Elina Svitolina (tennis), Yaroslava Maruchickh (track & field), and Olga Kharlan (fencing) grace the cover(s) of Vogue Ukraine's Fall 2023 edition.

Tajikistani-Ukrainian And Atlanta 1996 champion Rustam Sharipov talks with Sport24 on his gymnastics career, ties to Ukraine, and his now life in the U.S. (in Ukrainian)

Can Mana Okamura turn "regrets into motivations" for a strong showing at Paris 2024's gymnastics?

Team USA Los Angeles 1984 gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton struggles against pneumonnia face a "scary setback".

Former world championship team member Kara Eaker announces a retirement and abuse allegations in her collegiate gymnastics career.

Tennis great Serena Williams' new book deal with Random House publisher promises reflections on her 'life and career'.

Newly 26-years-old, tennis champion Naomi Osaka reflects on her birthday.

Team USA luger Chris Mazdzer has strong thoughts on where Milano Cortina 2026's sliding competitions should be held...

Janeth Jepkosgei reflects on her 'rare' move from a middle-distance running star for Team Kenya to coaching.

Middle-distance runner Caster Semenya's The Race to Myself autobiography is due October 31st.

Long hurdler Femke Bol and runner Jakob Ingebrigsten lead European Athletics' end-of-season awards.

Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson gets a unique honor with a track memorialized in her name.

Speaking of Jakob Ingebrigsten...abuse allegations from him and his running brothers against their former coach - and father - rock Norway.

​Open water swimming champion Florian Wellbrock talks 'becoming water' in The Owl Post.

Team Lithuania's other star breaststroker Kotryna Teterevkova makes a big training decision in her path to Paris 2024.

Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir earn 'Order of Sports' honors in Canada after their record five Olympic medals.

Illia Malinin has "no words" for his record performance at Skate America, reaffirming his status as a star in figure skating.

Olympic diving champion Matthew Mitcham opens up about the 'lowest pount in his life' in a special SAS Australia moment.

Will the Native American inventors of lacross be represented as the sport makes its Olympic debut at Los Angeles 2028?

Equestrian show jumper Harry Charles opines on the current state of big money spending in the sport...and almost wearing a suit while competing.

Surfing 'prodigy' Erin Brooks gets a setback for her Team Canada citizenship plans for Paris 2024.

Los Angeles 2028: Count Major League Baseball superstar Bryce Harper as an Olympic hopeful...

Double soccer Olympian and Team South Africa legend Janine van Wyk set for a special career send-off this month.

Rio 2016 Olympic soccer player Ali Krieger inspires gossip curiousity over her split with Ashlyn Harris.

Team Canada soccer legend Christine Sinclair's 'storied career' gets a reflection by CBC.

What was a 'last supper' with key club teammates like for retiring soccer star Megan Rapinoe?

The Guardian: How does Team England's Mary Earp make soccer goalkeeping 'cool'?

Cycling star Tom Pidcock reiterates road race and mountain bike plans for the Olympics nbext year.

Chilean 3x3 basketball star Daniel Arcos makes a statement of inclusivity at the Pan American Games.

Olympics: The Grimalt cousins look to defend their Pan American Games beach volleyball title in the "most important sports event in the history of Chile".

Beach volleyball's Melissa Humana-Paredes and taekwondo siblings Skylar, Tae-ku , and Braven Park have special ties to Chile as they embark on a special Pan American Games experience for Team Canada.

Gwen Jorgensen hopes a late-season schedule change now powers her path to Paris 2024 next year.

Native South African canoeist Pierre Van Der Westhuyzen is one of a few foreign-born athletes that look set to compete for Team Australia's in Paris 2024.

AthleteStories has '10 rare clicks' documenting the career of weightlifting legend Pyrros Dimas. (in Greek)

​Can Team Austria's Lisa Hauser rebound in the 2023-24 biathlon season after a subpar 2022-23?

16-year-old Albert Withen Philipsen was a double junior gold medalist at this summer's World Cycling Championships - in mountain biking and road racing.

Gunner Hammett scored three track titles at this summer's AAU Junior Olympics - at age 11.

Are Team New Zealand's Erice van Leuven, Poppy Lane, and Sacha Earnest the future of women's mountain biking?

Hong Kong fencer Kaylin Hsieh Sin-yan's University Games success has her targeting both the Asian Games and Paris 2024.

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.

Team Ukraine star swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk sees this season as the "most difficult year" in his career. (in Ukrainian)

GQ South Africa: Champion swimmer Chad le los was 'destined to have a story to tell'.

"I am NOT RETIRING!!" Team Australia swimming great Kyle Chalmers does some explaining.

​Team Japan's 'Nadeshiko' women's football team is 'back on the global map' with their performance at the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Grieving over loss was just part of Katrina Gorry's impactful evening in Team Australia's FIFA World Cup quarterfinal win.

And that quarterfinal win? Team Australia's 'Matildas' keep on breaking audience records...

Olympic road racer David Millar gets some heat for his 4x4 love.

"I don't have to choose, do I?" Mountain bike world champion Tom Pidcock sees a future on the road still.

Is Team USA's 'Olympic dynasty' in danger in women's water polo?

Mathis Henno leads a strong French presence on the World U19 Men's Volleyball Championship 'dream team'.

Runner Tim Cheruiyot still has some championship title goals: "If you ask for number one, you will be given number one".

BBC: Get to know Megan Keith, a former orienteering athlete now headed to the World Athletics Championships as a long-distance runner.

Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles practices some manifestation.

Suddeutsche Zietung looks at 'the woes' currently facing javelin thrower Johannes Vetter, still returning from injury that has derailed his elite form. (in German)

Meanwhile, has fellow German javelin thrower Julian Weber figured out the right mental approach to secure a senior global podium place finally?

And more javelin! How did Tokyo 2020 champion Neeraj Chopra help 'lift' all of Indian sport?

Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, hurdler Femke Bol, and runners Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Keely Hodgkinson are four top European athletes to watch at the World Athletics Championships.

Running great-turned-sports administrator Paul Tergat sees lots of potential in Kenya's rugby sevens future on the women's side.
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The Off the Podium podcast has an 'amazing' interview with Olympic triathlete Simon Whitfield.

Also...Solveig Livseth and Lotte Miller are proving that the 'Norwegian method' in triathlon can produce success on the women's side too.

Can tennis legend Venus Williams help others manage through dreaded 'tennis elbow'?

Belgian tennis player Greet Minnen shares the dark side of being a publicly LGBT-out athlete on tour.

Gymnast Andrew Steele adds an all-around element to a surging Irish team at the upcoming worlds.

Whoa...London 2012 boxer Felipe Verdejo-Sanchez is convicted in double murder charges.

Is London 2012 champion Anthony Joshua 'carrying the heavyweight division' in boxing these days?

Team USA B-girl Sunny Choi talks breaking on the latest Keep the Flame Alive podcast.

Olympics: Surfer Griffin Colapinto talks reaching the number one ranking, golf, siblings, and more.

Meanwhile, fellow surfer Ethan Ewing gives fans an update on his 'devastating' injury in Tahiti.

That Liz Cambage incident that caused her stepping down from Team Australia's basketball squad ahead of Tokyo 2020 just won't go away quietly...

Olympic champion basketball-er James Harden makes a striking return visit to China.

Team USA's Montreal 1976 women's basketball team is enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame alongside Dwyane Wade, Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, and others.

Arionas Kolitsopoulos is the first Greek wrestler to finally win a world U17 title, in any class.