Barcelona 1992 fencing medalist and current Team Ukraine chief Vadym Gutzeit continues his push to have Russian athletes barred from Paris 2024.

Meanwhile, more than 300 global fencers write an open letter to Thomas Bach and the International Olympic Committee urging the same.

Atlanta 1996 boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko minces no words on his opinion on the issue.

And...skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych sees the IOC's stance on Russia as a "slap in the face".

Team Dominican Republic is more than ready to welcome NBA star Karl-Athony Towns onto their basketball World Cup roster this summer.

Krystal Legel-Walker looks forward to challenging Team Australia and honoring her grandmother as she represents Team New Zealand at basketball's 3x3 Asia Cup.

"It was amazing" is how Team Norway's Anne Kjersti Kalvaa thinks of her first cross-country skiing world cup podium at age 30.

Biathlon World has 'five burning questions' for champion Johannes Thingnes Boe, covering his remarkable 2022-23 season and more.

The Runthrough: Have you checked out Adam Rippon's and Ashley Wagner's figure skating podcast?

Andre Schmid 'love' for handball and Switzerland - plus his stature as an 'icon' of the game - makes him a perfect national team coach.

London 2012 champions Ki Bo Bae and Oh Jin Hyek are still hanging around the powerful South Korean archery squad...how long will it last?

With indoor success under his belt, Joel Naukkarinen is turning his attention to flat water rowing with an Olympic appearance on his mind.

As a new partnership, Trevor Bornath and Louisa Nordstrom are eager to take advantage of the new mixed gender 470 saling class at Paris 2024.

With mixed emotions from her previous Olympic experiences, weightlifter Mattie Rogers is cautious on her Paris 2024 expectations.

"I need to unplug for a little while." Team Canada's Olympic swimmer Taylor Ruck looks to reset ahead of the Olympic season next year.

Jordan Crooks had a 'historic' World Short Course Swimming Championships...can he do the same at the NCAAs this week?

"I liked the idea of stabbing my friends" is how up-and-coming Mason Stanley got his start in fencing.

Helen Maroulis and Team USA's Tokyo 2020 female wrestlers shine in the 'human story' of Helen | Believe.

Team Netherlands' 21-year-old cyclist Shirin van Arooij's rise is shining with an 'impression that she can do anything on her bike'.

After a relatively late start in her road cycling career, Ayesha McGowan is determined to leave a mark in the sport to inspire others.

Which Olympic stars made FEI's 'insta sensations' in equestrianism for the month of March?

Goh Liu Ying reflects on her badminton career, Rio 2016 Olympic history and more.

Curious how Team Italy short track speed skaters spent a day at the worlds? Check out ISU.org's video...

​Team Austria lugers Selina Egle and Nico Gleirscher offer perspective on their 'intense' end-of-season practice before official pre-season quickly begins.

Track & Field News has an interview with star sprinter Noah Lyles, who has a 100 & 200m double in mind.

Meanwhile, Athletics Weekly looks at how javelin star Neeraj Chopra is 'inspiring a nation'.

Declan Tingay proved he's a 'different athlete' than last year as he powered to an almost two-minute improvement in the 20km race walk last weekend.

Robert Prevost is an artistic swimmer just out of retirement for the sake of "the next generation of Canadian males", like 13-year-old Christopher Niehaus.

Pat Burgener is living life.

Amber Johill wraps up Malidves.

Karsten Warholm contemplates 27.

Gonzalo Perez showcases Barcelona.

Eric Radford wakes up in Paris.

Insider: Photographer Mykola Synelnykov showcases the ruined training facilities Ukrainian athletes face at home due to the Russian invasion.

Olympic triple jumper Olha Saladukha makes a parallel to Berlin 1936 regarding the IOC's plans for Russian participation at Paris 2024.

Long hurdler Femke Bol aims for a 'new level in 2023'; she's on her way with fast start indoors over 400m.

Olympic runners Desiree Linden and Kara Goucher continue their Nobody Asked Us podcast with an episode previewing their autobiographies.

London 2012 'blade runner' track star Oscar Pistorius doesn't impress his would-be father-in-law ahead of a possible parole from prison.

Olympic steeplechaser Colleen Quigley now is a certified triathlete after a Tritonman win.

"I'm completely alright now." Badminton star P.V. Sindhu is back from injury and on the 2023 season trail.

Archer Steve Wiljer's form may look "a little uncontrolled", but it's gotten him success indoors and out.

Can rising gymnast Tonya Paulsson reach her goal of a World Championship all-around final?

Did you catch tennis legend Serena Williams in two commercials during the Super Bowl?

Biathlon legends Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, and Sven Fischer honored by the IBU for their 'exceptional performances and achievements over their careers'.

Team USA's Alpine skiing worlds victory in the team parallel event was "extra sweet" after a frustrating Beijing 2022 fourth-place finish.

World champion boxers Busenaz Surmeneli and Sennur Demir join earthquake relief efforts in their native Turkey.

And, the team handball community mourns the passing of Team Turkey's Cemal Kutahya, who passed away in the earthquake disaster.

