"It's honestly amazing, a dream come true." Long sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley finally gets the Team Ireland call for an Olympics.

What does a recent 2,000 meter world record portend for runner Jessica Hull's chances for a medal at her second Olympics?

1500-meter champion runner Freweyni Hailu didn't make the cut for Team Ethiopia's Paris 2024 roster, and has something to say about it...

Team Canada: Will hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg 'highlight his tremendous rise at Paris 2024'?

Is a sports drink to blame for sprinter Issam Asinga not making it to Paris 2024 for Team Suriname?

Get to know Dutch rising star on the track, Niels Laros, who's headed to Paris 2024 on a roll and pipping his father's legacy in the process.

​Sprint legend Allyson Felix takes her maternal advocacy to a new stage with an Olympic nursery.

Kenyan sprinter Zablon Ekwam is feeling 'no pressure' ahead of his Paris 2024 400 meters competition.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh's world record inspires Sport24 to check in with fellow Ukrainian high jump star - and Athens 2004 medalist - Vita Styopina. (in Ukrainian)

British Virgin Islander Adaejah Hodges set to inspire fans back home with a Paris 2024 sprint appearance - at just 18-years-old.

Canadian track star Marco Arop isn't afraid of world record talk in the 800 meters.

I count four Olympians on the winners list from last week's ESPYS: Simone Biles (gymnastics), and A'ja Wilson (twice!), Luka Doncic, and Dawn Staley (basketball).

​Skateboarder Chloe Covell details a 'love of the sport' to Vogue Australia.

USA TODAY offers a look at an 'A-Z' recap of some of Team USA's standout Olympians over the last 11 Summer Games.

At one point, boxer Aidan Walsh had only 45 minutes to decide if he wanted a go at a second Olympics...

For the Win gives us 'five facts' about U.S. NBA basketball player-turned beach volleyball Olympian Chase Budinger.

Should Team USA basketball fans be concerned about star Kevin Durant's 'calf strain'?

NBA player Rui Hachimura wants to use that elite basketball experience to make impact for Team Japan at Paris 2024.

​Will the Paris Olympics be the breakthrough forbudding Team USA soccer star Jaedyn Shaw?

Meanwhile, Team Australia seems to be limping into Paris 2024's women's soccer tournament.

"We have quite real chances to prove ourselves." Kiril Fesyun leads Team Ukraine's landmark hopes for Paris 2024's men's soccer tournament. (in Ukrainian)

Olympics: Did you know retired team handball star Luc Abalo is now an 'Olympian Artist'?

Get to know sport climber Toby Roberts, set to make history for Team Great Britain at Paris 2024.

Triathlete Elizabeth Bravo targets "the best Olympic Games of her career". (in Spanish)

Who are some of the French stars at Paris 2024 carrying 'the weight of a nation'?

New Zealand gymnast Georgia-Rose Brown looks to fully enjoy her Olympic experience at Paris 2024.

Who is Hezly Rivera, Team USA gymnastics newcomer set for an Olympic debut this summer?

The University of Bath will be well represented at Paris 2024 as student swimmers Henriques Mascarenhas, Ridhwan Mohamed, and Tobi Sijuade will represent their respective countries alongside six others who train at the Bath pool.

WWD: How does star swimmer Caeleb Dressel 'prepare for that moment'?

Team Australia's Sm Short would have welcomed embattled swim rival Sun Yang into the Paris 2024 pool as he targets multiple medals.

National Post: Swimmer Summer McIntosh is a 'TikTok-watching, Drake-listening, mall-shopping teen'.

The saga around figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping ban continues with a court date for Team Canada just ahead of the Paris Olympics this summer.

Team Chile has a table tennis star - Zhiying Zeng - who will make an Olympic debut at age 58(!).

Will Jerry Tuwai's - and his sidestep's - return to Team Fiji be the key for another rugby sevens gold at Paris 2024?

With an inspirational push from soccer star Mohammad Salah, can Ahmed Elgendy improve upon his Olympic silver medal at Paris 2024?

Tokyo 2020  - and now double Grand Slam - tennis champion Barbora Krejcikova reflects on the influence of triple Olympic medalist Jana Novotna.

Can Irish golf star and Olympian Rory McIroy bounce back from a disappointing US Open at the British Open with lessons learned?

Hook & Barrel has a 'special salute' to Team USA's sport shooters headed to Paris, including Vincent Hancock, Conner Pinze, and Dania Vinzi.

"I don't think that I'd ever get a higher honor." Sport shooter Elenia Galiabovitch reflects on a unique Tokyo 2020 experience while aiming high for Paris 2024.

