Get to know Dhoan Feybi Bezhura, Team Ukraine's 2023 European Games champion. (in Ukrainian)

Retiree Paige McPherson talks with NBC Sports on her taekwondo career, Olympics, and more.

The Refugee Olympic Team's pool of athletes expands by 10 athletes, from taekwondo to shooting, judo, boxing, and cycling.
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Rio 2016 champion judoka Rafaela Silva is the latest 'The Olympic Series' interview by the IJF.

Olympic figure skater and Stars on Mars champion Adam Rippon shares more disappointing insight on road cyclist Lance Armstrong's comments on trans athletes.

Six shooting athletes have been named winners of the ISSF Athletes Committee elections: Damir Mikec and Riccardo Mazzetti for pistol, Cassio Rippel and Petar Gorsa for rifle, and Amber English and Daniele Dispigno for shotgun.

Olympic table tennis medalist Ai Fukuhara's family custody drama entered the news last month.

The New York Times takes a look at the remarkable marathon career of Mongolian Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, who's now looking ahead to a hopeful sixth Olympian.

Do runner Ciara Mageean's and sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke's fourth-place finishes at the World Athletics Championships last week portend podiums in the near future?

After a first world javelin championship last week, Haruka Kitaguchi now eyes the 2025 edition in her home country Japan.

CNN​: Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is 'now embracing the most important cause of all'.

Barcelona 1004 400-meter track medalist Ximena Restrepo officially named to an upgraded position within World Athletics's administration.

​Did you know that 400-meter track world champion Marileidy Paulino was once a handball prospect?

Mountain biker Camile Balanche has an update on her recent hard crash while training in Andorra.

Surfer Connor O'Leary takes a 'backdoor route' to Olympic qualification.

Tennis: Novak Djokovic is 'back in New York and loving it as never before'.

CNN​ looks at Caroline Woziacki and other tennis players who have returned to competition after childbirth and a spell at stay-at-home motherhood.

The New York Times Magazine: For Elina Svitolina and other Ukrainian tennis players, the Russian invasion back home has turned their sport 'into a battlefield'.

​Who are 'women's crews to watch' at the upcoming World Rowing Championships?

Biathlon World takes a look at the photography hobby biathletes Emilien Jacquelin and Emily Dickson have picked up.

Top rhythmic gymnast Darja Varfolomeev 'has surpassed her mother's results and expectations' with her recent world championships triumph.

Relive the World Sailing Championships on World Sailing's 'The Sailing Show' to wrap up August.

How did taking up weightlifting impact the lives of athletes in Honduras and Jordan?

Can Rei Higuchi win another Olympic wrestling medal after missing Tokyo 2020?

Alpine skiing champion Lindsey Vonn opens up with USA TODAY about her 'struggles' post-retirement.

​Mikaela Shiffrin, Marc Rochat, Lucas Braathen, and Joan Verdu are just some of the Alpine skiers letting fans peek behind the scenes of their lives through digital media.

Joan Verdu's "The Toughest Challenge of My Life, Part 2"

Programming Note: Games and Rings will be on vacation for Labor Day, and will return on 9/05/23.

Untold: Hall of Shame (2022)
A Quick TV Review

"The clear"..."the cream"...those words entered sports fans' lexicon in 2003 when news broke of arrests at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), which had served as a distributor of performance-enhancing drugs and masking agents to a series of high profile athletes.

Hall of Shame, one of Netflix's most recent additions to the Untold sports documentary series, brings us back to that moment in September 2003 when BALCO's empire crumbled and the training secrets of multiple athletes - including Olympians Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones - began to be revealed.

While Jones doesn't participate in the production, Montgomery certainly does. The two-time Olympian (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000) is front and center, candid about his drive to "know what it feels like to be the greatest at any cost possible". His 'Project World Record' drove him to BALCO's founder Victor Conte, whose work with supplements earned him a sort-of Svengali reputation.

For his part, Conte claims his own ambitions in illicit formulas and treatments - in which the non-medically trained entrepreneur acted as pharmaceutical expert - kickstarted when he witnessed the explosion of power would-be Olympic track sprint champion Ben Johnson showed at Seoul 1988.

That Johnson was caught was no matter. Conte just needed to figure out the right 'clear' and 'cream' to better mask the drugs he saw as rampant in Olympic sports. By 2000, he was in that business and receiving interest from a variety of stars, from professional baseball to track & field. Enter Montgomery and Jones. And what would eventually be an enduring and shameful moment in Team USA Olympic sports when Jones, a would-be five-time Sydney 2000 medalist, saw her BALCO-fueled house of cards finally crumble.

What to make of Conte? Today, after serving time on only two of the 42 counts originally charged against him, he's contrite about BALCO's past and forthright about his subsequent work helping uncover drug use. But is that a smirk seen along with his self-professed 180-degree turn? Montgomery might have said it best: "that's something you can never take away from a hustler. the hustle"​.

Iyana Martin Carrion was the Most Valuable Player at the 2023 FIBA U19 Women's Basketball World Cup.

Casey Phair became the youngest-ever FIFA Women's World Cup player, at age 16.

Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson get serious in a photoshoot.

Michael Vogt takes to the water for some fun.

Oleksii Sereda found a good sunset.

Garnine Muguruza hangs out in the Côte d’Azur.

Kiril Milov gives a little waterfall flex.

The 2023 UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Championships ended today in Bath, England. This was the 62nd edition of the championships since 1949 and the seventh time to be held in England (Aldershot 1958, London 1973, 1981, and 2009), Sheffield (1994), and Millfield (2001).

Competition was held across seven modern pentathlon events: men's and women's individual, team, and relay, plus a mixed relay. Unique to this edition was the 90-minute format of the sport - to be used for Paris 2024 - along with Olympic qualification spots available for the top three individual men and women. The Laser Run World Championship, begun in 2015, was held concurrently as well at this edition.

Congratulations to the champions! A quick recap of the modern pentathlon winners is below. Complete results, including for the laser run portion, can be found at uipmworld.org.

​2023 World Modern Pentathlon Champions