Athens 2004 Olympian and basketball star Allen Iverson makes the GQ Sports Style Hall of Fame.

Tokyo 2020 rower Husein Alireza is the first Saudi athlete to be honored with recognition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Montreal 1976 modern pentathlete Dr. Keith McCormick is now a published author focused on helping to fight osteoporosis.

Snowboarding star Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins the Supreme Halberg Award as New Zealand's top athlete in 2022.

Does soccer superstar and multi-Olympian Neymar gives his support to recently LGBTQ-out fellow international player Jakub Jankto?

Team Canada's leading women's soccer players are "angry, frustrated, appalled, and heartbroken" on the state of the relationship with Canada Soccer.

​Who won the IJF Judo Awards 2022?

Olympic figure skater Tiffany Scott Pryor goes back to the ice to teach preschoolers the sport.

Uruguayan Olympic sailor Felix Sienra had been the world's oldest living Olympian, until his recent passing in late January.

Trampolinist Hikaru Mori rebounded from a disappointing Tokyo 2020 with world championship success, and now contemplates Paris 2024: "...that's something to think about".

Olympics.com: Equestrian athletes Mary Hanna, Abdelkebir Ouaddar, Phillip Dutton, and sport shooter Nino Salukvadze are 'ageless Olympians' eyeing Paris 2024.

Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel sits with actress Danai Gurira to talk #LoveOurGirls, her experience in swimming, and more.

How does Team Ireland rugby sevens star Billy Dardis recover from competition and training? Dr. Pete Tierney has answers.

Surfing's 'next big thing', Molly Picklum, gets used to her raised profile while 'taking life in stride'.

"Russia is killing my people. Not good situation for Olympic Committee." Alpine skier Ivan Kovbanyuk has words for the on-going situation in Ukraine.

​The Guardian: Boxer Oleksandr Usyk feels the intimate sting of the Russian invasion in Ukraine as he prepares for his next championship bout.​

Collegiate fandom hits a low mark with "Russia" jabs at Ukrainian basketball player Max Shulga.

Will Team USA star Diana Taurasi attempt a sixth basketball gold medal with Paris 2024 looming?

Meanwhile, fellow basketball star Elena Delle Donne is ready for the new season this year after "the greatest" offseason.

And...Olympic and pro basketball champion LeBron James becomes the all-time point leader in the NBA.

​Rower Anastasiia Silvina and tennis player Yuliia Zhytelna are recent CalHOPE Courage Award winners - while navigating life away from Ukraine.

Almost back inside the top 100, Oceane Dodin is ITF World Tennis Tour's 'Player of the Month' for January.

Team USA tennis star Jessica Pegula gets personal in The Players' Tribune with a reflection on her mom's cardiac arrest.

Is Olympic bronze medalist Harry Garside prioritizing entertainment over boxing?

Still relatively new to bobsled, Kaysha Love is learning the front seat while holding down back seat duties.

Greg Cackett and Taylor Lawrence think that Team Great Britain's medal success at the recent bobsled worlds is a sign of things to come at Milan Cortina 2026.

Will swimmer Ariarne Titmus defend her Olympic gold? A showdown this year against Katie Ledecky will be telling.

"King of Cats" Tang Chia-hung hopes 2023 will show 'everything he is capable of' in gymnastics.

Team Canada ice hockey star Sarah Nurse makes an impression on the ice at the NHL All-Star Game...and gets a job invitation.

Kazakh kayak Olympian Aleksandr Dyadchuk finds recent success as a coach with Team India, but keeps the athletes' "targets much higher".

Team Spain's champion canoeist Saul Craviotto gives an assist to the NFL's Chicago Bears' 'Mini Monsters' international youth program.

Team Turkey wrestling is hit hard by the unprecedented earthquakes at the start of the week.

Fresh off an 80 for Brady cameo, freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy has the romantic comedy acting bug.

Olympian Sergy Rikhter takes a stand for Team Israel in the face of political exclusion at a recent shooting sport World Cup.

All eyes will be on the home team's Denise Herrmann-Wick as the World Biathlon Championships hit Oberhof this week.

Star judoka Clarisse Agbegnenou has a special meeting with the French prime minister...

...while Team Italy's volleyball stars get an audience with the pope.

Can badminton player Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian duplicate his junior-level success as a senior?

The World Triathlon Podcast checks in with Rio 2016 champion Gwen Jorgensen as she continues her comeback to competition after a maternity break.

"I think this is the greatest moment in my life." Mathias Gidsel and Team Denmark celebrate their recent World Handball Championship at home.

Champion soccer player Becky Sauerbrunn wades into support for transgender girls' access to sport.

Short track speed skater Lin Xiaoyun's success with Team China riles up his former countrymen.

Team Great Britain's Olympic medalist curling skip David Murdoch set for a big switch to Team Canada.

Meanwhile, former NFL football star Jared Allen has Olympic curling dreams...that started with a bet.

With the current upper hand, star cyclist Mathieu van der Poel has "respect" for his on-going rivalry with competitive nemesis Wout van Aert.

