Anna Ryzhykova shows us some muscle...
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Bryden Hattie and Tyler Downs get mirror-y.
Quentin Fillon Maillet and co. do Salt Lake City.
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Getting To Know Olympic Sports Athletes Through Recent News Features
"It's so amazing." Cross-country skier Krista Parmakoski relishes a long-awaited World Cup victory in front of a home crowd.
Biathletes Simon Eder and Leni Haeki-Gross get roles on the IBU Athletes' Commission for four years.
SI.com: NBA and Olympic basketball star LeBron James 'keeps on adding to the record books'. FIBA looks back at the U19 heroics of college basketball history-making star Caitlin Clark. Modern pentathlete Michelle Gulyas sees a pretty remarkable 2023 season on some level as "terrible". Team Ireland gymnast Rhys McClenaghan, boxer Kellie Harrington, and swimmer Daniel Wiffen visit The Late Late Show to talk Paris 2024 goals. Swimmers Rodolfo Falcon and Alberto and Alfonso Enrique Mestre are forging their own elite competitive careers following noted family lineage. Tyla King, Ilona Maher, Sharni Smale, and Chloe Pelle headline the highlights of last weekend's rugby sevens stop in Los Angeles. Team New Zealand canoe star Lisa Carrington adds more accolades to her resume to start 2024. World Triathlon takes a look at the 'path to Paris' for Australian Matthew Hauser. Will golfer Patty Tavantanakit make it to a second Olympics after a strong 2024 start? Olympics: It was 'a mix of delight and disbelief' for Spaniard Danny Leon as he took a surprise key win on the World Skate Tour stop last weekend. Get to know Team Venezuela's landmark equestrian dressage rider Patricia Ferrando. Boris Vain continues making history for Team Monaco in bobsled despite the retirement of long-time partner Rudy Rinaldi. FIFA.com: Soccer star Aitana Bonmati is 'trying to make a point to savor each moment'. Did you know that diver Tom Daley is a children's book author? UCI: Road cyclist Lotte Kopecky is 'apparently inexhaustible'. The IIHF takes a look at '10 inspiring women' in ice hockey. Vogue: It's game, set, and cover story for tennis star Coco Gauff. Meanwhile...what does tennis great Serena Williams think of not playing at Paris 2024? Weightlifters Parisa Jahanfekrian, Aline de Souza, Monique Araujo, and Addriel Garcia are the IWF Refugee Team for 2024. âSprint hurdler Sarah Lavin now has eyes on a 'major medal' after a strong world indoors performance. Team Uruguay's Marcos Sarraute talks with âGaleria about his journey to elite rowing from an un-athletic begining, and much more. (in Spanish, subscription) Get To Know Olympic Sports Athletes Through Recent News
FEI: Get to know Aistis Vitkauskas, equestrian eventer looking to break more ground for Team Lithuania this summer in Paris.
Jack Marley talks having fellow Team Ireland boxer Kellie Harrington as a role model, a possible real estate career, and more with Irish Independent.
Team Canada's Bryden Hattie thinks his final college conference diving championships hits different. International Gymnast checks in with Ana Perez, back from a 'two-year hiatus' and getting into form for Paris 2024 for Team Spain. Team USA gymnast Fred Richards makes a splash on Good Morning America. Olympian Luiza Zlotkowska leaves the World University Speed Skating Championships with some positive impressions of the competition. Sverre Pedersen: A Norwegian speed skating star retires. What is some of 'the best advice' some Team Canada stars have received in their careers? Everything sure has been "perfect" for Marco Odermatt as he cemented another successful World Cup Alpine skiing season. More from FIS: Team Czechia's Eva Adamcyzkova's 'self-belief' has been a huge reason for success this snowboarding season. Which team handball stars will win the IHF 'World Players of the Year' for 2023? Lindsay Horan sees a great future ahead for an 'energized' Team USA women's national soccer team. Who are the big 'movers' in Olympic qualification rankings after recent triathlon events? Judokas Distria Krasniqi and Akil Gjakova are each honored with their fourth 'Athlete of the Year' awards in Kosovo. "I'm confident about making it to Paris." Team Mexico's Ana Lopez leaps into Olympic conversations after an impressive Pan American weightlifting win. Team France's Jean Quiquampoix helps The Road to Paris 2024 documentary series prepare viewers for what to expect at this summer's Olympic shooting competition. So...how did rugby superstar Antoine Dupont's first official sevens tournament go? IGF: Xander Schauffele 'reflects on golden past' from Tokyo 2020's golf tournament. Whose recent World Biathlon Championships performance indicates a successful end to the season? Get to know soon-to-be Olympic sailing debutant for Team Great Britain Hannah Snellgrove, also a folk singer and Cambridge graduate. The World Sailing Show catches up with Team Hungary's Maria Erdi: her world championship, Olympic plans, and more. Curlers Vicky Wright and Eve Muirhead take their talents to Estonia for an instructing opportunity. Legendary runner Paavo Nurmi's Paris 1924 exploits set to be commemorated at Paris 2024. Not being on Team Great Britain's squad for the World Indoor Track & Field Championships this year has runner Guy Learmonth 'fuming'. Decathlete Fredrik Samuelsson talks with The World According to Gar podcast about his rough journey through injury and setbacks to aim for Paris 2024. Canoeist Hedi Moana Kliemke, Nordic combined athlete Tristan Sommerfeldt, and 3x3 basketball player Tebbe Moeller are recognized as 'elite sports students' in Germany. Olympic sports stars galore dot the nominations for the 2024 World Laureus World Sports Awards.
