Georgian weightlifter Jambulat Khoperia killed on the battlefield while supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

More weightlifting: Tokyo 2020 Olympian Cyrille Tchachet urges support for fellow lifters and prospective Refugee Team members.

Soccer star Lionel Messi is 'the maestro' leading Team Argentina into the World Cup final.

Beijing 2008 soccer Olympian Stu Holden gets a fashion deal with Lotto, unique for a commentator.

Freestyle skiers Fanny Smith and Daniel Maier to both have a bronze medal from Beijing 2022...

What's on Olympic medalist Gus Kenworthy's plate now that he's fully retired from freestyle skiing?

Equestrian dressage rider Aleksandra Maksakova finds a competitive solution for her road to Paris 2024 though Team Palestine.

"It's when I most enjoy playing basketball, when it's with the national team." NBA star Kristaps Porzingis looks ahead to Team Latvia's first FIBA World Cup appearance.

Karlos Nasar: An 18-year-old ends his World Weightlifting Championships experience on a surprising high note.

Diver Tom Daley talks fatherhood, knitting, Greg Louganis, and more in Queerty's 'Dishin' It' Q&A series.

Former Olympic water polo player Waneek Horn-Miller opens up on her push to combat abuse in sport.

Down the Blue Carpet: WTCS champion Leo Bergere discusses his 'long journey' to a surprise major triathlon win.

More triathlon as Rio 2016 champion Gwen Jorgenson announces a return to training with eyes on Paris.

Breaststroker Nic Fink is 'taking a relaxed approach' to this year's World Short Course Championships.

World Athletics: Get to know Team Cuba swimmer Elisbet Gamez Matos.

Team Brazil swim veteran Nicholas Santos closes out his career in style.

Road cyclist Mathieu van der Poel gets a reprieve in his assault charge saga.

Olympic sailor Francesca Clapcich secures a seat in 11th Hour Racing Team for the Ocean Race next year.

IFSC recently talked with sport climber Alannah Yip...go-karting, Sean McColl, Scotland, and more.

Olympic champion Carissa Moore is the first surfer and Hawaiian to win the prestigious Sullivan Award.

Tokyo 2020 champion Takuto Otoguro set for a long-anticipated return to the wrestling mat this month.

11 prospective Olympians are announced as Refugee Athlete Scholarship winners, spanning judo, cycling, taekwondo, track & field, wrestling, and boxing. Congrats and best of luck for Paris 2024!

Munich 1972 400-meter track medalists Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett receive a pardon from the IOC after 50 years.

Inquiring minds want to know...is middle-distance track star Nijel Amos dating a Miss Botswana?

800-meter track legend David Rudisha has a close call while flying home.

Pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis has his sights on flying high all the way through this unique five years of global championships.

Tennis Olympians Iga Swiatek, Barbora Krejcikova & Katerian Siniakova, Maria Sakkari, and Ons Jabeur are amongst the honorees for the season-ending WTA Awards for 2022.

And...tennis superstar Rafael Nadal finally gets a 'Fan's Favorite' honor from the ATP tour.

Alpine skier Marco Odermatt and track sprinter Mujinga Kambundji are Switzerland's top athletes for 2022. (But tennis legend gets a mention, too...)

Team Ukraine's 'most decorated male Olympian'. Yuriy Cheban, is ready to part with his Olympic canoeing medals in support of the fight against the Russian invasion at home.

UK Sport PLx Award: Diver Tom Daley wins another accolade for his social advocacy work.

Rower Caileigh Filmer opens up even more on her 'severe clinical depression' and the impact it has had on her over the holiday period.

"The Way Champs Play": Tennis star Naomi Osaka celebrates the release of her first children's book.

Sport climber Elnaz Rekabi's family home destroyed in Iran after her recent hijab controversy.

IBSF has a quick-fire interview with rookie skeleton racer Peter Makrides.

Canberra's CBR Sport Awards 2022 honor javelin thrower Kelsey-Lee Barber and cyclist Michael Matthews, amongst others.

Long hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis headline World Athletics' 2022 season awards.

Hampton Morris isn't just looking to medal at the World Weightlifting Championships this week, he's looking to have a seat on the Athletes' Commission, too.

Dominican Republic weightlifter Zacarias Bonnat has an inauspicious start to his IWF Athletes Commission membership. (in Spanish)

Natalie McGiffert has gone from Rio 2016 rhythmic gymnast to an Los Angeles 2028 employee. See how.

Team Brazil volleyball star Bruno Rezende recently joined the Tallest Podcast on Earth to discuss Olympic disappointment, growing up in the sport, and much more.

