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Let's Get Social 10.03.23

10/3/2023

 

What Are Olympic Sports Stars Up To On Social Media?

Sarah Lavin and friends wrap up vacation. (Who do you spy?)
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Laura Nolte wraps up her own days away.
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Sophie Becker is another vacationer...
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Boryana Kaleyn gives us a spot of autumnal color.
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Viktoriia Tkachuk takes in a sunset.
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A Little Roundup 10.02.23

10/2/2023

 

Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

'What's at stake' in the long anticipated heavyweight boxing matchup between London 2012 champion Oleksandr Usyk and star Tyson Fury?
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Ukrainian ski jumper Yevhen Marusiak talks tailoring, upcoming plans, and more after a recent record summer performance. (in Ukrainian)

Team New Zealand's star boxer from Tokyo 2020 David Nyike sets eyes on going professional.

Is Irish boxing champ Katie Taylor's 'career on the line' in her rematch against Chanelle Cameron?

"I'm, like, stress-free, finally." Breaker B-boy Victor, or Victor Montalvo, savors Paris 2024 qualification.

Meanwhile, fellow breaker Philip Kim and sailor Sarah Douglas answer '24 Questions' from Team Canada.

More sailing as Hannah Snellgrove may be finally on her way to an Olympic appearance for Team Great Britain after a 'series of setbacks'.

Sprinter Julien Watrin shares his video essay memories of a special team trip to the Himalayas.

Olympics: Pole vaulter Ernest (EJ) Obiena talks being a role model in the 'golden age of Filipino sport'.

Team Poland's Piotr Lisek is a top pole vaulter...and now an MMA fighter? (in Polish)
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Heptathlete Xenia Kriszan's strong world championships performance has her targeting a top six finish at Paris 2024. (in Hungarian)

Olympic champion and current World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe reflects on the recent World Athletics Championships.

"I loved every moment of it." BMX champion Niek Kimmann talks Tokyo 2020, and more, with Owl Sport.

Team Japan's men's curling bristles at cheating allegations from a recent tournament.

Biathlon World: Team Norway's 'uber-talented' Sturla Holm Laegreid has the number one ranking in his sights this upcoming season.

Team France looks at multiple instances of multiple family members excelling in elite sports. (in French)

Will Team Canada women's soccer squad have an Olympic redemption in Paris, like it did in London, Rio, and Tokyo?

Speed skater Ivanie Blondin laces up the short track skates once more.

Team USA basketball star Breanna Stewart won this season's WNBA MVP Award...so, what's the drama?

How did the 'blockbuster' trade that sent NBA basketball star and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks go down?

Skateboarder Margielyn Didal pushes through injury pain to still drive growth opportunities for the sport back home in the Philippines.

Swimmer Pieter Coetze lends his approval for a new 'high performance' academy targeting aspiring fellow South African Olympians.

Swimmers Rikako Ikee and Zhang Yufei close out Asian Games competition in the pool with a special shared moment.

Sports shooter Saurabh Chaudhary was once a Tokyo 2020 medal favorite. Where's he been since?

Did Team South Korea's taekwondo team'provoke' Team China at the Asian Games in Hangzhou?

More South China Morning Post as gymnast Ng Kiu-chung closes a 21-year career: "I really enjoyed it".

Team Canada: Felix Dolci, William Emard, and Rene Cournoyer are helping put Team Canada's men's gymnastics 'back on the map'.

Atlanta 1996 champion Lindsay Davenport gets a high-profile role(s) with the U.S. Tennis Association.

It's the "beautiful battle" with superstar Novak Djokovic that has helped inspire new power Carlos Alcaraz this tennis season.

How did Beth Potter 'start again' to become a world champion in triathlon?

More Team Great Britain triathlon as star Alex Yee talks his start in the sport, and much more on the Amazing Starts Here podcast.

"Training even harder" was what pulled gymnast Felix Dolci from the disappointment of not making it to Tokyo 2020 and focusing on Paris 2024.

If you want to get 'inside the life, training, and tricks' of freestyle skier Birk Ruud, and you read Norwegian, his autobiography is on its way soon...
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A Little Roundup 09.28.23

9/28/2023

 

Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

Ukrainian Rhythmic gymnast Khrystyna Pohranychna talks sport, and family, with Sport24​. (in Ukrainian)
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Lara Culturi and Livio Hiltbrand are two 'Generation Z' Alpine skiers 'ready to enter the world's elite'.