Olympic Sports Athletes In The Recent News
Vanity Fair Italia catches up with champion tennis star Jannik Sinner: privacy, crying, challenges, and more. (in Italian)
Tennis champ Coco Gauff makes it as one of Time Magazine's Women of the Year for 2024.
BNN: Skylar Park is 'poised to end Canada's medal drought' in taekwondo at Paris 2024. Will Zareid Kareem build upon Team Jordan's burgeoning Olympic legacy in taekwondo at Paris 2024? "It's fantastic!" Gymnast Kaylia Nemour revels in her upcoming debut Olympics for Team Algeria. Sport climber Campbell Harrison relishes his Paris 2024 qualification after his Tokyo 2020 plans derailed. Continue to go 'beyond the ice' of Team Switzerland's Lara Stadler's journey in ice hockey management. Is Sam Williamson really a new Paris 2024 medal threat for Team Australia swimming? In other Australian swimmer news...legend Ian Thorpe recounts his identity struggles in early days. The IBU Hall of Fame welcomes biathletes Gabriela Soukalova, Magdalena Forsberg, and Raphael Poiree as its latest members. Presenting equestrian event-er Shane Rose and the 'mankini' that ruffled some feathers... Soccer superstar Lionel Messi tries - again - to tamper down recent criticism in Hong Kong. Looks like we won't see boxing legend Manny Pacquiao as an Olympian... Triple Olympic road racing cyclist Joane Somarriba 'couldn't be more delighted' to witness - and help lead - the growing rate of women's cycling these days. Team Chile's rugby sevens turns to the national military for inspiration and training as possible Paris 2024 qualification looms on the horizon. Three-time Olympian Czech Miroslav Vrastil, Jr. is World Rowing's 'Rower of the Month' for February. Gus Schumacher uses home-field crowd advantage to a remarkable cross-country win in Minneapolis. Who does water polo legend Tony Acevedo think earned 'hotshot' potential at the worlds last week? ICF looks back at the rich history of Czech canoeing, including stars Stepanka Hilgertova, Martin Doktor, Josef Holecek, and Jan Brzak-Felix. Surfer Sally Fitzgibbons talks inspiration from Cathy Freeman, her inner 'fire', and more with Olympics. Rohan Browning has learned to be an elite sprinter without being 'big and ripped'. Once a Team USA running prodigy, Mary Cain now may be seen competing in Irish tricolors. "My confidence has now skyrocketed..." Sprinter Noah Lyles is ready to take on multiple-gold challenges. Irish long jumper Reece Ademola pushes toward the eight-meter mark with an eye on Paris 2024. Irene Schouten: A Dutch speed skating legend retires. Grace Bullen "wanted to be great at wrestling" and her training base change has propelled her to new heights on the road to Paris 2024.
Olympic Sports Stars Post On Social Just Like Us...
'Hello, Fanny Smith!
Ivet Lalova shows off a bump.
Andrew Knewstubb gets a haircut.
Darko Pesic stops in Montpelier.
Loena Hendrickx recaps a busy couple of weeks.
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