'Against all odds', Anastasiia Temirbek and Team Ukraine appear at the World Surfing Games.

"Once, holding my breath underwater, I fainted for a moment and immediately was taken from the pool",  boxer Oleksandr Usyk recalls.

Eliud Kipchoge's world-record Berlin marathon win even further cements the immense success he's had in the distance, marking 15 victories in 17 tries.

Meanwhile, a new star emerges in women's marathoning as former 800-meter runner Tigist Assefa takes an impressive Berlin win.

​Shot put legend Valerie Adams is ready to share her "authentic" story in the Made for Gold documentary.

Legacy Award: Sprinter Andre de Grasse is a Black Canadian 'Athlete of the Year'.

Go 'behind the scenes' of runner Jake Wightman's 1500 meter world title.

"We never forgot we two were from Africa." Runners Derartu Tulu and Elana Meyer set to reunite after their famed 10,000 meters tussle at Barcelona 1992.

Emma Twigg, Mindaugas Griskonis, Niels van Zandweghe, and Benjamin Pritchard are elected as World Rowing Athletes' Commission members.

Badminton World checks in with the rising Wen Yu (Wendy) Zhang, recently making a mark with a win against a Top 20 player.

Was Sochi 2014 gold medalist and recently retired NHL ice hockey star P.K. Subban 'ahead of his time'?

Ana Barbosu's seventh-place in the recent European Gymnastics Championships all-around was both "satisfactory and promising".

More International Gymnast: Martina Maggio credits 'sisterhood' for Team Italy's overall success at those European Championships.

Not "appropriate as a role model", Olympic medalist Henrik Stenson loses his Swedish Golf Federation relationship.

Former Team New Zealand rugby sevens Portia Woodman has apparently adjusted well to the 15s game.

Olympians Phil Dalhausser and April Ross take the 'Phil and April's Beach Volleyball Camp' on the road.

How did a brunch help save swimmer Cate Campbell's life?

Rio 2016 swimmer Soren Dahl romantically linked to a high-profile U.S. football player?

Former Team USA backstroker Presley Bard Anderson diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.

Alpine skiing champion Aksel Lund Svindal unfortunately has a new challenge: testicular cancer.

Two-time Olympian Neymar may still be Team Brazil's signature soccer star, but does he now have more support on the field?

Revolt? What is going on with Team Spain's women's soccer squad?

Basketball star Luka Doncic and his mother get tangled in a dispute over trademarks.

Maki Takada and Team Japan's Tokyo 2020 basketball success led to 'post-Olympics sadness'. Can a good Women's World Cup run help?

Track cyclist Lara Gillespie is back on...well, track...as she looks ahead to Paris' world champs and beyond.

Fractured elbow, no problem...cycling road racer Annemiek van Veuten sure is a bionic woman...

Mentally broken': A pre-race police incident derails star Mathieu van der Poel's championship road  championship plans. 

Fellow cyclist Rien Schuurhuis makes history representing Team Vatican (!) at a world championship.

Dallas Voice: What has Olympic freestyle skiing medalist Gus Kenworthy been up to since retirement?

​Olympian and tennis great Roger Federer's playing career ends in 'tears of happiness'.

Team Ukraine taekwondo athletes Mariia Labuzova, Renata Pdolian, Andrii Chumachenko, Mykhailo Korsak, and Danyll Babloniuk receive a visit in Italy from IOC president Thomas Bach, alongside Ukrainian fencing champion Olga Kharlan and Refugee athlete Mahdia Sharifi.

Fencer Nick Itkin shares thoughts on coping with the end of his Olympic experience at Tokyo.

Shaul Landy: Meet the Munich 1972 race walker...and Holocaust survivor.

Can Ferdinand Omanyala turn long-distance running powerhouse Kenya into a "sprinting nation"?

Team Canada shot putter Brittany Crew is still reckoning with her "hardest experience" at Tokyo 2020.

Count sprinter Andre de Grasse as another athlete looking to be 'more than an athlete' with the launch of a signature wine.

Olympians Ese Brume (long jump), Tobi Amusan (sprint hurdles), and Blessing Oborududu (wrestling), along with para powerlifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo inducted into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame.

Team USA's 18-year-old Amit Elor celebrated her landmark wrestling world championship...with her coach on her shoulders.

Will Tokyo 2020 long jump champion Greg Rutherford make another Olympic bobsled run?

​The Women's Sports Foundation is set to honor Olympians Elana Meyers Taylor (bobsled, Wilma Rudolph Courage Award) and Dawn Staley (basketball, Billie Jean King Leadership Award) alongside tennis great Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian (Champion for Equality Award) in its Annual Salute, co-hosted by Olympian Julie Foudy (soccer).