Enjoying "participating in sport every day", Quentin Fillon Maillet remains super motivated for this biathlon season...and beyond.

New 'Sydney WorldPride Rainbow Champion' and swimming legend Ian Thorpe is a surprisingly fairly recent Mardi Gras attendee.

Yung Magazine: Olympian Yusra Mardini has an opportunity to help others, and she's not wasting it.

The 2022 UCI Road World Championships (or, Championnats Du Monde Route UCI) have ended after a week's worth of competition in the southeastern Australian coastal city of Wollongong.

Overall, 11 races were contested, including the highlight elite men's and women's road races and time trials, and equivalent junior and U23 events, and a mixed time trial relay. Team Great Britain topped the medal table in the end with three titles, while Team Belgium led the overall count with six total medals. Team Germany tied Team GB with five overall, while host Team Australis finished next with four.

Complete results and coverage can be found at both uci.org and wollongong2022.com.

See below for the elite race champions. ​Congratulations to all the 2022 UCI road world champions!

And make sure to check out other recent quick recaps of Olympic sports world champions in Games and Rings' 'They are the Champions' posts.

Brandon Wakeling will be the first Indigenous Australian weightlifter at the Olympics since Sydney 2000.

Rower James Rook is on track to be the "first male coxswain to cox an Australian women's eights at an Olympic Games."

Now a team veteran, Estonian Johanna Talihaerm looks to be a role model for newcomers at training camp ahead of the new biathlon season.

​Veteran Italian pairs figure skaters Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise have persevered through tough challenges to look toward Beijing 2022 and a likely last season.

"And I'm very fortunate to say that I'm an Olympian now". Bryson DeChambeau is excited to join the men's golf field at Tokyo 2020.

The International Judo Federation announces its official list of qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020, including Israel's Raz Hershko, star of the 17 Seconds documentary.

Relative newcomer Justine Wong-Orantes made enough of an impression with her serve reception to earn libero selection for Team USA volleyball selection.

Now moving past from a try to reach Tokyo 2020, can London 2012 and Rio 2016 triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee conquer "SUB7" in the Ironman distance?

Now joining an exclusive membership of five-time basketball Olympians, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird headline Team USA's women's team for Tokyo 2020.

​And...the U.S. men's basketball team looks set, too. (Only three athletes with Olympic experience!)

Modern pentathlete Arthur Lanigan-O'Keefe goes out a class act.

Karateka Antonio Diaz is honored to be a flag-bearer at Tokyo 2020's Opening Ceremony, and also represent Venezuela in his sport's Olympic debut.

​Team USA's Ginny Fuchs won't let missing out on the two previous Games - and an affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - stop her from Tokyo 2020 goals.

Can veteran Ryoto Yamagata make it through Japan's national track & field championships to lead the strong 100 meters contingent?

And, can one of these athletes win a rare Olympic medal for their nation in track & field this summer?

Norway's alpine skiing men's team worked on mental toughness through training with the national Coastal Ranger Commando squad.

Team Great Britain's vaunted cycling team is in a new era of guidance, but looking for more of the same Olympic success this summer.

More cycling: Lithuanian track star Simona Krupeckaite is headed to her fifth Olympics, and looking forward to a more relaxed approach.

As a member of Team USA's Olympic soccer team, Rose Lavelle will go from being an Olympics-watching "sports junkie" to an Olympian as role model for the sport.

Australia's Tim Atherton centers the not-uncommon pandemic-fueled havoc that's happened across Olympic qualification over the last year, with baseball hard hit.

If you need a reminder on what the Olympics can mean, for athletes and their communities, take a listen to Bill Dardis of Team Ireland's rugby sevens. "...kids that are going to start playing rugby, maybe, after seeing us play at the Olympics...it's pretty cool..."

Can PR Sreejesh emulate a past hero and bring back Olympic glory to Indian field hockey?
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Shooter Jin Jong-Oh is headed to his fifth Olympics this summer with the opportunity to become the sole leading all-time Olympic medalist for South Korea.

Go behind the scenes of Jake Mitchell's unique, stressful, and ultimately successful, time trial to make USA's swimming team for Tokyo 2020.

Pride Month: Three-time Olympic swimming medalist Jeremie Stravius headlines a group of six French athletes to come out as LGBTQ in the We Need to Talk documentary.

July 23 marks one year to go for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo 2020 celebrated with a private ceremony featuring Olympic hopeful Rikako Ikee, who proposed "Imagine the world in a year: a world where the curtain is set to rise on the Olympic and Paralympic Games".

Will it be the "great comeback festival of sport"?

A little roundup of the many commemorations below from the Olympic sports world. Here's to #StrongerTogether!