Superstar Simone Biles wades into the turmoil surrounding a past alleged racial gymnastics incident in Ireland.

More Irish gymnastics...as Andrew Steele's "good shot" at Paris 2024 qualification gets closer at the upcoming worlds.

Can Krisztofer Meszaros 'raise the bar' for Team Hungary at the World Gymnastics Championships?

R.I.P. to U18 world ice hockey champion Nic Kerdiles, victim of a motorcycle accident.

Nominations for the 2023 World Rowing Awards are accepted through World Rowing through October 15th...

...and nominate your choice for the 2023 World Sailor of the Year through October 5th.

What are the 'favorite songs of 2023' for some of your favorite Nordic combined athletes?

Don't expect current 3x3 basketball star Jimmer Fredette on an NBA team again.

Who will be the '2023 Winter Sports Athlete of the Year' in Italy? (in Italian)

Team Paraguay's Marizza Faria, veteran of four World Handball Championships, adjusts to a new role.

Diver Matthew Mitcham talks behind-the-scenes on his debut stage role in London with Attitude U.K..

Thai social Media star Pitchamon "Pink" Opatniputh does her best to take her eyes off the phone to focus on badminton.

Team Mexico's landmark Olympic archer Mariana Avitia plots a return to the Summer Games in 2024.

Vincent Zhou reminds us of the injustice continued from Beijing 2022's team figure skating competition.

A disappointing World Athletics Championships set the stage for a season finale comeback for Team Ethiopia long-distance runner Guduf Tsegay.

Speaking of Team Ethiopia running...World Athletics looks at three rising stars having a syccessful season with a road running test just ahead: Diribe Welteji, Freweyni Hailu, and Hirut Meshesha.

"I would like to play them once again." Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal isn't done with the Olympics yet.

Will up-and-coming biathlete Tommaso Giacomel be a star at Milano Cortina 2026?

The only thing possibly distracting Corinne Stoddard from returning to the Olympics in short track speed skating? Her dog Mylo...

Olympics: How has Jakob Schubert stayed so long at an elite level in sport climbing?

Team France's Kaddiatou Diani talks about her Olympic 'dream' in soccer with FIFA.

The Athletic shares some stories fit-for-publication on retiring Team USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe.

Luger Natalie Geisenberger: 'Germany's most successful Olympic winter sport athlete retires.' (FIL)
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A Little Roundup 09.07.23

9/7/2023

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

Sport24 looks at the career of high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, newly crowned 2024 world champion. (in Ukrainian)
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'Great experience' was a strong reward for Refugee Team athletes at the recent track & field worlds.

Cross-country skier Sophia Laukli continues to prove her trail running credentials with a recent key win.

What is retirement like for 'father, businessmand, and author' (and Team Canada short track speed skater) Charles Hamelin?

World Aquatics: Open water swimmer Britta Schengle 'chases her dreams' for Team Aruba.

"Creative, competitive, and tough" player Lara Stadler works to make sure ice hockey grows with opportunity for everyone in Switzerland.

Despite a struggle with last season, skeleton athlete Jacqueline Pfeifer has big eyes on a home worlds this season...and the next Winter Games.

Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan look to "focus on what's ahead" after a medal-chance disappointment the recent badminton worlds.

"Well, my story is a bit long." Konstantin E. van Damme is a well-traveled equestrian show jumper.

IHF has '10 players brimming with potential' who shone at the recent world youth men's handball championships.

Eleven winter Olympians have been recruited as 'Athlete Role Models' for the next Youth Winter Olympics in Gangwon.

Olympic champion Bob Bryan has 'an unstinting desire' to see Team USA atop tennis' Davis Cup again.

The New York Times: Naomi Osaka makes a return to (near to) the tennis courts, but also eyes a 2024 competitive return.

Sebastian Konecki is leading Team Lithuania back to the global stage in men's diving.

"I am hungry for Olympic victory." Team Turkey's taekwondo champion Merve Dincel is not short of confidence - or good form - at the moment.

Around the Rings: What are the chances of boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao competing at Paris 2024?

Austin Reaves is apparently creating 'Reaves-mania' at the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Olympics: How did having deaf parents shape 3x3 basketball player Nauris Miezis' career?

Who are some rising soccer stars to watch at the South American FIFA World Cup qualifiers?

"Coaching became my way of contributing to the game In love." Former volleyball player Mohammad Yousuf Sadeq shares his road to coaching.

Team China sends an early and strong message of power to beware of at Paris 2024 at the current world championships in weightlifting.

