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A Little Roundup 01.07.21

1/7/2021

 
Here's a story hard to resist: siblings Uta and Hifumi Abe will both be headed to Tokyo 2020 with judo gold in their sights.
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FINA.org takes a look at Joe Kayes, a New Zealander who "crossed the Ditch" and found water polo success in - and with - arch rival Australia.

Kento Momota: Just when he overcomes injury, now Covid-19 hits the badminton star.

Turin 2006 figure skating medalist Sasha Cohen is the host of "Sasha Sessions: A Team USA Podcast", featuring interviews with numerous fellow Olympians.

​Who is the "World Games Greatest Athlete of All Time"? Olympic champion rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva and Tokyo 2020-qualified sport climber Iuliia Kaplina are two of the 24 nominees.

Irish Central shares the "incredible true story of an Olympic athlete turned cop, turned kingpin criminal mastermind", Melbourne 1956 rowing medalist Murray Stewart Riley.

Golfer Adam Scott "considers" playing at Tokyo 2020. Wasn't the attraction of including the sport in the Games the fact that its stars would all appear?

More Ireland: Cycling star Sam Bennett admits question over an Olympic appearance due to a less than ideal course setup for his speed style. Maybe the time trial is the goal?
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A Muguruza-Nadal pairing is just one of many that would certainly be exciting, in what could be a "mouth-watering" mixed doubles tennis event, considering possible pairs of Bencic-Federer, Sakkari-Tsitsipas, Osaka-Nishikori, or Andreescu-Shapovalov. None are regular doubles players these days, though...

Can Australia secure American-born Bryce Cotton citizenship in time for an Olympic appearance this year in basketball?

Two-time gold-medalist Carli Lloyd is looking to make one last Olympic run this year in women's soccer.

Meanwhile, Brazilian soccer star and two-time Olympic medalist Marta announced her engagement to professional teammate Toni Pressley. Congratulations!
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Mystery pops up around star gymnast Oleg Verniaiev's "provisional suspension". Even Team Ukraine head coach is tight-lipped.

Happy Birthday to the world's oldest living Olympian, Agnes Keleti! The former gymnast turns 100 on January 9, and celebrates a new biography, "The Queen of Gymnastics".
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A Little Roundup

10/15/2020

 
Badminton returns with the BWF World Tour's Danisa Denmark Open this week, with Carolina Marin and other top players in action.
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Carolina Marin via denmarkopen.dk
Olympians Megan Rapinoe and Gus Kenworthy had a recent conversation for #NationalComingOutDay.

She won bronze in golf's Olympic return in 2016, but Feng Shanshan has eyes on gold next time. But her Rio gold rival isn't as enthusiastic.

Track star Donovan Brazier tells Tokyo 2020 how he has learned to not take moments for granted as he looks toward Olympic glory.
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Donovan Brazier via Tokyo 2020
Alpine skiing veteran Manuel Osborne-Paradis retires. As does another Winter Olympian, ice hockey gold medalist Meghan Duggan.

Meanwhile, here's one athlete not ready to retire...keep an eye on Annemarie Kiekara at this weekend's World half Marathon Championships. She's competing 22 years after her first try!
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Annemarie Kiekara via World Athletics

A Little Roundup

10/8/2020

 
It really was "World Record Day" in Valencia yesterday!
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Letsenbet Gidey and Joshua Cheptegei via World Athletics
Olympians Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart lead the Seattle Storm charge to the WNBA Finals championship.
ISU.org takes a look at rising star Rika Kihira's, well, rise from the junior ranks to senior impact.

Sport climbing superstar Adam Ondra is the focus of this Olympic Channel profile. He loves climbing!

Pentathlete Samantha Schultz tells Team USA things she learned in the on-going Tokyo Tuesday series.

The Simpsons and @steart_: Can you find the Olympic athletes?

Tokyo 2020: With a 2019 World Cup podium finish, Sanjeev Rajput put himself on track for his third Olympics. Now he wants his first medal.
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Sanjeev Rujpat via Tokyo 2020
On this date in 1965, swimming legend - 11x Olympic medalist - Matt Biondi was born.

​Read all about it! The world's best athlete, Kevin Mayer, has a biography coming soon.

The Olympic Channel​: The current pandemic has Mikaela Shiffrin introspective on her career.

USA TODAY looks at the unique experiences of fencer Ibithaj Muhammad and golfer Mariah Stackhouse as Black women in traditionally White-dominated sports.

No tears: Isn't systemic, state-sponsored doping "unsportsmanlike"?

​All hail Horus!

□ + □‍♂️ + □□ = #Egypt2021 Mascot! HORUS. pic.twitter.com/wrrxspeTUv

— Handball Egypt2021 (@Egypt2021EN) September 5, 2020

A Little Roundup

9/29/2020

 
Can Ariya Jutanugarn finally reach her Olympic goals at Tokyo 2020?
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Ariya Jutanugarn at Rio 206 via Tokyo 2020
Dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu, Japan's oldest Olympian - and who is bidding for another Games appearance - questions the wisdom of officials' recent commitments to Tokyo 2020.

Keep the Flame Alive speaks with Israeli skeleton racer Adam Edelman on his Olympic breakthrough.

Unfortunately, for me, the lasting image of Trayvon Bromell is his awkward lunge at the end of the Rio 2016 4x100 meter relay on the track. As he tells World Athletics, he's readying his comeback.

Hadi Soua'an Somaily's historic Sydney 2000 medal celebrated by the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee on its 20th anniversary.

Sonia O'Sullivan recalled her silver medal-run at Sydney 2000 for The Irish Times.
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Sonia O'Sullivan at Sydney 2000 via The Irish Times
Olympic rower Robbie Manson shares his coming-out story with Team NZ.

Congrats to Anna van der Braggen, winner of a rare double at the UCI Road World Championships in Imola, Italy this past weekend. And to men's winner Julian Alaphilippe, redeeming himself after a tough Tour de France.

Sydney 2000 Olympians reminisce in a special series of Australian Taekwondo Talk.

Those Havaianas better not break!
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Havaianas image via InsidetheGames.biz

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