Walter Wallberg makes a move.
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Tommaso Marini checks out Hong Kong.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is a promise.
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Olympic Sports Stars Are In The News
Team USA swimming star Katie Ledecky and multi-event track & field star Jim Thorpe receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Olympics once included medal awarding for the arts?
USA TODAY: Basketball star Brittney Griner's 'humanity' is revealed in her Coming Home memoir. Time: 'Fred Richard is Team USA's next Olympic hope for men's gymnastics.' "I was so close to retiring." Gymnast Alice Kinsella recounts drastic side effects from acne treatment. Team USA gymnast Jade Carey speaks with International Gymnast about a "pretty crazy" last few years. Tokyo 2020 champion golfer Nelly Korda is hoping for some of that year's "good juju" to come back in time for a title defense this summer. Will Team Ukraine athletes avoid "provocative actions" with Russians and Belarusians at Paris 2024? Cuban beach volleyballers Noslen Diaz and Jorge Alayo have risen rapidly - and surprisingly - in Olympic qualification ranking, and "will keep on working" to make it to Paris 2024. Casey Kaufholld wants to reach 'Michael Jordan status' within her sport of archery. Evgeny Marusiak looks back on a successful ski jumping season for Team Ukraine with Sport24. (in Ukrrainian) British London 2012 champion rower Anna Wadkins has words of advice for athletes transitioning into retirement. Diver Pam Ware had a 'disastrous' Tokyo 2020 experience. She's rebuilt her confidence. Will Lewis Clareburt become the first Maori swimming Olympic medalist (and break out the 'pukana')? As Team Great Britain's incoming first-ever Black female swimmer, Eva Okaro is 'ready to inspire'. "This is really cool. I want to swim in the Olympics, too!" Get to know Paris 2024-bound Greek swimmer Stergios Bilas. (in Greek) Hong Kong swimmer Camille Cheng knows firsthand the mental toll of elite competition. Congrats! Team USA soccer star Carli Lloyd announces her pregnancy with her first child. 'The best is yet to come' for sprinter Erriyon Knighton as he prepares for Paris 2024. Long sprinter Luka Janezic is the latest featured interview on the Timax podcast. (in Slovenian) Track legend Michael Johnson eyes a new era in track & field promotion with a new league. Defending 100-meter sprint champion Marcell Jacobs hopes a recent 'quiet life' will help his title defense. Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse chats Paris 2024 and 'giving back to the athletics community'. Olympics: Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala looks to 'change' Kenyan running. "I really want to get a medal at the Olympics. It would be much nicer than a world record this year." Javelin thrower Johannes Vetter hopes a frustrating injury-filled last few years are behind him. Long-distance runner Agnes Ngetich turns her attention a possible Paris 2024 podium as the next target after coming close to a world record in the 10k. Favoritism? Former Olympic long hurdler P.T. Usha under fire in her roleas president of the Indian Olympic Association. Team Bahamas sprint hurdler Devynne Charlton offers her world record-setting singlet into posterity. Disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson maybe doesn't feel so much disgrace anymore. Meet the 36 athletes that make up the Olympic Refugee Team for Paris 2024, competing across track & field, judo, swimming, road cycling, canoeing, boxing, taekwondo, badminton, shooting, wrestling, breaking, and weightlifting. Team Spain's Paco Cubeles may have multiple global medals in canoeing, but looks for a first Olympic podium this summer. (in Spanish) Daniel Repacholi seeks to the rare Australian federal minister of parliament to be an active Olympian. Tokyo 2020 road cyclist Masomah Ali Zada has 'dreams of a Refugee Team medal' at Paris 2024. A change in weight division has been a 'weight lifted' for Team India boxer Lovlina Borgohain. Boxer Harry Garside is prepared for all the sacrifices it takes to best prepare for Paris 2024. Daria Bilodid's 'champion mindset' was back on display at the recent European Judo Championships, captured in a special photographic moment. Olympics: Get to know Nikoloz Sherazadishvili, the Georgian-Spanish judoka 'from two nations'.
A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The Recent News
An elite diver who acknowledges a fear of heights? Meet Team Australia's Cassiel Rousseau...
Athletes galore help reveal some National Olympic committee uniforms for Paris 2024.
