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Let's Get Social 07.19.24

7/16/2024

 

(Winter) Olympic Sports Athletes On (Summer) Social Media

Patrick Baumgartner stands high.
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Lewis Gibson has a beach day.
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Joey Mantia's still got it.
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Valentina Margaglio has some summer vibes.
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Eric Radford reflects.
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Let's Get Social 05.24.24

5/24/2024

 

Peeping at Olympic Sports' Stars' Social Feeds...

Hikaru Mori channels Elsa.
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Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde try to act normal.
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Alex Szoke takes in a day at the track.
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Bryden Hattie is a college graduate.
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Valentina Margaglio is still exploring Egypt...
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Let's Get Social 05.17.24

5/17/2024

 

What Are Olympic Sports' Athletes Up To On Social Media?

Congrats, Rhasidat Adeleke (again)!
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Valentina Margaglio hangs out in Egypt.
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Just call Ashleigh Johnson and co. 'Swifties' now...
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Hello, Loic Meillard!
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Ilona Maher shows off some muscles.
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A Little Roundup 05.09.24

5/9/2024

 

A News Roundup Featuring Olympic Sports' Stars

Artistic swimmers are "energized and excited" after inaugurating Paris 2024's Aquatic Center last week.

□Athletes share their take on the new Aquatic Center for #Paris2024 after 3 amazing days of #ArtisticSwimming World Cup! □ pic.twitter.com/wz7LvffCcW

— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) May 6, 2024
"Just enjoy handball itself", is the advice soon-to-be four-time South Korean Olympian Eun-hee Ryu has for future players.

Freestyle skier Jakara Anthony's 'record-breaking campaign' in the 2023-24 season earned her both Australian and FIS honors.

BiathlonWorld​: Get to know rising Slovakian biathlete Ema Kapustova.

Check out some of the 'world famous, incredibly popular' basketball players headed to Paris 2024.

Double Olympic champion Candace Parker with Team USA basketball gets a new plum post-playing role with Adidas.

Olympic sports' stars Angel Reese, Ben Simmons, Dwyane Wade (basketball), Nelly Korda (golf), and Serena and Venus Williams (tennis) were amongst the Met Gala 2024 attendees. (umm...don't forget London 2012 tennis medalist Maria Sharapova, too...)

"Clever, clear thinking" Idalys Ortiz is the latest Olympic judo champion to be featured in a Q&A by IJF.

Beijing 2008 Olympic soccer player Stuart Holden chats with FIFA on Team USA's chances at Paris 2024, and much more.

Will 19-year-old Jessica Dertell become Team Australia's 'youngest-ever Olympic dressage athlete'?

Count Rio 2016 weightlifter Oleksander Pielieshenko as another fatal victim of Russia's war in Ukraine.

Road cyclist Grace Brown is the latest Off the Podium podcast interview: Paris 2024, Tokyo 2020, university degrees, and more.

IOL: Get to know Paris 2024-aspirant breaker Courtnae Paul of South Africa.

Premio Princesa de Asturias de los Deportes 2024: Badminton star Carolina Marin gets a high honor at home in Spain. (in Spanish)

Olympics: Swimmer Yusra Mardini hopes the world welcomes the Olympic Refugee Team with 'open hearts and minds'.

Get to know Team Italy's Sara Curtis, the swimmer 'breaking records and barriers'.

Evy Leibfarth looks forward to saying, 'whatever happens, I gave it my all' in the debut of kayak cross at Paris 2024 this summer.

Who are the 'stars to follow' in women's wrestling at the final Paris 2024 Olympic qualification event?

'A series of blockbuster performances in 2023' has made Rosa Maria Tapia Vidal a potential podium medalist in triathlon this summer at Paris 2024.

What does table tennis' mixed doubles field for Paris 2024 look like now, with qualification complete.

Team Kuwait's Mohammad Aldaihani finally catches up to his father at age 40 with an imminent Olympic appearance in skeet shooting.

Valentin Bontus has gone from 'class clown' to a Paris 2024 podium threat in sailing's formula kite class.

"It's an honor to be able to compete alongside her." Brazilian gymnastics star Rebeca Andrade looks ahead to going up against legend Simone Biles at Paris 2024.

Retired Olympic gymnast Nile Willson offers thoughts on'what makes a champion'.

Double sculls rower Matteo Sartori is World Rowing's 'rower of the month' for April 2024.

