Flying Moustache" Johansson has 'learned to cope' with the disappointment of not medaling at Beijing 2022. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner's predicament in Russia is "the most audacious hostage-taking by a state imaginable". Meanwhile, fellow Tokyo 2020 gold Team USA basketball medalist Zach LaVine shares his reformed diet. Figure skater Cha Jun-Hwan meets his 'ideal type' on South Korea's Running Man program. Two-time Olympic ice dancers and Beijing 2022 medalists Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue look to close out their career at the World Championships 'on another high'. Olympic Sport Athletes on the Rise High jumper Angelina Topic has a deep athletic pedigree, and an eye toward Paris 2024. Annika Sieff is the new women's junior world champion in Nordic combined...maybe just in time for a women's event debut at Milano Cortina 2026? (in Italian) Tereza Vobornikova isn't just a two-time individual gold medalist at the recent biathlon junior worlds, she's also an athlete with a conscious. (in Czech) Finland's Mikaal Jantunen is just one of ten "young players stepping up" in FIBA's European qualifiers.
Olympic Sport Athletes on Social Media Over the Weekend
Carissa Moore takes a breather.
Jason Brown visits a wonder of the world.
Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten take a moment.
Neisi Dajomes, everyone...
Balazs Baji takes a sunset run.
Recent Headlines Featuring Olympic Sport Athletes"Usually when you lose a fight, there's another day." Wrestler Zhan Beleniuk contemplates his new role defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion. Inside the Games looks at the "experiences of life under the Russian invasion" for Ukrainian Olympians, including boxer Wladimir Klitschko and karateka Stanislav Horuna.
Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun: "Good and justice will definitely win over evil and madness". And, Al Jazeera checks in on Ukraine's gymnasts stuck in geopolitical limbo. Alexander Volkov: The fight for Ukraine includes a Seoul 1988 basketball gold medalist. Ukrainian tennis players persevere alongside Russians as the BNP Paribas Open gets underway. More from The New York Times: Marathoner Mykola Nyzhnyk left training in Kenya to serve on the front lines in Ukraine. After a fourth-place finish at Tokyo 2020, 800m runner Peter Bol is determined to 'go one better' at this year's World Championships. Marathoner Brigid Kosgei has 'a dream' to help ensure girls have access to education back home. Meanwhile, long-distance runner Joan Chelimo honors fallen Agnes Tirop with 'Tirop's Angels'. Olympic champion hurdler Karsten Warholm gets a cover story in L'Equipe. (In French, paywall) Sprinter Mujinga Kambundji and sprint hurdler sister Ditaji take a different approach to sibling rivalry. Would-be Tokyo 2020 tennis player Coco Gauff is a voice of reason for her home state of Florida. Irishwoman Kellie Harrington reflects on how her Tokyo 2020 Olympic boxing success has changed others' reactions to her. The 'Kohei Uchimura Final' closes a career for perhaps the best-ever men's gymnast. Tennis champion Naomi Osaka relates to fellow champion Serena Williams' travails at Indian Wells. Rhys McClenaghan on YouTube: "How I Became a Gymnast". Clare Egan, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, Sebastian Samuelsson, and Johannes Kuehn are biathlon's new Athletes' Committee members for 2022 - 2026. Rugby sevens star Gayle Broughton announces a surprise retirement at only age 25. Will freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy partner with diver Tom Daley on fighting homophobia? Tokyo 2020 golf champion Nelly Korda sidelined with blood clot. Double Olympic medal-winning freestyle skier Mathilde Gremaud recounts her emotional Beijing 2022 experience: "I started crying and it didn't stop for half an hour". Olympics.com: Beijing 2022 ice hockey breakout star Juraj Slafkovsky has NHL dreams and inspirations. Can Tokyo 2020 table tennis medalist Doo Hoi-Kem lead Hong Kong to World University Games success? Ysaora Thibus and Race Imboden are a fencing power couple, and are "as photogenic and cool as they are passionate and committed". (in French) After a resurgence in confidence after an eighth-place finish at Beijing 2022, figure skater Loena Hendrickx is looking to perform as "well as possible" at the upcoming Worlds. |
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