Fellow road cyclist Mark Cavendish sees two of his assailants sentenced for the high-profile robbery.

Surfer Leo Fioravanti has thoughts on World Surfing League's partnership with Apple: "...my watch didn't work from start to finish. And that's pretty heavy".

"Trust" has been key for Katharina Bauer's rise to the top of World Archery's rankings this year.

CNN: Track cyclist Kelly Catlin and snowboarder Ellie Soutter are two unfortunate examples of female athletes succumbing to possibly concussion-related suicides.

Team Great Britain's skateboarding squad for this week's world park championships features the event's largest age gap - 37 years between 12-year-old Tommy Calvert and 49-year-old Andy MacDonald.

A fateful trip to a skate park - with rollerblades - inspired Aurelien Giraud to skateboarding. He's now a world street champion.

R.I.P. to 22-year-old decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk, killed in military action while fighting the Russian invasion in his native Ukraine.

Atlanta 1996 champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko has strong words for Thomas Bach and the IOC.

Sidedoor's December cover story featured sprinter Andre De Grasse: "I'm really good at it and I am talented and maybe I can go far".

Irish running great Sonia O'Sullivan sees the strong start to 2023 for sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke as a boon to her future.

Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna bucks the trend with a return to collegiate access, but still has Worlds and Olympic dreams.

Penalty Loop: Just how dominant are Team France's women's team this biathlon season?

"So don't stop being you." Figure skater Ilia Malinin hears some good advice after a disappointing free skate program at the U.S. Nationals.

GQ Italia: It's a sign of competitive growth that swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi expects wins, not just finals.

Groundbreaking swimmer Simone Manuel is 'still very private' despite the global stage she is on.

Who will win the LEN Awards for the 'best' in European Aquatics in 2022?

​Olympic swimmer Daniel Jervis shares his coming out story with ESPN alongside soccer player Zander Murray and referee Lloyd Wilson.

Those 'testy exchanges' at the FIFA World Cup against Team Netherlands? Soccer superstar Lionel Messi has some regret.

Gymnast Jordan Chiles' floor routine continues to bring the party.

R.I.P.: Freestyle skier Kyle Smaine killed by an avalanche while skiing in Japan.

Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin gets a unique gondola recognition in Palisades Tahoe for her achievements.

Double Olympian Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi hopes recognition of her success as a canoe coach inspires other women into leadership roles.

Kerri Walsh Jennings: An Olympic beach volleyball legend is back for 'one more run'.

Janne Saarinen: Can a radio disc jockey win a landmark Olympic medal for Team Finland in luge?

Off-Road.cc looks back at the career of Atlanta 1996 mountain bike champion Bart Brentjens.

Might Timo Cavelius be the first openly gay male judoka competing at an Olympics?

Equestrian Olympian Zara Tindall opens up on 'her heartbreaking series of miscarriages'.

Rio 2016 volleyball champion Wallace da Souza incites violence.

Tokyo 2020 judo medalist Sagi Muki makes the celebrity pages with a marriage engagement.

Who will win a seat as an Athlete Representative for World Skateboarding?

Meanwhile, 'larger than life' skateboarder Aurelien Giraud has thoughts on Paris 2024 as he leads Team France's contingent at this week's World Championships.

Modern pentathletes Sarolta Simon and Mattia Parisi receive World Academy of Sport scholarships for their sport leadership studies.

Sport shooter Kim Britton worries that new Canadian government regulations may make her sport "too challenging to pursue".

Triathlete Vincent Luis: "I wake up everyday wanting to be the Olympic champion".

Olympic champion karateka Sandra Sanchez is the first-ever chair of the first-ever Athletes' Committee for the International World Games Association.

Wrestler Thomas Gilman shares 'mental, physical, technical, nutritional, and lifestyle' tips for success.

Goalkeeper Andreas Wolff's 112 saves in the 2023 World Handball Championship proved the 'key' to Team Germany's good overall showing.

Who will win the World Archery Awards for 2022? And who will be landmark inductees into the World Archery Hall of Fame? Public voting is open until the end of February.

ITF has all the 'standout numbers' resulting from Novak Djokovic's Australian Open tennis championship.

Tokyo 2020 tennis champ Alex Zverev gets a reprieve from the ATP in its abuse investigation.

Tennis legend Roger Federer is pushed 'out of his comfort zone' for a project with artist Ugo Rondinone.
(and..is he a Blackpink fan??)

A European Championships silver in 2022 was an "injection of energy" for Team Spain's rhythmic gymnastics group as it looks ahead to a home Worlds this summer.

More rhythmic gymnastics as Boryana Kaleyn is "more than ready" for her dream of an Olympic medal.

FIBA​ asks who are the #1 players for each 3x3 basketball national federation?

Olympic rower Eskild Ebbesen's transition to post-competition life 'was easy', as he continues to take lessons from sports into his 9-to-5 world.

More Team Australia bobsled tragedy as Olympian Duncan Pugh dies suddenly after Simon Dunn's passing last week.

​Athens 2004 sailing champion Kevin Burnham's legacy lives on with a memorial grant awarded to three youth sailors in the U.S.