Skiing great Deborah Compagnoni and figure skaters Noemi Tali & Stefano Frasco help introduce Milano Cortina 2026's Futura logo, chosen after a public vote.

On yesterday's International Transgender Day of Visibility, Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz gets personal.

Ahead of last week's Volta Ciclista a Catalunya where he finished 21st), UCI.org chatted with Richard Carapaz, proud to represent Ecuador on the world stage and promote road cycling.

World champion heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson updates 22 Voices podcast listeners on her injury recovery, and her plans for Tokyo 2020 and Birmingham 2022.

Team Great Britain marathon Olympic trials winner Chris Thompson is a "heart-warming story of hard work and persistence".

Tanzanian marathon hope Alphonce Simbu articulates the difficulties athletes - particularly from farther-flung and less wealthy nations - face as they strive for Tokyo during the ongoing pandemic.

The New York Times looks back with Mikaela Shiffrin on the unique challenges she faced as she embarked on the 2020/21 season.

Jimmy Shea: 2002 Olympic skeleton champion facing severe legal issues.

Rio 2016 medal-winning canoeist Steffi Kriegerstein struggles to recover from Covid-19 in time for Tokyo.

Former Major League Baseball-er Ian Kinsler set to make his Olympic debut for Team Israel this summer.

Can Tan Ya-Ting improve upon her Rio 2016 bronze at Tokyo 2020 and conquer the Korean team in women's archery?
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Speedy "try machine" Jordan Conroy is confident that Team Ireland can qualify for Tokyo 2020 at June's last-ditch qualification tournament for rugby sevens.

Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka talks pole vaulting, Olympics, and Laureus World Sports Awards with Armand Duplantis.

Faster Skier has a nice profile on U.S. Olympic cross country skier Sophie Caldwell Hamilton as she closes her career.

Fresh off scoring "the most important goal" of his career, Juan Carlos Obregon celebrates Team Honduras' qualification to the men's soccer tournament at Tokyo 2020. (in Spanish)

LPGA star Inbee Park reiterates her eagerness to defend her Rio 2016 title after another tour win.

Canadian BMX freestyler Corey Walsh pens a poignant social post and comes out as gay.

More Canada: the CBC checks in with water polo star Krystina Alogbo, who's set to miss her Olympic debut, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.

​Daniel Andre Tande: improvement in his recovery from a much publicized crash in ski jumping.

London 2012 medalist and three-time Olympian Saina Nehwal tells The Olympic Channel that maintaining fitness is the focus goal as she approaches Tokyo 2020 badminton.

European Climate Pact Ambassador, and double OIympic medalist sailor, Hannah Mills talks "Big Plastic Pedge" sustainability with Olympic.org.

Boryana Kaleyn does her part to bring Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics back to the top, as she dominates the conclusion of the first World Cup of the year.

Russian figure skaters showed their dominance at the World Figure Skating Championships this weekend, as they won three of four events and half of the overall medals. Titles went to Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov (ice dance), Anastasia Mishina & Alexandr Galliamov (pairs), and Anna Shcherbakova (ladies, leading a Russian sweep). 

Meanwhile, The New York Times looks at the challenges Black figure skaters face in the sport, and the unque platform they have to address them.

Open water swimmer Marc-Antoine Olivier reviews the last year and looks ahead to Tokyo 2020 and beyond with FINA.org.

Mexico's women's archery team is better poised to make a good run in the Olympics after a strong showing at the Pan American Championships.

Only taking up 49er racing six years ago, Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove overcame youth and relative inexperience to secure an Irish berth at Tokyo 2020's sailing.

​Rio 2016 medalist with Team Serbia's men's basketball, Nikola Jokic is having a banner year with the NBA. The Olympic Channel offers a look.
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Pyeongchang 2018 gold medalist Daniel-Andre Tande, after a serious fall at a world cup ski jumping competition last week.

Artistic swimmer Isidora Letelier is looking forward to the opportunity that Santiago 2023 will provide sport in Chile.
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Austrian madison cyclists Andreas Graf and Andreas Mueller have waited since 2008 for an Olympic opportunity, and they're trying to take the Tokyo 2020 wait in stride.

ESPN.com checks in with some prominent Tokyo 2020 hopefuls - gymnast Morgan Hurd, volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings, diver David Boudia, and soccer player Becky Sauerbruun - as they reflect on the past year that deflected their Olympic dreams.

Swimmer Mark Tewksbury, figure skater Eric Radford, and speed skater Anastasia Bucsis are 'proud to play' in a new children's book sharing Canadian LGBTQ athlete stories.

Taekwondo star Pauline Lopez leads a new campaign to help inspire future sportspeople in the Philippines.

Judoka Sam Chouchi relishes hearing the Belgian national anthem after his gold medal win at the Tbilisi Grand Slam this past week.

Team USA profiles Ariel Torres, who took advantage of pandemic restrictions to focus on getting him closer to qualification in karate's Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020.

Congratulations go to weightlifter Fernando Reis, belated winner of Brazil's first-ever IWF World Championship medal.

He just set the Australian national 1,500 meter track record, but Oliver Hoare may not qualify for the national team for the Olympics.

​More Australia: Jared Tallent, race walking legend retires.

