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A Little Roundup 03.28.24

3/28/2024

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Stars In Recent News

Judokas Eteri Liparteliani and Temur Nozadze share a special moment with the home crowd at last week's Grand Slam stop in Tbilisi.
Austrian Alpine skier Conny Huetter was left "speechless" after winning her first World Cup downhill overall title, on home soil no less.

Biathlon World offers us Q&A sessions with both of this season's Total Score winners, Lisa Vittozzi and Johannes Thingnes Boe.

Olympics: Will Carolina Marin win back her Olympic badminton singles title at Paris 2024?

Swimmers Noe Ponti and Sarah Sjostrom win 2023's European Aquatics' 'Swimmers of the Year' honors.

Stockholm 1912 champion swimmer Duke Kahanamoku gets a new museum exhibition in Huntington Beach on his surfing exploits.

Who were Nordic combined's season-end award winners?

Can Brazilian star archer Marcus D-Almeida have his "moment" at Paris 2024 this summer?

Diver Matty Lee recovers from surgery.

Spaniard Alberto Gonzalez Garcia and Ecuadorian Elizabeth Bravo were the big risers in Olympic qualification after the latest World Triathlon Cup stop.

Olympic champion weightlifters Hidilyn Diaz, Zhou Zhihui, Wang Zhouyu, Chen Lijun, and Neisi Dajomes all face a severe final test to make it to Paris 2024.

Portugal's Montebela Aguieira becomes a center for prospective Olympic canoe sprinters-in-training.

The World Sailing Show: Will it be either Australian Matt Wearn or Briton Michael Beckett emerging as Paris 2024's ILCA 7 champion?

ITF: Who are the current 'movers and shakers' on the junior tennis circuit so far this season?

Is 2024 the 'time to shine' for Kenyan long-distance runner Emmaculate Anyango, with the cross-country championships a first test?

​A change in training and coach, plus a solid start indoors, has sprint hurdler Cyrena Samba-Mayela 'dreaming of bigger days to come' in 2024.

Mathias Gidsel, Henny Reistad, Elias Ellefsen a Skipagotu, and Lena Grandveau are the 'World Players of the Year' in handball for 2023.

What has multi-Olympic rower Rumyana Neykova been up to since setting a world-best time in 2002?

What impact might a world figure skating championship at age 40 by Deanna Stellato-Dudek have for others watching?

Team Great Britain's sports shooter Seonaid McIntosh talks Olympic inspiration, Tokyo 2020 disappointment, and more with  ISSF.

​What does Team Dominican Republic soccer star Edison Azcona think of making it to Paris 2024?

"The Olympics is a whole different level." Former college basketball phenom Jimmer Fredette is headed to Paris 2024 in 3x3.

Which possible 'iconic moments' does FIBA's Jeff Taylor want to see in this Olympic basketball summer?

Tokyo 2020 Olympian Tri Bourne helps share the story of beach volleyball's 'most unique partnership'.

"I just have to keep fighting and it will come." Road cyclist Sam Bennett looks to regain the form that saw a breakthrough performance a few years back.

Retired speed skater Joey Mantia meets some local Belgians on an inline skating outing.

Meanwhile, fellow Team USA speed skate Conor McDermott-Mostowy has a 'cracker of a conversation' on the BBC's LGBT Sports Podcast.

Team Ireland equestrian show jumpers Cian O'Connor, Darragh Kenny, Daniel Coyle, and Shane Sweetnam 'are looking stronger than ever' after a key victory in an Olympic season.

Elite fencer Despina Georgiadou has something to say about the qualification system for Paris 2024...

Panam Sports: London 2012 champion fencer Ruben Limardo has big, golden dreams for Paris 2024.

Rubén Limardo: “Sueño con una medalla en París 2024”. □□

El mejor esgrimista en la historia de Venezuela conversó con Panam Sports acerca de su nueva clasificación a los Juegos Olímpicos de Paris 2024. □□❤️

Haz clic para ver la nota completa ⬇️https://t.co/8pu5obRtJe pic.twitter.com/PAfFI80Me6

— Panam Sports (@PanamSports) March 25, 2024

A Little Roundup 03.21.24

3/21/2024

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

Can Danish canoe marathon champion Mads Brandt Pedersen successfully make a switch to Olympic canoe sprinting?

□️ “I’m training with a lot more high intensity now."

Mads Pedersen has spent the European winter in Australia in his bid for a place at the Olympics □□

Check out what the Danish paddler had to say in the latest episode of our Planet Canoe Podcast □️□ https://t.co/RmDSYL7wzu

— Everything canoe, kayak, and SUP (@PlanetCanoe) March 18, 2024
Is an Olympic medal on tennis star Coco Gauff's vision board, er...note? You bet.

What are some of Team Canada's favorite Team Canada moments?

World Aquatics goes 'inside the minds' of Martina Terre and Unai Aguirre to learn more about top water polo goalkeeping philosophies.

Former junior champion Tomoka Miyazaki's breakthrough senior-level world tour win has the badminton rising star hopeful for bigger things to come.

Meanwhile, Spanish badminton champion Carolina Marin is still 'a force to be reckoned with' despite recent injury setbacks.

Could NBA star Donte di Vincenzo suit up for Team Italy basketball?

Check out Team Brazil gymnast Rebeca Andrade in miniature form!