Olympic gold medalist Antony set to become Team Brazil's 'third most expensive soccer player'.

Team USA looks to the future with half of its Women's Basketball World Cup squad making a global championship debut this fall.

After Tokyo 2020 'heartbreak', rower Sanita Puspure has focused on a doubles opportunity as she still process 2021.

Tereza Vobornikova continues her rise in biathlon with her upcoming first season 'amongst adults' on the senior circuit.

Rising badminton player Saloni Mehta knows the Covid-19 pandemic hindered her training, but eyes global events nevertheless as she gets back on track.

Reigning bantamweight Irish boxing champion Sara Haghighat-Joo wins a new continental crown...for Sierra Leone.

The Red Bulletin looks at Olympic champion Kristian Blummenfelt, who has "rewritten what is possible in triathlon", but still has a major goal in Kona.

Can Italy become the first nation to win both men's and women's volleyball world championship titles in the same year since 1960?

Forward Mandeep Singh hopes Team India can 'focus on sticking to its plans and its basics' as it looks to host the upcoming field hockey World Cup.

"De Lor au Cristal": Mark the calendar for Alpine skier Alexis Pinturault's autobiography due October 19th.

Who will challenge themselves in a training weekend with speed skater Nils van der Poel and Alpine skier Hans Olsson?

"It's been more than I could have ever imagined." Jason Kubler exults in his Davis Cup experience with Team Australia.

Swim legend Michael Phelps entertains a conversation with jailed rapper Young Thug.

Olympians Emily Breeden (swimming), Margie Dingeldein (water polo), and Christen Press (soccer) headline 2022's Stanford University Hall of Fame inductees...featuring an all-female class.

Will superstar Peter Sagan end his road cycling career if he wins a world title this weekend?

Would-be Rio 2016 champion road cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten suffers another high profile crash.

Can slalom skateboarder Isa Ruiz keep at the top all the way to Los Angeles 2028?

Kalani David: The surfing and skateboarding worlds lose an accomplished athlete.

Surfer Cherif Fall 'is fighting hard' to represent Team Senegal on the global stage, including this week's World Surfing Games.

Sarah Potomak officially rejoined Team Canada ice hockey after a five-year break to help win a world championship...and has eyes on the next Olympics now, too.

Ice hockey's Meghan Duggan and cross-country skiing champion Marit Bjoergen make plans for the New York City Marathon.

Refocusing his training on full routines was key to Loran De Munck's medal success at the recent European Gymnastics Championships.

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (2015)
A Quick Film Review

Well, this was certainly one long overdue task...watching Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, the 2016 documentary from writer / director Deborah Riley Draper on the experience of Team USA's 18 Black American athletes at the Berlin 1936 Olympics., currently available on Hulu, Amazon Prime and other platforms. And what a shame it took me so long, for it's both a celebration of these athletes and a stark reminder of the, well, stark circumstances of the times.

Narrated by actor Blair Underwood, Olympic Pride proves especially noteworthy with its focus on all 18 members of the team, including those *other* Black athletes - those 'who weren't Jesse Owens, the track & field star celebrated for his four gold medals that belittled Adolf Hitler's aim of Aryan dominance at those Games.

It was that potential to counter Hitler that pushed the Americans to ultimately not boycott the Games. And the subsequent irony of fair and open treatment by the German public to the competing Black Americans - in direct contrast to segregation realities back in the United States - is well documented by Riley Draper.

Despite the general understanding of Jim Crow-era life in the U.S., it's hard to realize today the daily struggle Black Americans faced then, and star athletes were no exception. Archival interviews with Olympic team members James LuValle and Archie Williams, and with family members of John Brooks, Tidye Pickett, and Louise Stokes puts their personal experiences leading into, during, and post Olympics into compelling perspective.

Unfortunately, what some of the members had hoped would be a "blow to racial prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic" didn't materialize, as some members faced racially-inspired indignities from team officials in Berlin, and when back home, the American media honed its lens solely on Owens, to the neglect of the other Black athletes and their successes This, despite a tally of 14 total medals won by the 'Black Eagles'.

Olympic Pride also offers a wealth of footage that takes the viewer through those pre-Games deliberations on boycott discussions to life on the SS Manhattan voyage to Germany and then to Olympic action itself. For an Olympics fan, watching such rarely-seen film of non-Owens events is a treat.

What's also a treat is the breadth of interviews Riley Draper secured beyond the athletes' families. Surviving spectators from the 1936 Games, as well as the great 'get' of would-be Olympic Jewish-German high jumper Gretel Bergmann provide contrasting perspectives of the German outlook of the Olympics.

