Team USA swimming star Katie Ledecky and multi-event track & field star Jim Thorpe receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The Olympics once included medal awarding for the arts?

USA TODAY: Basketball star Brittney Griner's 'humanity' is revealed in her Coming Home memoir.
Time: 'Fred Richard is Team USA's next Olympic hope for men's gymnastics.'

"I was so close to retiring." Gymnast Alice Kinsella recounts drastic side effects from acne treatment.

Team USA gymnast Jade Carey speaks with International Gymnast about a "pretty crazy" last few years.

Tokyo 2020 champion golfer Nelly Korda is hoping for some of that year's "good juju" to come back in time for a title defense this summer.

Will Team Ukraine athletes avoid "provocative actions" with Russians and Belarusians at Paris 2024?

Cuban beach volleyballers Noslen Diaz and Jorge Alayo have risen rapidly - and surprisingly - in Olympic qualification ranking, and "will keep on working" to make it to Paris 2024.

Casey Kaufholld wants to reach 'Michael Jordan status' within her sport of archery.

Evgeny Marusiak looks back on a successful ski jumping season for Team Ukraine with Sport24. (in Ukrrainian)

British London 2012 champion rower Anna Wadkins has words of advice for athletes transitioning into retirement.

Diver Pam Ware had a 'disastrous' Tokyo 2020 experience. She's rebuilt her confidence.

Will Lewis Clareburt become the first Maori swimming Olympic medalist (and break out the 'pukana')?

As Team Great Britain's incoming first-ever Black female swimmer, Eva Okaro is 'ready to inspire'.

"This is really cool. I want to swim in the Olympics, too!" Get to know Paris 2024-bound Greek swimmer Stergios Bilas. (in Greek)

Hong Kong swimmer Camille Cheng knows firsthand the mental toll of elite competition.

Congrats! Team USA soccer star Carli Lloyd announces her pregnancy with her first child.

'The best is yet to come' for sprinter Erriyon Knighton as he prepares for Paris 2024.

Long sprinter Luka Janezic is the latest featured interview on the Timax podcast. (in Slovenian)

Track legend Michael Johnson eyes a new era in track & field promotion with a new league.

Defending 100-meter sprint champion Marcell Jacobs hopes a recent 'quiet life' will help his title defense.

Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse chats Paris 2024 and 'giving back to the athletics community'.

Olympics: Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala looks to 'change' Kenyan running.

"I really want to get a medal at the Olympics. It would be much nicer than a world record this year." Javelin thrower Johannes Vetter hopes a frustrating injury-filled last few years are behind him.

Long-distance runner Agnes Ngetich turns her attention a possible Paris 2024 podium as the next target after coming close to a world record in the 10k.

Favoritism? Former Olympic long hurdler P.T. Usha under fire in her roleas president of the Indian Olympic Association.

Team Bahamas sprint hurdler Devynne Charlton offers her world record-setting singlet into posterity.

Disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson maybe doesn't feel so much disgrace anymore.

Meet the 36 athletes that make up the Olympic Refugee Team for Paris 2024, competing across track & field, judo, swimming, road cycling, canoeing, boxing, taekwondo, badminton, shooting, wrestling, breaking, and weightlifting.

Team Spain's Paco Cubeles may have multiple global medals in canoeing, but looks for a first Olympic podium this summer. (in Spanish)

Daniel Repacholi seeks to the rare Australian federal minister of parliament to be an active Olympian.

Tokyo 2020 road cyclist Masomah Ali Zada has 'dreams of a Refugee Team medal' at Paris 2024.

A change in weight division has been a 'weight lifted' for Team India boxer Lovlina Borgohain.

Boxer Harry Garside is prepared for all the sacrifices it takes to best prepare for Paris 2024.

Daria Bilodid's 'champion mindset' was back on display at the recent European Judo Championships, captured in a special photographic moment.

Olympics: Get to know Nikoloz Sherazadishvili, the Georgian-Spanish judoka 'from two nations'.

'Visibility among the elite matters so much.' Sport climber Campbell Harrison is unapologetic in his status as an openly LGBT athlete.

Speaking of which...who are some of the openly LGBT athletes Out is tracking ahead of Paris 2024?

Players Barbara Arenhart, Emily Bolk, and Yahia Omar offer thoughts on the team handball competition at Paris 2024 for IHF.

Greenlander biathlete Ukaleq Astri Slettemark has unique insight into the effects of global warming.

Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki's Olympic ambitions may depend on a successful clay court season.

Time: American tennis star Coco Gauff is 'playing for herself now'.

Olympic medalists Simone Biles (gymnastics) and Novak Djokovic (tennis) are among the 2024 Laureus Sports Awards honorees.

Queerty: How does gymnast Heath Thorpe feel about the new code of points for the next cycle?

Who were the gymnasts to qualify for Paris 2024 at the last World Cup event in Doha last week?

"Being a water polo player is always a pleasure for me." World Aquatics checks in with veteran player Felipe Perrone.

Embattled wrestler Frank Chamizo gets justice - of some sort - after a notorious Olympic qualifier loss.

Who are the 'crews to watch' at the last European Olympic Qualifier in rowing?

IFSC has a 'conversation with' British sport climber Molly Thompson-Smith.

World record: Beijing 2022 ski jump champion Ryoyu Kobayashi sure can fly.

American Venice-based soccer players Gianluca Busio and Tanner Tesmann have high hopes for Team USA at Paris 2024.

Dutch-born judoka Kim Bolling's competitive nationality change to Italy all came down to family.

Congrats: Basketball star Caitlin Clark is the first two-time winner of the AAU Sullivan Award.

3x3 basketball gold medalist Kelsey Plum's divorce makes the social gossip pages.

Pole vault legend Renaud Lavillenie looms large in pole vault legend Armand Duplantis' early Olympic viewing memories.

Irish sprinter Israel Olatunde may just surprise himself again, with Paris 2024 qualification this time after a down year in 2023.

If golfer Lydia Ko can win gold at Paris 2024, she'd complete a unique collection of Olympic medals.

Planet Canoe looks back at the 'outstanding performances' in canoeing and kayaking at Tokyo 2020.

Andorran Iria Median Girones isn't just a rising Alpine skier; she's also a dedicated student.

Alpine skiing great Marcel Hirscher looks to unretire...and compete for Team Netherlands in his return.

FEI: Equestrian Alisa Glinka 'is ready to take Moldova to very highest levels of dressage competition'.

This season has so far highlighted the continued brilliance and dominance of road cyclists Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel.

Team Australia great Penny Taylor reflects on her playing career with FIBA.

FIH says goodbye to Eva Drummond-De Goede, Margot van Geffen, and Olivia Merry as the three field hockey players end their careers.

Danas Rapsys gets 'brave in his body'.

Francesco Bonsanto takes in some sun...

...as does Cynthia Bolingo...

Stefanos Ntouskos gets a plum assignment.

Liu Shaolin gets some rest in amidst the rain.

Pablo Martinez puts his workout in technicolor.

Harry McNulty makes a lift.

Emil Iversen has a training pal.

Stefan Kraft does apres-ski in style.

Jack Woolley has a very Paris photoshoot.

It's award season for Evangelia Platanioti.

Timi Jajc hangs out in Japan...

...while Jiri Prskavec does Australia.

Darja Varfolomeev gets artsy for her sport in a photoshoot.

Andre De Grasse catches a home game.