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A Little Roundup 05.09.24

5/9/2024

 

A News Roundup Featuring Olympic Sports' Stars

Artistic swimmers are "energized and excited" after inaugurating Paris 2024's Aquatic Center last week.

□Athletes share their take on the new Aquatic Center for #Paris2024 after 3 amazing days of #ArtisticSwimming World Cup! □ pic.twitter.com/wz7LvffCcW

— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 6, 2024
"Just enjoy handball itself", is the advice soon-to-be four-time South Korean Olympian Eun-hee Ryu has for future players.

Freestyle skier Jakara Anthony's 'record-breaking campaign' in the 2023-24 season earned her both Australian and FIS honors.

BiathlonWorld​: Get to know rising Slovakian biathlete Ema Kapustova.

Check out some of the 'world famous, incredibly popular' basketball players headed to Paris 2024.

Double Olympic champion Candace Parker with Team USA basketball gets a new plum post-playing role with Adidas.

Olympic sports' stars Angel Reese, Ben Simmons, Dwyane Wade (basketball), Nelly Korda (golf), and Serena and Venus Williams (tennis) were amongst the Met Gala 2024 attendees. (umm...don't forget London 2012 tennis medalist Maria Sharapova, too...)

"Clever, clear thinking" Idalys Ortiz is the latest Olympic judo champion to be featured in a Q&A by IJF.

Beijing 2008 Olympic soccer player Stuart Holden chats with FIFA on Team USA's chances at Paris 2024, and much more.

Will 19-year-old Jessica Dertell become Team Australia's 'youngest-ever Olympic dressage athlete'?

Count Rio 2016 weightlifter Oleksander Pielieshenko as another fatal victim of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Road cyclist Grace Brown is the latest Off the Podium podcast interview: Paris 2024, Tokyo 2020, university degrees, and more.

IOL: Get to know Paris 2024-aspirant breaker Courtnae Paul of South Africa.

Premio Princesa de Asturias de los Deportes 2024: Badminton star Carolina Marin gets a high honor at home in Spain. (in Spanish)

Olympics: Swimmer Yusra Mardini hopes the world welcomes the Olympic Refugee Team with 'open hearts and minds'.

Get to know Team Italy's Sara Curtis, the swimmer 'breaking records and barriers'.

Evy Leibfarth looks forward to saying, 'whatever happens, I gave it my all' in the debut of kayak cross at Paris 2024 this summer.

Who are the 'stars to follow' in women's wrestling at the final Paris 2024 Olympic qualification event?

'A series of blockbuster performances in 2023' has made Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal a potential podium medalist in triathlon this summer at Paris 2024.

What does table tennis' mixed doubles field for Paris 2024 look like now, with qualification complete.

Team Kuwait's Mohammad Aldaihani finally catches up to his father at age 40 with an imminent Olympic appearance in skeet shooting.

Valentin Bontus has gone from 'class clown' to a Paris 2024 podium threat in sailing's formula kite class.

"It's an honor to be able to compete alongside her." Brazilian gymnastics star Rebeca Andrade looks ahead to going up against legend Simone Biles at Paris 2024.

Retired Olympic gymnast Nile Willson offers thoughts on'what makes a champion'.

Double sculls rower Matteo Sartori is World Rowing's 'rower of the month' for April 2024.

Benson Kipruto will have fallen teammate Kelvin Kiptum in mind when he takes to the streets at the Paris 2024 marathon.

​If middle-distance runner Jye Edwards makes a return to the Olympics, it'll be the result of 'overcoming setbacks and self-doubt'.

Sprint star Noah Lyles may agree with track legend Carl Lewis on a 4x100 relay lineup...but won't Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, and others have an opinion?

FIBA3x3.com looks back at Teams Netherlands and Australia success - and Teams Lithuania and Canda shortfalls - in recent Paris 2024 3x3 basketball qualifying.

R.I.P.: ISU pays respect to Dutch Olympic champion figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra.

'Estonian luge is back' with the promise of riders Emma Triin Seer and Katariina Theresa Tomingas.

Retired tennis Serhiy Stavhoskiy talks military service, Ukrainian footballers, and more in a wide-ranging interview. (in Ukrainian).

Pyeongchang 2018 skeleton athlete Elisabeth Maier keeps her family's interest in clean sport going.