Benson Kipruto will have fallen teammate Kelvin Kiptum in mind when he takes to the streets at the Paris 2024 marathon.

​If middle-distance runner Jye Edwards makes a return to the Olympics, it'll be the result of 'overcoming setbacks and self-doubt'.

Sprint star Noah Lyles may agree with track legend Carl Lewis on a 4x100 relay lineup...but won't Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley, and others have an opinion?

FIBA3x3.com looks back at Teams Netherlands and Australia success - and Teams Lithuania and Canda shortfalls - in recent Paris 2024 3x3 basketball qualifying.

R.I.P.: ISU pays respect to Dutch Olympic champion figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra.

'Estonian luge is back' with the promise of riders Emma Triin Seer and Katariina Theresa Tomingas.

Retired tennis Serhiy Stavhoskiy talks military service, Ukrainian footballers, and more in a wide-ranging interview. (in Ukrainian).

Pyeongchang 2018 skeleton athlete Elisabeth Maier keeps her family's interest in clean sport going.

Former Canadian skeleton athlete and current IBSF Co-Chairperson of the Athlete Advisory Committee, Elisabeth Maier, joins @IntTestAgency as member of the Education Ambassador team. □

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— IBSF (@IBSFsliding) May 7, 2024

A Little Roundup 03.21.24

3/21/2024

 

A Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News

Can Danish canoe marathon champion Mads Brandt Pedersen successfully make a switch to Olympic canoe sprinting?

□️ “I’m training with a lot more high intensity now."

Mads Pedersen has spent the European winter in Australia in his bid for a place at the Olympics □□

Check out what the Danish paddler had to say in the latest episode of our Planet Canoe Podcast □️□ https://t.co/RmDSYL7wzu

— Everything canoe, kayak, and SUP (@PlanetCanoe) March 18, 2024
Is an Olympic medal on tennis star Coco Gauff's vision board, er...note? You bet.

What are some of Team Canada's favorite Team Canada moments?

World Aquatics goes 'inside the minds' of Martina Terre and Unai Aguirre to learn more about top water polo goalkeeping philosophies.

Former junior champion Tomoka Miyazaki's breakthrough senior-level world tour win has the badminton rising star hopeful for bigger things to come.

Meanwhile, Spanish badminton champion Carolina Marin is still 'a force to be reckoned with' despite recent injury setbacks.

Could NBA star Donte di Vincenzo suit up for Team Italy basketball?

Check out Team Brazil gymnast Rebeca Andrade in miniature form!

Get to know open water swimmer Marc-Antoine Olivier in the latest Extraterrien podcast. (in French)

Seven straight Olympics isn't in the cards for star sports shooter Kim Rhodes, but does Los Angeles 2028 beckon for 'the most successful female shooter in Olympic history'?

American cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins sees an "incredible" end to the world cup season with two Crystal Globes.

Jose Larocca may be 55-years-old, but the 'honored equestrian athlete' still has Olympic ambitions.

Fiji-born Eileen Cikamatana is Team Australia's 'new Olympic Amazon'.

Team Ireland's long sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley missed out on Tokyo 2020...which just spurred 'resilience'.

"The Olympics is basically an expression of who you are as an athlete." Triathlete Kenji Nener has hopes to breakthrough with Paris 2024 qualification for Team Japan.

Who are the current leading skateboarders in the Olympic Qualifier Series rankings before the last two stops later this spring?

Can Sofia Raffaeli withstand the 'intriguing challenge' from a slew of fellow elite rhythmic gymnasts at the first real Olympic season test?

Play True Award: Triple skeleton Olympian Ben Sandford honored for his career 'contributions to the anti-doping movement'.

​Which PanAmerican rowers found success at the latest Olympic regatta last week?

IJF's 'The Olympic Champions' series returns with a look at Moscow 1980 champion judoka Robert Van De Walle of Belgium.

How have recent weeks affected the current world rankings in field hockey?

Road and mountain bike cyclist Peter Sagan's road to Paris 2024 gets trickier after more heart concerns.

How is Cody Simpson balancing the demands of elite swimming Paris 2024 hopes with a music career?

​Team Zimbabwe's retired Rio 2016 swimmer Sean Gunn talks Olympics, competition, and coming out as LGBT with Outsports.

An Olympian comes out as gay. https://t.co/uqHZiHoLH2

— Outsports (@outsports) March 18, 2024
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