Think you've had an eventful life? Meet Cuban-born Refugee Team sprint canoeist Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez...

Rodrigo Conde thought he might be done with canoeing after Tokyo 2020, but his partnership with Aleix Garcia sees the two headed to Paris 2024 for Team Spain. (in Spanish)

Eights rowing champion Tom Mackintosh has a new challenge for Paris 2024: trying for another gold, but in the single scull.

Marloes Oldenburg is headed to Paris 2024 for Team Netherlands rowing, just two years after a near-fatal bike accident.

Guadaloupian fencing star Enzo Lefort gets a feature treatment from Financial Times.

We're only 14 days away from the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games! (And only 12 days from the start of actual competition!)

And I've got loads of sport-by-sport questions needing answers as the Games unfold. Who will make the podiums? Who will be the breakout star(s)? The underdog hero? On and on...

But there is definitely a lead story line I'll be following across each of Paris 2024's 32 sports - check them out below. I can't wait to find out what transpires...and to see some of these unfold in person at the Games!

What are yours? Let me know in the comments...

And keep an eye on my 'A Little Roundup' posts on this site to stay in touch with select news items and headlines featuring Olympic sports' athletes as the Games approach.

Team India's boxer Nikhat Zareen has a fan Q & A hosted by Vogue India.

Who made the final Team USA roster for Paris 2024?

Redemption may be in store for Team El Salvador's Oscar Ticas, as the archer makes it to Paris 2024 after a Rio 2016 debacle.

Will Team Denmark help star Mikkel Hansen retire on a high in men's team handball at Paris 2024?

Refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini makes an emotional return to the site of the beginning of a new era in her life and career.

Team Botswana swimmer Adrian Robinson can credit scholarship from World Aquatics for pushing him to Paris 2024.

Team USA and WNBA basketball star A'ja Wilson uses baked goods to show her LGBT allyship.

Wait...how many crystals will be on Team USA's women's gymnastics' leotards this summer in Paris?

"My first goal is for everyone to complete our task and come home safely." Team Singapore equestrian rider Caroline Chew approaches her second Games with a clear mind.

Compartmentalizing her husband's role as coach and partner has helped Belgian Lara de Liedekerke-Meier reach a landmark win in equestrian eventing.

Axel Clerget shares his thoughts on how fellow judokas are preparing for Paris 2024 in these last weeks.

Can Griffin Colapinto learn from past mistakes to conquer Paris 2024 surfing in Tahiti?

Remembering when Margaret Murdock won the first Olympic medal by a woman in sport shooting...

Kate Knifton's qualification to Team USA's rowing team for Paris 2024 fulfills a decades-long family quest to reach an Olympics.

More rowing as World Rowing checks in with retired single sculler Marcel Hacker, Team Germany's iron man of the sport who lasted 25 years in competition.

And even more: Rowing siblings Martin and Valent Sinkovic are preparing for Paris 2024 to be the "toughest Olympics for (them) so far" in their quest for a fourth medal.

Atlanta 1996 soccer player Santi Denia has new role with Team Spain...as head coach for the Paris 2024 squad, and he has high hopes of a podium placement.

Elodie Claivel and Valentin Paredes are just two of the modern pentathlon stars featured in the latest A Passion for Paris episodes from the UIPM.

What do some of Paris 2024's elite triathletes think of the swim portion of their sport, revealed in World Triathlon's latest Dare to Dream episode. (Let's hope we have a swim portion in Paris!)

It's a "dream come true" for Alex de Minaur making it to Paris 2024's tennis tournament.

Making Team USA's Olympic sailing roster for the first time in three tries, Hans Henken will be leveraging his aeronautical education to hopefully an advantage.

Which table tennis players have reached a total of seven (!) Olympic Games?

How did "rebellious" diving legend Greg Louganis survive childhood tumult on his way to an elite career

Not just Hugo Keenan...Andrew Smith also has a switch to rugby sevens story to talk about for Team Ireland ahead of Paris 2024.

Ice Hockey athlete to Watch: Star of the 2023 U18 men's worlds Macklin Celebrini goes first in the 2024 NHL Draft.

National Post: Get to know 22-year-old canoeist Sophia Jensen, about to make her Olympic debut for Team Canada this summer.

Retired biathlete Selina Gasparin uses her experience to 'shape her sport' in Switzerland.

What does the men's weightlifting field look like for Paris 2024?

Runner Cole Hocker's 2024 season is tracking nicely as a comeback, after a couple of years plagued by 'injury sidetracks'.

World Athletics explores long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall's 'authenticity'.

"Track is my life..." Vogue checks in with Team USA star sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson...