Former Canadian skeleton athlete and current IBSF Co-Chairperson of the Athlete Advisory Committee, Elisabeth Maier, joins @IntTestAgency as member of the Education Ambassador team. □

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□ Viesturs Lācis | IBSF #IBSF100 pic.twitter.com/4LrKcQIvFe

— IBSF (@IBSFsliding) May 7, 2024

Let's Get Social 05.03.24

5/3/2024

 

Olympic Sports Stars' Social Media Lives

Mr. Kenworthy and Ms. Maher went to Washington...
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Venus Williams is cultured​.
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Hello, Vito Dell'Aquila!
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Arthur Mariano goes poolside.
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Let's Get Social 04.26.24

4/26/2024

 

The Social Media Lives of Olympic Sports Stars...

Kelly Sildaru works the runway.
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Dariusz Kowaluk has a moment.
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Rhys McClenaghan has a beach day in Italy.
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Lo Chia-ling takes a stroll.
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Liu Shaoang hangs out tropically.
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Let's Get Social 04.19.24

4/19/2024

 

The Social Media Lives of Olympic Sports' Stars...

Danas Rapsys gets 'brave in his body'.
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Francesco Bonsanto takes in some sun...
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...as does Cynthia Bolingo...
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Stefanos Ntouskos gets a plum assignment.
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Liu Shaolin gets some rest in amidst the rain.
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A Little Roundup 03.18.24

3/18/2024

 

A Look At Olympic Sports' Stars In The News

Judoka Nikoloz Sherazadishvili talks more comfort at his new weight class with JudoTV​.
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Rio 2016 Team USA Olympic basketball player DeMar DeRozan is having 'complicated conversations with friend and peers'.

Alysha Koloi's diving exploits at the recent worlds earned her 'emerging athlete' honors as well.

Will equestrian star Shane Rose recover from concussion in time to make the Summer Games?

It takes a champion to know...field hockey star Eddie Ockenden thinks Team Australia has a real chance for gold this summer at Paris 2024.

Double Olympian Ryan Getzlaf is set to make a third Winter Games...this time on Team Canada's ice hockey management team.

Say it isn't so...track cycling champion Christos Volikakis sees his Rio 2016 results in upheaval.

Hong Kong's Ceci Lee Sze-wing may get her preferred track cycling event at Paris 2024...all due to a uniform color mixup.

Alex Ferreira might have quit freestyle skiing a year ago, but now has had a perfect 2024 World Cup run.

Team USA goes 'woman to woman' with surfer Carissa Moore in an exclusive interview.

Vitaly Mandzin's biathlon season had ups and downs, which gave him pointers "on what needs to be worked on further". (in Ukrainian)

Who's been making a move up the Olympic qualification rankings for beach volleyball lately?

Marathoners Connor Mantz and Cooper Young may be 'typical friends', but they're friends headed to Paris 2024 together.

It just might have been an direct message on Instagram that spurred runner James Preston to a remarkable 800-meter personal record.

2023 might have been a tough season, but long-distance runner Eilish McColgan still has medal hopes for Paris 2024.

Citius Mag: Is high school long sprinter Quincy Wilson 'the next big thing'?

A key recent marathon win has Team Zimbabwe's Tendai Zimuto hopeful for momentum toward Olympic qualification.

World Athletics: Get to know Dutch sprinter - and social media star - Lieke Klaver.

ISU pays respect to outgoing Team Norway speed skating stars Sverre Pedersen and Havard Lorentzen.

Olympics: Swimmer Rikako Ikee is hoping for a 'happy ending' to her return from leukemia this summer.

Rio 2016 champion wrestler Erica Wiebe says goodbye to her championship career.

Champion wrestler Iryna Kolyadenko recounts an escape from Kyiv with her family to Sport24. (in Ukrainian)

Briane Harris: A champion's doping suspension 'rocks curling'.

"I felt my heart skip a beat." Team Mexico gymnast Ahtziri Sandoval relishes Olympic qualification.

New African Games triathlon champion Nick Quenet is right back at training, with Paris 2024 in mind.

Star triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee share some of their 'swim mishaps' for Tri247.

Kayaker Luuka Jones' Paris 2024 experience - her fifth Olympics - will be more special now that she's recovered from a long Covid spell.

41-year-old ​Sharath Kamal is still king of Indian table tennis...and just might make it to a fifth Olympics.

"It's a pretty incredible feeling." Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrrin picks up where she left off with a successful return from injury.

​Get an early look at Team Great Britain's Paris 2024-qualified boxers.

Around the Rings: Get to know history-making Cameroonian Refugee Team boxer Cindy Ngamba, now headed to Paris 2024.
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