Get to know open water swimmer Marc-Antoine Olivier in the latest Extraterrien podcast. (in French)

Seven straight Olympics isn't in the cards for star sports shooter Kim Rhodes, but does Los Angeles 2028 beckon for 'the most successful female shooter in Olympic history'?

American cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins sees an "incredible" end to the world cup season with two Crystal Globes.

Jose Larocca may be 55-years-old, but the 'honored equestrian athlete' still has Olympic ambitions.

Fiji-born Eileen Cikamatana is Team Australia's 'new Olympic Amazon'.

Team Ireland's long sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley missed out on Tokyo 2020...which just spurred 'resilience'.

"The Olympics is basically an expression of who you are as an athlete." Triathlete Kenji Nener has hopes to breakthrough with Paris 2024 qualification for Team Japan.

Who are the current leading skateboarders in the Olympic Qualifier Series rankings before the last two stops later this spring?

Can Sofia Raffaeli withstand the 'intriguing challenge' from a slew of fellow elite rhythmic gymnasts at the first real Olympic season test?

Play True Award: Triple skeleton Olympian Ben Sandford honored for his career 'contributions to the anti-doping movement'.

​Which PanAmerican rowers found success at the latest Olympic regatta last week?

IJF's 'The Olympic Champions' series returns with a look at Moscow 1980 champion judoka Robert Van De Walle of Belgium.

How have recent weeks affected the current world rankings in field hockey?

Road and mountain bike cyclist Peter Sagan's road to Paris 2024 gets trickier after more heart concerns.

How is Cody Simpson balancing the demands of elite swimming Paris 2024 hopes with a music career?

​Team Zimbabwe's retired Rio 2016 swimmer Sean Gunn talks Olympics, competition, and coming out as LGBT with Outsports.

An Olympian comes out as gay. https://t.co/uqHZiHoLH2

— Outsports (@outsports) March 18, 2024

Let's Get Social 03.12.24

3/15/2024

 

Stalking Olympic Sports Stars' Social Media

Hannah Taylor has a Mexico break.
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Domonic Bedggood has a cup of coffee.
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Tai Tzu Ying previews Paris.
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Serena Williams is ready for a red carpet.
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Kelly Sildaru poses with a reluctant friend.
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A Little Roundup 03.14.24

3/14/2024

 

Olympic Sports Stars Making News...

Which Olympic sport athlete will win the 94th AAU James E. Sullivan award as the 'most oustanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level in the United States'?

Voting is NOW open for the 94th AAU Sullivan Award! You can cast your vote for □️

Caitlin Clark
David Taylor
Emery Lehman
Frederick Richard
Noah Jaffe
Madisen Skinner

□ https://t.co/yVx9EGUONI

Voting closes NEXT Tuesday, March 19th! pic.twitter.com/HWGWIDiHFu

— AAU Sports (@TheRealAAU) March 12, 2024
Alyson Annan, Savita, and Luciana Aymar are just some of the stars recognized by International Hockey Federation for International Women's Day.

'Ferocious, relentless, and unyieldling', basketball star Rudy Gobert has something to prove this year.

Team Turkey's volleyball star Eden Erdem gets honored with a statue in Istanbul.

Biathlon World has 'five burning questions' for Team Austria's Anna Gandler.

What 'advice for women in leadership' does Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry offer?

Archer Ane Marcelle dos Santos hopes to continue representing her community through another Olympics appearance.

Get 'face to face' with short track speed skater Park Ji Won with ISU.

Weightlifter Mattie Rogers' "soul-crushing injury" sees her Paris 2024 hopes die.

Meanwhile, Cook Islands' Luisa Peters recounts her start in weightlifting through two Olympics for IWF.

Congrats to gymnasts Nina Derwael, Valentina Georgieva, An Chang Ok, Charlize Moerz, and Ryu Sunghyun on their Paris 2024 qualification!

Are future women's beach volleyball stars from Qatar?

Mexico's Kenia Lechuga is World Rowing's 'rower of the month' for March 2024.

Team France's Laetitia Guapo has big hopes for the future of 3x3 basketball post-Paris 2024.

Lindsey Horan talks with FIFA​ about her hopes for Team USA soccer at this summer's Olympics.

"It feels amazing." Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo relishes a 'landmark' mass start cross-country skiing win.

More from FIS as freestyle skier Brittany Phelan has "big goals" following a first World Cup ski cross win.

Marten Luiten is a rising equestrian dressage star for Team Netherlands, starting in the sport working alongside his parents in the sport.

How does goalkeeper Andreas Wolff size up Team Germany's Paris 2024 qualification chances?

Who are some of the 'Olympic heroes' of women's sailing?

Petra Klingler is the next sports climber to be featured on IFSC Lounge live stream.

Badminton star Loh Kean Yew talks with Olympics.com on Cristiano Ronaldo, marriage, and more.

Call him 'mailman': Runner Josh Kerr delivers when it counts, and he's eyeing a big delivery in Paris.

What's on the mind of long sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke for the fast-approaching Olympics? Gold.

Rhasidat Adeleke: ‘Gold, I think everyone wants a gold medal’ https://t.co/qdNO85OXLO

— Irish Times Sport (@IrishTimesSport) March 7, 2024

Let's Get Social 03.01.24

3/1/2024

 

Olympic Sports' Stars And Their Social Feeds...

Happy Birthday, Karsten Warholm...
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...and Reece Prescod!
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Emilien Jacquelin takes a photo.
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Dima Ovtcharov gets cold.
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Hello, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk!
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