...while British Vogue has a 'candid' feature with heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson...

...and Vogue Mexico chats with Team Venezuela triple jump star Yulimar Rojas, whose injury derails her Paris 2024 plans.

Will defense of his 1500 meter Olympic title be a "walk in the park" for star runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen?

He may not have made it to Paris 2024, but Team USA elite sprint hurdler Trey Cunningham achieves another milestone...coming out publicly as LGBT.

"The key is not to get nervous." 800 meter-runner Adrian Ben has a knack for getting into major championship finals. (in Spanish)

"I consider it my mission to prevent them from getting on the podium." Ukrainian wrestler Iryna Kolyadenko considers the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes at Paris 2024.

Time Out Sydney checks in with rugby sevens star Charlotte Caslick, headed to her third Olympics.

Like mother, like daughter...Ashley Hoffman follows family history in making it to an Olympics in field hockey for Team USA.

Tennis.com looks at the legacy star Andy Murray has built as his career winds down.

Gymnast Frederick Richards felt "pretty cool inside" as he worked his way through the recent U.S. Olympic Trials.

Tokyo 2020 U.S. gymnast McKayla Skinner creates  stir with some unneeded comments on current Team USA gymnasts.

Team USA star LeBron James certainly does have gold on his mind for this summer's Olympic basketball tournament in Paris.

Meanwhile, some surprises were made in Team Australia's squad announcement for men's basketball.

Boxer Kellie Harrington realizes her second Olympics will be a lot noisier than her first.

Paris 2024-bound triathlete Beth Potter isn't slowing down in the waning weeks before the Olympics.

​"It's crazy because I never would have expected this." Skateboarder Ruby Lilley wraps her head around Paris 2024 qualification with Team USA.

Aneli Mauley Marena Whittle aren't just trailblazers as part of Team Australia's first Olympic women's 3x3 basketball team...but as partners in life, too.

Olympics: Weightlifter Yekta Jamali Galeh has a mission...to inspire other women in sport.

Equestrian eventer Andrew Hoy may not make it to Paris 204 for his ninth Olympics, but is Los Angeles 2028 or Brisbane 2032 in the cards?

A fourth-place finish at Tokyo 2020 is what has driven rowers Emily Craig and Imogen Grant to Paris 2024.

Team Greece's Andreas Vazaios reflects on his start in swimming...and the road ahead, in The Owl Post.

Stockholm 1912 swimming champion Malcolm, er, Champion's gold makes it back to New Zealand...finally.

SI.com: Caeleb Dressel is a 'changed swimmer' as he heads to another Olympics this summer.

A turn of events in Australian v U.S. beef in swimming as Aussie James Magnussen publicly defends American legend Michael Phelps.

Who are the Tokyo 2020 swimming medalists that will be back in an Olympic pool this summer?

Team GB: What are five things that have shaped sport climber Molly Thompson-Smith?

"I think that sport is brutal sometimes." Ola Kalucka pips her twin sister for a last sports climbing spot at Paris 2024 for Team Poland.

Aron Szilagyi may have had some 'false starts' in his athletic career, but he's eyeing a fourth individual Olympic fencing title this summer.

Will Team Japan sabre fencer Misaki Emura add an Olympic title to her two world championships?

"The Olympic rings are colored again." Golfer Joost Luiten makes it to Paris 2024 after getting a lawyer and the Dutch court system involved.

​Saya Sakakibara and Logan Martin are taking very different Tokyo 2020 experiences with them into Paris 2024 as part of Team Australia's BMX squad.

Champion sailor Matt Wearn talks tattoos and battling long Covid-19 with The Sydney Morning Herald.

Oleksiy Sereda heads to Paris 2024 for Team Ukraine, despite 'a bit of a glitch' in fitness. (in Ukrainian)

"It's an honor not just to run or myself but for my country." South African long sprinter Lythe Pissay relishes a trip to Paris 2024 with an eye on a relay medal.

New Jamaican sprint star Kishane Thompson has at least one super fan already...his mother.

CBC: Middle-distance runner Marcos Arop is 'ready to rise to the occasion' at Paris 2024.

She may not be competing at Paris 2024, but champion triple jumper Yulimar Rojas will still represent Team Venezuela.

What does running great Hicham El Guerrouj think of current star Jakob Ingebrigtsen's record chances?

Will middle-distance runner Djamel Sedjati experience success in front of the legions of Team Algeria fans in Paris?

Javelin thrower Kara Winger is ready to 'retire with peace' after not making Team USA for Paris 2024.

Greek long jumper Louis Tsatoumas looks back at a career with Athlete Stories.

Will Team Canada 'make a splash' at Paris 2024's women's water polo tournament this summer?