Breaker Rachael 'B-Girl Raygun' Gunn has been a longtime advocate for the sport...and feels conflicted on its Olympic inclusion. Gymnastics champion Simone Biles reflects on her attack of the 'twisties' at Tokyo 2020...and how she feared the crowd back home might perceive it. Csenge Bacskay wants to "enjoy every second" of her Paris 2024 gymnastics opportunity. Beijing 2008 heptathlon champion Nataliya Dobrynska chats with Kelly Sotherton on her world title, the challenges facing Ukrainian athletes, and much more. Pole vaulter Eliza McCartney readies for Paris 2024 after a 'not straightforward' eight years from her Rio 2016 medal. Can running upstart Ben Pattinson put Team Great Britain back on an Olympic 800-meter podium for the first time in 40 years? Is this the 'year for African sprinters', like Botswana Letsile Tebogo? Olympics: Champion shot putter Ryan Crouser is "just trying to be the best today that (he's) ever been". Inspired into running by his mom's jogging, Emile Cairess is now the second-fastest-ever marathoner in Great Britain, and likely headed to Paris 2024. Sprinter Ben Johnson and his notorious Seoul 1988 100-meter race are again in focus with a new book. So...Team China marathoner He Jie doesn't get a notorious half-marathon win, after all. And...the question is raised whether Zhang Yufei and Team China swimmers were clean at Tokyo 2020. Swimmer Emma McKeon thought about retirement post-Tokyo 2020, but now has high confidence ahead of Paris 2024. Wong Ka-lee is down but not out yet in her quest to bring Team Hong Kong back to Olympic judo. Will judo superstar Uta Abe successfully defend her Olympic title? One research firms thinks not. Paris 2024 "qualified" taekwondo athletes Elisa Mozhdeh and Jemesa Landers find themselves at a bureaucratic loss in their Olympic aspirations. Get to know Team Ireland rugby sevens' Jordan Conroy's 'inner drive'. Olympic ice hockey player and former NHL star Zdeno Chara keeps on marathoning. What's road cyclist Jonas Vingegaard's plan to get back to full speed after a critical injury? French basketball star Rudy Gobert shares stories of...darkness retreats, a strong mother, and more. How did Team USA men's basketball team members receive the news of their inclusion? Meanwhile, Rio 2016 Team USA basketball star Kyrie Irving considers what happened to the 'old' way of picking Team USA. "There was a lot of hardship, and it wore me down." Once-destined-to-be Olympic champion, Kento Momota retires from elite badminton. More retirement: Olympian and tennis major winner Garbine Muguruza steps away from the courts. Surfer Felipe Toledo thinks a surprise recent break from the pro tour 'was the best thing he;d ever done'. Gabriela Bryan gets some "magical" company as she wins a key World Surf League event. Soccer superstar Kylian Mbappe receives support from high places for his Paris 2024 ambitions. "It's just a dream come true." Soccer player John Tolkin contemplates an Olympic call-up for him, and his cologne collection.
The Social Media Lives of Olympic Sports' Stars...
Danas Rapsys gets 'brave in his body'.
Francesco Bonsanto takes in some sun...
...as does Cynthia Bolingo...
Stefanos Ntouskos gets a plum assignment.
Liu Shaolin gets some rest in amidst the rain.
What News Have Olympic Sports Stars Been Making Recently?
"If it made people smile a little bit, so much the better." Diver Alexis Jandard accidentally doesn't show his best self in front of a star audience.
Golfer Cameron Smith's 'desperation' to get to Paris 2024 may depend on a successful Masters run.
Boxer Harry Garside's gold medal ambitions have spurred him to avoid turning professional in order to target Paris 2024. While...fellow Tokyo 2020 boxing medalist Lauren Price sounds the alarm on the sport's future if fundamental governing changes are not implemented. VolleyballlWorld: Argentinean Bruno Lim thinks his team has "the quality to do something big" on the court this summer. "I started to cry, cry, and cry." Natala Escalera relishes reaching Paris 2024 with Team Mexico gymnastics. ESPN: Team USA gymnast Leanne Wong's 'road to Paris' includes 10,000 hair bows. Will a long-distance breaststroke focus be the key for 'big year and big meet' swimmer Katie Ledecky's Paris 2024 ambitions? Whatever happened to former Olympic and world champion swimmer Oleg Lisohor? (in Ukrainian) Kathleen Dawson feels "very emotional" as she makes a second Olympic swimming team in a return from back injury. Team USA's Laila Edwards has a "great feeling" as she makes history in ice hockey at the current worlds. London 2012 Olympian Daniel Teklehaimanot reflects with Olympics.com on the growth in success of Eritrean and Black African road cyclists. Tri247: Traithlete Gwen Jorgensen eyes her pathway to Paris 2024 with a streak of World Cup podiums. Meanwhile, fellow triathlete Beth Potter's plan is totrain with the best to be her best for Paris 2024. Gagik Snjoyan: The Russian problem isn't the only geo-political drama affecting prospective Olympians. Sport climber Campbell Harrison is the latest interview on the Off the Podium podcast... Congratulations are owed to Alpine skiing stars Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde and Mikaela Shiffrin! A final season on the courts is turning into a remarkable one for U.S. tennis player Danielle Collins. Vogue looks at the 'stunning rise' of tennis star Jannik Sinner. Tennis ace Carlos Alacaraz and snowboard/Alpine skiing star Ester Ledecka headline the 'Premios Nacionales del Deporte' as sportspeople of the year. (in Spanish) What were the 2023-24 season highlights for Team Canada athletes in winter sports? Jake Harvie admired his grandfather's Olympic memories...and the field hockey player is determined to make his own at Paris 2024 for Team Australia. As expected...two elite judokas in Christa Deguchi and Jessica Klimkait face the slimmest of separation for one Paris 2024 qualifying spot. Triple Olympic champion sports shooter Vincent Hancock aims for a fifth Games this summer...and a sixth in Los Angeles in 2028. Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924 sport shooter Dennis Fenton gets some overdue recognition at home in County Kerry, Ireland. Tokyo 2020 rugby sevens star Abby Gustaitis sees good signs of the sports growth in the U.S. Go underwater with Team USA's artistic swimmers. NBC: Who are Team USA's key fencers to watch at Paris 2024? Two-time Team Great Britain Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson set to be featured in a new upcoming documentary. More Marca as long-distance runner Guduf Tsegay gets a profile: Tigray drama, life in Madrid, and more. "You can all write this headline, Peleteiro is back." Triple jumper Ana Peleteiro-Compaore is aiming for gold at the European Championships ahead of Paris 2024. CNN: Sprinter Noah Lyles 'is not a man short on confidence'. Sprinter Julien Alfred looks to provide 'hope and opportunity' back home in St. Lucia. "I have a lot of self-hatred and anger and adrenaline kicking in for this race." Runner Olli Hoare is ready for a comeback from injury statement.
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