Malkhas Amoyan, Arsen Harutyunyan, and Vazgen Tevanyan are a trio looking to emulate Artur Aleksanyan's championship success for Team Armenia wrestling.

Biathlon World: Benedikt Doll remains 'fascinated by biathlon's many riddles', even after 13 years on tour.

Vancouver 2010 biathlon medalist Vincent Jay gets a key role in a 2023 Winter Olympics bid.

Forbes has 'the redemption story' of Olympic judoka Peter Paltchik.

Meanwhile, IJF checks in with Sydney 2000 champion judoka Severine Vandenhende.

Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy expands his acting credits as he gets 'salacious' in a new music video.
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A Little Roundup 08.17.23

8/17/2023

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

24-year-old high jumper Dmytro Nikitin is set for his World Championship debut after a late call-up and a scramble to train and prepare. (in Ukrainian)
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"Our athletes need to be at the Olympics." Team Ukraine's Olympic Committee president Vadym Gutzeit opens the door to its Paris 2024 participation. Or...maybe not...

​"I want to go out and do my best in Budapest." Middle-distance runner Perina Lokure Nakang has found a 'new lease on life' via the Refugee Team.

Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar talks 'mamba mindset', Rubik's Cubes, and much more with Sportstar.

Will sprinter Julien Alfred be St. Lucia's first Olympic medalist?

Runner Sifan Hassan talks role models, rivals, and more with retired great Paula Radcliffe in Split Times.

'Athletes have the power to change the world': Fellow sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce on using her voice in Laureus.

More from Kyodo...as Team Bulgaria's Tokyo 2020 rhythmic gymnastics champion 'Diamond Girls' made a recent special return visit to Japan.

Read up on 'a day in the life' of rising Team USA junior tennis player Cooper Williams.

Players' Tribune: Tennis champion Iga Swiatek offers 'a story of a Polish introvert'.

Wimbledon tennis finalist Ons Jabeur gets words of support from 'idol' Andy Roddick.

"It's hard not to blame myself." Team Australia star Samantha Kerr talks disappointment at the FIFA Women's World Cup.

Busted: The accolades keep coming for Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde's strong 2022-23 Alpine skiing season.

Can Team Great Britain's equestrian eventing 'Dream Team' leverage last weekend's European success into Paris 2024 gold?

London 2012 triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee offers a defense of the worth of hosting a large multi-sport event.

Speaking of London 2012's triathlon...that was a "hugely inspiring moment" for Tokyo 2020 triathlon medalist Alex Yee, as told to Maurten.

"Excited to be able to watch the games on TV", retired field hockey star Martin Haener has some thoughts on Team Germany's prospects at the European Championships. (in German)

UIPM: What do some youth athletes think of modern pentathlon's new obstacle racing discipline?

IJF's 'The Olympic Champions' series catches up with Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 gold medalist Shohei Ono.

Champion snowboarder Chloe Kim feels ready to get back on the slopes...

Twins Djordje and Petar Ciuksa I Jelicic are burgeoning stars in handball for Team Spain.

FIBA: Can Luka Doncic carry Team Slovenia to its first FIBA Basketball World Cup podium?

Is politics a second career for retired Team USA and NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade?

And...keep an eye on budding basketball star, 6'11" 18-year-old Matas Buzelis.

Who are the top offensive players on the men's FIBA World Tour this season so far?

"Passion and a sense of urgency: I can see both of them, living inside of me." Swimmer Bruno Fratus gets real with The Owl Post.

South Korean swimming star Hang Sun-woo accused of being "naive" in not reporting a hit-and-run.

Queerty: What's once-potential-groundbreaking-Olympic swimmer Michael Gunning been up to since retirement?

What has the transition to coaching been like for Tokyo 2020 rowing medalist Marieke Keijser?

Can you name the ice hockey Olympians who have played for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks?

Biathlon World has 'five burning questions' for Team Germany biathlete Hanna Kebinger.

Credit goes to road cycling star Tadej Pogacar for being an active team player for fellow Slovenians.

Meanwhile, a 'better work-life balance' was key to Team Belgium cyclist Lotte Kopecky's massive success at the World Cycling Championships.

Sport climbers Shauna Coxsey and Sean McColl help lead the 'first-ever IFSC Athletes' Forum'.

Dutchwoman Xandra Velzeboer had a 'dreamy' 2022-23 short track speed skating season; ISU asks her how she did it.
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