"A little bean of a person', 10-year-old Aurora van Ulft is now the 'youngest person to lift double their body weight in Olympic-style weightlifting'. Will a world U18 title help Molly Lukowiak and teammates drive ice hockey popularity in Australia?
What Have Olympic Sports Stars Been Up To On Social Media?
Thomas Krol made an Australian friend.
Jason Brown enjoys some cherry blossoms.
Grace Bullen goes off the mat.
Johannes Vetter gives us a little pinup pose.
Suzanne Schulting works her own photos, too.
A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The NewsAthletics Weekly looks at how some Ukrainian track & field athletes such as runner Yarolslava Yastreb struggle to train while living under the Russian war against their home. Il Foglio has an interview with Team Ukraine's rhythmic gymnast Viktoriia Onopriienko, who is 'stronger than war'. (in Italian, subscription)
'Being teammates just comes naturally' for Team USA curlers - and sisters Tabitha and Tara Peterson. Yahoo: Alpine skiing champion Marco Odermatt is "too empty" to celebrate his record season. Could Alpine skier Sofia Goggia catch Lindsey Vonn's record of eight downhill World Cup overall titles? "We will try." The International Swimming Hall of Fame announces its class of 2023 honorees across swimming (including Michael Phelps, Kosuke Kitajima, Kristy Coventry, and more), artistic swimming, diving (Wu Mingxia), water polo, and more. "Shocked" is how swimmer Katie Douglass felt about a recent NCAA title win. Team Zambia Olympians Stephen Zimba and Patrick Chinyemba (boxing) joined judokas Rita Kabinda and Taonga Soko to help develop sports skills in the next generation. Former Olymoic judoka Kayla Harrison sees positives ahead even after a first, recent MMA loss. Olympic gymnast Joel Plata gives an update following a serious traffic accident that left him with a fractured femur and more. International Gymnast checks in on the 'aesthetics and grit that exemplifies' Brooklyn Moors' routines. Two-time Olympic badminton player Leanne Choo has embraced 'her passion for coaching' with Team Australia as Paris 2024 approaches. Team USA golfer Nelly Korda finds herself a fan of the mixed team event competitions. Here's a look back at GQ Sports' feature on Crystal Dunn, her triumphant return to Team USA soccer and her sights set on this summer's World Cup. "Every place is my happy place, if I can climb it", says sports climber Janja Garnbret. Why is sailing champion Eilidh McIntyre retiring? To go out on top... BBC introduces us to trailblazers Fariba and Yulduz Hashimi, Afghans risking all to pursue road cycling. Team Latvia road cycling athletes Tomas Skujinas and Kristas Neilands, and tennis player Jelena Ostapenko get a reprieve from a funding ban. Tennis star Coco Gauff set for a TV acting debut on All American: Homecoming. Sydney 2000 basketball star Alonzo Mourning has a 'letter to (his) younger self'. Who are some of the elite triathletes to watch with Paris 2024 in mind as the new season begins? Team USA bobsledders earn recognition as the "Citizen Athlete" documentary gets awarded at the Mammoth Film Festival. Olympics: Is this the final season for Team Canada ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier? Get to know Andrew Torgashev, who's preparing for his surprise debut at the World Figure Skating Championships this week. Team Australia rower Georgia Nesbitt is 'in stable condition' after a cycling incident has her in a coma. What race did sprint champion Maurice Greene think was his hardest? Meanwhile, present sprint world champion Fred Kerley looks to Usain Bolt as the 100m 'gold standard'. Looking past a 'catastrophic' injury, Canadian Tokyo 2020 champion Damian Warner has eyes on a decathlon world record. Josephus Lyles talks coming out of his brother and fellow sprinter Noah's shadow. Double Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu stops by the Pivot Podcast to talk Olympics, track, and more. NCAA sprinter Julien Alfred offers thoughts on her career rise in the sport to Spikes magazine. Can Brian Pintado follow in fellow Team Ecuador and Atlanta 1996 champion race walker Jefferson Perez's footsteps with global competition success? A St. Patrick's Day Start For Today's Olympic Sports Stars' Social Media Look!The Star Of Olympic Sports In The News...The Ukrainian Athletics Federation reports that high jumper Roman Polishchuk is one of the latest casualties in the Russian invasion. R.I.P. (in Ukrainian) Tennis player Lesla Tsurenko's recent 'panic attack'? Blame WTA boss Steve Simon's comments on the war in Ukraine from Russia.
Meanwhile, gymnastic champions Oleg Verniaiev and Lidia Podkopayeva join boxer Wladimir Klitschko in urging Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for help in supporting a ban on Russian Olympic participation. Runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen has big ambition. "My main goal is to be the best runner that ever existed." Current rising badminton players Kim Won Ho and Kim Hye Jeong have a unique similarity - both have mothers in the international circuit as well. Buoyed by indoor success this season, top-ranked archer Katharina Bauer focuses on outdoors and the "new things coming up in 2023". "But I am desperate to change the color of the medal this time." Can boxer Lovlina Borgohain win a home gold at the upcoming worlds? More Team India boxing as veteran Mary Kom looks for one last major tournament this year before an 'upper age limit' forced retirement. And more women's boxing as Rio 2016 champion Estelle Mossely returns to amateur boxing with sights set on a home Olympic appearance in 2024. How did the Youth Olympics 'help propel' the career of table tennis star Sun Yingsha? Andrew Blaser reflects on his skeleton World Cup season after becoming a rare publicly LGBTQ athlete: FIG checks in on the three teams that have already secured Olympic qualification in men's team gymnastics competition: Great Britain, China, and Japan. Veteran Vanessa Ferrari returns to training with a thought toward a fifth Olympic Games at Paris 2024. Five-time Olympian Alia Atkinson leads a group of fellow swimmers teaching youth the sport in Jamaica...where access to pools is lacking. Long-distance swimmers Daniel Wiffen and Felix Auboeck take up synchronized swimming (sort of). "I still really enjoy rowing." Retired Team Sweden Olympian Lassi Karonen reflects on his career and post-competition life. Team Philippines' beach volleyball pair Cherry Ann Rondina and Jovelyn Gonzaga receive 'major' recognition from local sportswriters. ITF: Get to know Bulgarian Adriano Dzhenev, ready to break into the top 20 junior tennis rankings. Retired Olympic champion curler Eve Muirhead gets a special new role for the next Youth Olympics. Olympian Sofia Papadopoulou is the 'first sailing coach to take part in the Women in Sport High Performance Pathway' program that targets gender equity in coaching. Avoiding coaching her former training partners, taekwondo great Maria Espinoza instead focuses on the para-taekwondo team in Mexico as her next challenge. (in Spanish) Henri Schoeman's 'emotional return' to elite triathlon continued with a "fairytale" win last weekend. Atlanta 1996 Olympian Grant Hill is 'enthusiastic' about the potential Team USA squad for the upcoming FIBA Basketball World Cup. Meanwhile, a pair of sneakers from two-time basketball gold medalist and NBA legend Michael Jordan may set a record mark at auction. Jimmer Fredetter has brought 'Jimmermania' to the 3x3 basketball circuit...with Paris 2023 in sight. Chung Pan Justin Cheng's return to Team Hong Kong's ice hockey team was a success with a 'historical' international medal. What was it like to make the 'first boulder movie ever' with sports climbing star Adam Ondra? Discover 'a day in the life' of Team Portugal judoka Catarina Costa. Biathlon World has some questions to get us to know former junior champion Endre Stroemsheim. FEI: Henrik von Eckermann's equestrian jumping performance with mount KIng Edward at Herning 2022 is 'great performance' to remember. |
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