Tokyo 2020 champion Richard Carapaz continues to make history for Team Ecuador in road cycling, now at the Tour de France. (in Spanish)

More Tour de France as cyclist Julien Bernard's "dream moment" in Stage 7 earns him an unusual fine.

Out looks at 40 LGBTQ+-out athletes to root for at Paris 2024.

Will Team Nigeria table tennis newcomer Fatima Bello 'make impact' at Paris 2024?

Chinese star Wang Manyu  - and table tennis - sure do have some passionate and dedicated fans.

Judoka Tatsuru Saito will have his father - double Olympic champion Hitishi Saito - by his side in memory as he chases his own judo title this summer in Paris.

"An Olympic medal is the dream I've been chasing all of my life." Judoka Francisco Garrigos' goal remains the same for Paris 2024 after a Tokyo 2020 letdown. (in Spanish)

Vogue presents 'the leading Greek Olympians', including sports shooter Anna Korakaki, long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou, gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, rower Stefanos Tsoukos, water polo player Yiannis  Fundoulis, and tennis star Maria Sakkari. (in Greek)

Team Canada golfer Nick Taylor had an early brush with the Olympics at Vancouver 2010, and now finds himself headed to Paris 2024.

Sport climber Alberto Gines Lopez chats with Olympics on the crucial role his coach plays.

Meanwhile, fellow sport climber Campbell Harrison continues to broaden awareness for out-LGBT athletes - with the International Olympic Committee's help.

Former U-23 Asian Cup star Joel Fujita is 'determined' to help Team Japan reach the top of Paris 2024's men's soccer podium this summer.

What to make of controversial Korbin Albert making Team USA's roster for women's soccer at Paris 2024?

Short track speed skater Brendan Corey has a 'mission' to drive his sport's awareness in Australia.

Biathlon World: Get to know Team Mongolia's (!) rising biathlete Enkhsaikhan Enkhbat.

Sochi 2014 medalist Christopher Fogt is the new head coach of Team USA's bobsled team.

The Global Athlete group posts an open letter to the World Anti-Doping Agency urging "actions be immediately taken to restore athletes' trust" in the efforts against cheating.

FIS reminds us of today's 'snow gladiators' in freestyle skiing's ski cross elite competitors.

Will Team Germany have 'equestrian's greatest Olympian', Isabelle Werth, to lead it at Paris 2024?

Will canoeist Saul Craviotto retire as the most-decorated Spanish Olympian of all-time after Paris 2024? (in Spanish)

How are Team Refugee canoeists Saeid Fazloula, Fernando Dayan Jose Enriquez, Saman Soltani, and Amir Rezanejad Hassanjani prepping for Paris 2024?

Judoka Mashu Baker talks Rio 2016 success with IJF.

The Off the Podium podcast talks with 'one of the greatest field hockey players of all time', Team Australia's Eddie Ockenden.

Team Hong Kong's Him Chun Chiu is World Rowing's 'Rower of the Month' for June 2024.

Who are the 122 weightlifters set to compete at Paris 2024?

"I have reached a place where I must achieve something." Taekwondo athlete Donia Abu Taleb's Paris 2024 appearance will carry added weight as the first-ever female Olympic outright qualifier.

Team Jordan's Julyana Al-Sadeq also realizes the impact her Paris 2024 appearance in taekwondo can have back home.

Pole vault champion Sam Kendricks has some, um. comments on the Olympic platform...

Sprint hurdler Trey Cunningham talks to World Athletics on living 'without regrets'.

​Paris 2024-bound Kate Douglass joins other USA Swimming stars in a summer swimwear promotion.

Australian swim legend Cate Campbell tries to calm down trash talk over-hype against Team USA ahead of a showdown in the Paris 2024 pool.

Team USA swim stars Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt take their frustration with global ant-doping efforts to Washington, DC.

Australian diver Cassiel Rousseau is 'remarkably relaxed' despite carrying medal ambitions - and the weight of family history - at Paris 2024.

How did gymnasts Tin Srbic and Artur Davtyan reach Paris 2024 with the help of the Olympic Solidarity Scholarship?

What's the connection again between Team USA Tokyo 2020 gymnast MyKayla Skinner and the 'Ninja Warrior' franchise?

Mijain Lopez (wrestling), Rebeca Andrade (gymnastics), Marileidy Paulino, Valerie Allman, & Julien Alfred (track & field), Margaret MacNeil (swimming), Marcos Moneta (rugby sevens), Osmar Olvera (diving), and Nicola Jarry (tennis) form 'Team Panam Sport' as ambassadors for the Americas at Paris 2024.