Matthew Mitcham reflects back to the BBC​ on his struggles with drugs and self-acceptance en route to winning diving gold at Beijing 2008.

Meanwhile, can gold medalist Laura Wilkinson really come back at age 43 from nine years of retirement and make an Olympic diving return? She's trying.

​Get to know Australian field hockey star Kaitlin Nobbs in this quick video feature from Watch Hockey (registration needed). She follows many familial footsteps in the sport...

London 2012 triple-medalist swimmer Ryosuke Irie is ready to put behind "struggles during the last eight years" at the home pool of Tokyo 2020.

Canadian swimmer Maggie Mac Neil shows the CBC another pending aspect of pandemic effects on athletes at the upcoming Games: possibly no family support in the stands.

Olympians Sue Bird (basketball), Simone Manuel (swimming), Chloe Kim (snowboarding), and Alex Morgan (soccer) join forces to create TOGETHXR, "a new media and commerce company designed to elevate women's voices around sports". Congrats!

Motivated by watching Rio 2016 as an alternate and by the opportunity to inspire others, modern pentathlete Samantha Schultz looks ahead to an Olympic debut in Tokyo.

Catch up on "The State of Olympic Surfing" with Tokyo 2020-bound athletes Frederico Marais and Caroline Marks.

Maame Biney made a splash in short track at Pyeongchang 2018, but hopes for more at Beijing 2022, with "Anna Digger" constantly at her side to help confront her nerves.

History is made at at the FIS Snowboard Alpine World Championships this week, with Sofia Nadyrshina becoming the youngest snowboard alpine world champion ever and Benjamin Karl the winningest, with their respective victories in parallel slalom at Rogla.

USA Basketball star guard A'ja Wilson pens an emotional and revealing essay in The Players' Tribune on her struggles with depression and panic attacks despite on-the-court successes.

Might we see Major League Baseball star Choo Shin-Soo at the Olympics, now that he's playing for a Korean Baseball Organization team?

Archer Deepika Kumari is the latest featured athlete of R2MI Kreeda's Kreeda 360 campaign supporting India's Tokyo 2020-bound athletes. Get to know all their athletes here.

Rising Irish middle-distance runner Nadia Power is right on track with her plans to make it to Tokyo 2020.

Rio 2016 shot putter Auriol Dongmo has a new child, a new nation, and a new personal best in her own road to Tokyo.

Brazilian beach volleyball champion Bruno Schmidt makes a recovery from Covid-19 hospitalization.

Australian Mark Pollock's bare limbs are a hit at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships. Oi! Oi! Oi!

Karsten Warholm chats with The Olympic Channel on his current training, Usain Bolt, and what he's been up to lately.

Kyodo News: Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi takes a leading positive stance on the prospects of Tokyo 2020.

Add Irish sprinter Phil Healy to the list of athletes voicing reservations on Olympians "skipping the line" on Covid-19 vaccinations. Ditto, say Australian tracksters despite official practice underway.

fie.org: U.S. Olympic medalist Gerek Meinhardt is balancing medical school studies with training for one more Games this year.

Prospective Team USA shooters and boxers train where they can. (I appreciate the moxie in finding where you can go, but why is an abandoned indoor department store approved vs a socially-distant gym?)

World Archery looks at Michelle Kroppen, thrust into leadership on the German team ahead as it looks to solidify ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Double Olympic medalist sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are 2020's honorees for New Zealand's Lonsdale Cup, for their "outstanding contribution to an Olympic or Commonwealth sport".

​Joe Joyce: Rio 2016 boxing silver medalist now puts his hands to more artistic Olympic-inspired uses.

Cross-Country: You would think Russians would be on best behavior alert these days, but...

And the news for Team Russia gets worse, thanks to "ANA poster athlete" Sergey Shubenkov. 

Already the first Canadian to win two individual Olympic gold medals, trampolinist Rosie MacLennan is well poised to make it three this year.

Meanwhile...fellow champion Jason Burnett retires...

Tokyo 2020 features taekwondo star Lee Dae-Hoon, owner of silver and bronze medals and looking for gold in his third Games.

Fencer - and vocal activist - Race Imboden talks with Around the Rings about athlete protests.

Cross country skiing legend Petter Northug receives a sentence in his traffic and narcotic offenses case, and is ready to "take the punishment...and move on in life."

Former jumping national team member Princess Martha Louise looks to continue building equestrian sports presence in Norway.

International team member Leon Draisaitl named German sportsman of the year in a rare boost for the sport of ice hockey.

More ice hockey: Five Rings to Rule Them All podcast features player Meghan Duggan on women's sports, romance on the ice, and more.

Add basketball gold medalist Kevin Love to the list of Architectural Digest features on Olympians' homes.

More basketball: Rui Hachimura is poised to be a star for host Japan at next year's Games, but according to The Olympic Channel, he's focused on the new NBA season first.

Indian table tennis players shares his observations on current life within Tokyo and Japan regarding pandemic concerns and Olympic readiness with ESPN.

Brady Ellison: It's not often you hear of a doping issue in elite archery.

Meanwhile...Sun Yang, surprisingly may be off the hook.

U.S. women's team member Abby Dahlkemper announces an engagement made in soccer heaven.

Field hockey players Sarah Jones and Leah Wilkinson open up to Team GB on their relationship and competing together as they look to Olympic success.