Maria Silveria is a junior judoka with "big dreams" for next year as she continues to grow in the sport.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency presents '36 Jewish student athletes to watch this year', including multiple Olympic sports juniors.
Olympic Sports Stars Are Making The News
Fellow USA Swimming Olympian Klete Keller gets his probation sentencing for his January 6th insurrection participation.
Will swimmer Tom Dean win five medals at Paris 2024 for Team Great Britain? Despite more 'stable' morale, swimmer Myhailo Romanchuk knows past success will be tough to repeat. (in Ukrainian) Team Australia swimming star Stephanie Rice causes a stir with a life move to Dubai. 'Giving herself grace', U.S. swimming star Simone Manuel is 'getting back to where she wants to be'. Team Canada soccer star Christine Sinclair 'reflects on her record-breaking-career' with CBC Sports. Stalking and harassment? What was Beijing 2008 tennis Olympian David Nalbandian thinking? Meanwhile, rising tennis stars Leylah Fernandez scores in a new, unique partnership with LEGO. Andy Murray, mental health darkness, and more...tennis' Nick Kyrgios has opened up to Piers Morgan. Tennis legend Rafael Nadal finds "the right moment" to finally make his comeback from injury. A stint on reality competition SAS Australia may be the key to Melissa Wu's new confidence in diving. Eduarda 'Duda' Lisboa takes her passion for beach volleyball a step further with a new fashion line. Champion Team Canada lacrosse player Erica Evans has 'happy tears' contemplating Los Angeles 2028. What is gymnast Aurelie Tran's 'strategy' for making it to Paris 2024 with Team Canada next year? What's the connection between Team Canada's women's ski jumping team and...a bee hive? 3x3 basketball star Katie Samuelson has 'unfinished business' with the Olympics after Covid-19 derailed her Tokyo 2020 plans. The Guardian focus a feature on London 2012 volleyball Olympian-turned-filmmaker Savanah Leaf. Tokyo 2020 champion Kristian Blummenfelt has his sights on running under 29 minutes in the triathlon road race portion in his title defense. How did relatively new triathlete Beth Potter make it to the Olympics in a new sport after her Rio 2016 track & field appearance? Finnish double Olympic medalist Sanni Hakala suffers a debilitating injury in an ice hockey match. Team USA: Alpine skier Ryan Cochrane-Siegle is "still a small-town boy from Vermont" despite surprising Beijing 2022 podium success. Will the next U.S. college water polo stars come from New Zealand? Outsports: Rowers Robbie Manson and Emma Twigg, and sport climber Campbell Harrison are the publicly-LGBT athletes that have qualified for Paris 2024 so far... Olympic rower Serhiy Kirsanov talks sport, Kherson, and more with Sport24 (in Ukrainian). Team USA basketball star Kevin Durant is now a Top 10-all-time scorer in the NBA. Sprinter Luguelin Santos is no longer the youngest 400-meter medalist in Olympic history now... The 'lifetime achievement' accolades keep coming for landmark long sprinter Cathy Freeman. With university studies now behind him, sprinter Rohan Browning plans a full-focus on Paris 2024 goals. Paralympian and London 2012 Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius gets a parole date to complete his jail time after his murder conviction. Bahamanian champion sprinter Steven Gardiner is back healthy and eyeing another Olympic gold on the track. Olympics: Sprinters Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles headline the honorees at USA Track & Field's 'Night of Legends'. Speaking of....via NBC Sports: 'What makes up the formula for this phenomenon' of sprinter Noah Lyles? Irish long hurdler Thomas Barr knows that his Rio 2016 performance wasn't a 'one-off' as he prepares for one more Olympic campaign.
The Stars Of Olympic Sports Are Just Like Us, On Social...
Yaroslava Mahuchikh turns for the Elleâ camera.
Charlotte Caslick spent a weekend away.
Heath Thorpe flashed back to some warmth.
Naomi Osaka makes a seaside appearance.
Maryna bekh-Romanchuk takes a pose or two.
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?
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) â 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... A Look At the Social Media Lives Of Olympic Sports Athletes
Johannes Vetter continued a U.S. roadtrip.
Loic Meillard and Yaroslava Mahuchikh drop into NYC.
Arturas Seja wanders high.
Lea Friedrich takes to the court.
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