And a plethora of recent Team USA Olympians and figures offer their comment in support of their forbearers, including Isaiah Thomas, Joanna Hayes, Terrence Trammell, Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, Tommie Smith, and Anita DeFrantz. A poignant surprise is catching Burrell's son Cameron, filmed a few years before his premature death in 2021.

Olympic Pride offers an indelible look at a key moment in Olympic and Team USA history, and is must to understand the drama of Berlin 1936. I couldn't have been more thankful to finally enjoy it - and to better appreciate the full contingent of the 'Black Eagles'.

Olympic Pride's featured subjects are Dave Albritton (high jump), John Brooks (long jump), James Clark (boxing), Cornelius Johnson (high jump), Willis Johnson and Howell King (boxing), Jimmy LuValle (400 meters track), Ralph Metcalfe (100 meters track), Art Oliver (boxing), Jesse Owens (sprints and long jump), Tidye Pickett and Fritz Pollard, Jr. (sprint hurdles), Mack Robinson (200 meters track), Louise Stokes (100 meters track), John Terry (weightlifting), Archie Wilson (400 meters track), Jack Wilson (boxing), and John Woodruff (800 meters track).

Boxer Oleksandr Usyk visits his home in eastern Ukraine, partly liberated from the invading Russians.

Will Team Kenya's 'Hit Squad' boxers return to 'fame and glory' at Paris 2024 and beyond?

Team USA basketball (and 3x3 basketball!) stars fill out the All-WNBA First Team honors.
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Is the European style of game to blame for NBA stars Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, and Giannis Antetokounmpo not making it to the EuroBasket semis?

Vanity Fair: At home with Olympian and basketball star LeBron James.

Double Olympic gold medalist and NBA basketball legend Michael Jordan (and his Chicago Bulls jersey) sets another record.

The family of jailed basketball star Brittney Griner receives a presidential visit.
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Retired biathlon star Kaisa Makarainen begins a new role within the sport.

Triathlete Vasco Vilaca shares an odd, dangerous encounter with a seal while training.

Can cyclist Leung Wing-yee finally finish a World Road Racing Championship race on her third try? 

Meanwhile, a recent survey finds that a significant number of women professional road cyclists struggle with a gender pay gap.

Rising field hockey star Sanjay is 'elated' to be recognized for his efforts this year, but credits his team.

Curler-turned- curling referee Marta Pluta wins a World Academy of Sport scholarship.

The CEV Volleyball Gala honored European volleyballers Kamil Semeniuk and Isabelle Haak, and beach volleyball teams Tanja Huberli & Nina Brunner and Anders Mol & Christian Sorum.

Triple Olympian Kim Bui reflects on her recent retirement from gymnastics with International Gymnast.

'Surprise' Olympic champions, Team Canada's women's rowing eights crew looks to prove their skill at the worlds this week.

FloWrestling: Seven facts and figures on Jordan Burroughs' seven global wrestling titles.

Alpine skier Piera Hudson's snub from Team New Zealand for Beijing 2022 still stings.

Olympic BMX rider Brooke Cain opens up on her mental health struggles - and why 'suicide prevention is so important to her'.

Figure skater Ilia Malinin's historic quadruple axel happened in relative obscurity.

With "nerves of steel", rhythmic gymnast Darja Varfolomeev scored a historic win for her adopted country: "It's a very nice moment for me and for all of Germany".

The Canadian Olympic Committee looks back on the career of its recently retired four-time Olympic freestyle skier Chloe Dufour-Lapointe.

Triple Olympic swimming medalist Mark Tewksbury is "very touched" to attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral with Canada's official delegation.

Will swimmer Zaneta Alvaranga 'take over the mantle from (Alia Atkinson)' to represent Team Jamaican swimming at Paris 2024?

"I've just been me." Team Great Britain soccer star Beth Mead talks being LGBTQ within women's soccer.

What is tennis great Roger Federer's legacy?

Three world championships in one month cements Pauline Ferrand-Prevot as the preeminent women's mountain biker today.

Despite a breakthrough season, veteran javelin thrower Kara Winger stands by her decision to retire.

European Athletics announces its Male and Female European Athlete of the Year nominees.

Sprinter Noah Lyles talks breaking Michael Johnson's world record with...Michael Johnson.

Could infamous Mexico City 1968 sprinter Tommie Smith win a National Book Award?

Quickly relive Kevin Mayer's decathlon world record from 2018.

Rising sprinter Israel Olatunde 'dreams big' after his recent exploits during the European Athletics Championships.

Maxime Grousset strolls along the Atlantic.

Justine Dufour Lapointe is on top of the world.

Scotty James enjoyed the weekend.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes a break in Mykonos.

Kamil Stoch is a (Team Poland) volleyball fan.