Brandon Wakeling will be the first Indigenous Australian weightlifter at the Olympics since Sydney 2000.

Rower James Rook is on track to be the "first male coxswain to cox an Australian women's eights at an Olympic Games."

Now a team veteran, Estonian Johanna Talihaerm looks to be a role model for newcomers at training camp ahead of the new biathlon season.

​Veteran Italian pairs figure skaters Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise have persevered through tough challenges to look toward Beijing 2022 and a likely last season.

"And I'm very fortunate to say that I'm an Olympian now". Bryson DeChambeau is excited to join the men's golf field at Tokyo 2020.

The International Judo Federation announces its official list of qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020, including Israel's Raz Hershko, star of the 17 Seconds documentary.

Relative newcomer Justine Wong-Orantes made enough of an impression with her serve reception to earn libero selection for Team USA volleyball selection.

Now moving past from a try to reach Tokyo 2020, can London 2012 and Rio 2016 triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee conquer "SUB7" in the Ironman distance?

Now joining an exclusive membership of five-time basketball Olympians, Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird headline Team USA's women's team for Tokyo 2020.

​And...the U.S. men's basketball team looks set, too. (Only three athletes with Olympic experience!)

Modern pentathlete Arthur Lanigan-O'Keefe goes out a class act.

Karateka Antonio Diaz is honored to be a flag-bearer at Tokyo 2020's Opening Ceremony, and also represent Venezuela in his sport's Olympic debut.

​Team USA's Ginny Fuchs won't let missing out on the two previous Games - and an affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - stop her from Tokyo 2020 goals.

Can veteran Ryoto Yamagata make it through Japan's national track & field championships to lead the strong 100 meters contingent?

And, can one of these athletes win a rare Olympic medal for their nation in track & field this summer?

Norway's alpine skiing men's team worked on mental toughness through training with the national Coastal Ranger Commando squad.

Team Great Britain's vaunted cycling team is in a new era of guidance, but looking for more of the same Olympic success this summer.

More cycling: Lithuanian track star Simona Krupeckaite is headed to her fifth Olympics, and looking forward to a more relaxed approach.

As a member of Team USA's Olympic soccer team, Rose Lavelle will go from being an Olympics-watching "sports junkie" to an Olympian as role model for the sport.

Australia's Tim Atherton centers the not-uncommon pandemic-fueled havoc that's happened across Olympic qualification over the last year, with baseball hard hit.

If you need a reminder on what the Olympics can mean, for athletes and their communities, take a listen to Bill Dardis of Team Ireland's rugby sevens. "...kids that are going to start playing rugby, maybe, after seeing us play at the Olympics...it's pretty cool..."

Can PR Sreejesh emulate a past hero and bring back Olympic glory to Indian field hockey?
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Jin Jong-Oh is headed to his fifth Olympics this summer with the opportunity to become the sole leading all-time Olympic medalist for South Korea.

Go behind the scenes of Jake Mitchell's unique, stressful, and ultimately successful, time trial to make USA's swimming team for Tokyo 2020.

Pride Month: Three-time Olympic swimming medalist Jeremie Stravius headlines a group of six French athletes to come out as LGBTQ in the We Need to Talk documentary.

Kai Kazmirek is a study in throwing.

Gergo Siklosi takes a breather.

Usain Bolt with a Father's Day family portrait...

Oleg Zernikel is focused.

Elena Lopez stops traffic.

Get used to sprinter Sha'carri Richardson: "bold, brash, and the best American hope in the 100 meters".

It's been 17 years and four previous Olympics, but sprint legend Allyson Felix confirms a fifth Games appearance after a tumultuous last few years.

"Nigeria's fastest man", Enoch Adegoke, makes a bold promise for Tokyo 2020's sprint competition.

Tokyo 2020 weightlifting's latest qualification confirmations include Albanian Erkand Qerimaj, who's been competing at the Worlds since 2003.

"Gold would be cool": Australian skateboarder Shane O'Neill looks ahead to the sport's Olympic debut.

Is swimming superstar Katie Ledecky vulnerable at these Olympics? The 1500 meters freestyle is the race to watch.

In a U.S. trials full of news, here's a odd trivia note...Michael Andrews is set to become the first U.S. swimmer to compete in both breaststroke and non-I.M. events.

It's a new record - 80 countries will be represented in rowing at Tokyo 2020, inclduing newcomers Ivory Coast, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, and more.

Meanwhile, Beijing 2008 gold medalist rower Lindsay Shoop is now a self-help author, with "Better Great than Never", stressing the values of hope, possibility, positivity, and kindness.

Pennslyvania News Today looks at archer Casey Kaufhold, booked for Tokyo 2020 in both individual and now team events.

In its only second Olympic appearance since 1972, can Team Norway's men's handball team rise to the success level of the women's team?

​Get to know the short track speed skating brothers, Shaoang and Shaolin Liu of Hungary, "bound by a fierce commitment on the ice".

Rafael Nadal plans a reduced schedule in tennis, unfortunately including from Tokyo 2020.

Love Island reality star Greg O'Shea's turn from celebrity to focus on rugby pays off with Ireland's rugby sevens Olympic qualification.

Another Beijing 2008 Olympian - and world’s best soccer player? - Cristiano Ronaldo becomes even more of an Instagram star.

After marriage and motherhood, can midfielder Zhang Xin continue a soccer comeback and lead China to Tokyo 2020 success?

More soccer: Dani Alves headlines a typically strong Brazilian men's team. And he's excited, too.

Will 40 year-old Pau Gasol be a part of Spain's Olympic basketball team again?

Get to know Rae Lin D'Alie, Italy's 3x3 basketball star and game-winning shot heroine.
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At only age 23, Amber Hill will be the veteran member of Team Great Britain's Olympic shooting contingent this summer.

​Will we see new U.S. Open golf champion Jon Rahm at the Olympics this year?

​Gymnast Sam Mikulak opens up about his mental health: "I started therapy thanks to Michael Phelps, and wish I'd done it earlier."

Pride Month: Kayla Miracle will represent the U.S. at Tokyo 2020, and become the first-ever publicly out wrestler at an Olympics.

Australia's women's water polo team "has gone bush" in training with aims to represent all of Australia.

Clearing the backlog and watching CBC's "My Story" on judoka Antoine Valois-Fortier, who's looking for a second Olympic medal after multiple surgeries and a tough Rio 2016.

More Canada: Skateboarder Matt Berger is relishing the opportunity the sport has being in the Olympics for the first time.

The badminton world pays homage to Beijing 2008 gold medalist Markis Kido, who passed unexpectedly at age 36.

Team USA basketball gets another lift with Draymond Green's early playing commitment alongside Damian Lillard.

The race for final qualification spots heats up in women's golf, as Finnish, Swiss, and Chinese players jockey for position over the last two weekends.

Can Ireland's women's field hockey team make needed improvements ahead of Tokyo 2020?

Rio 2016 medalist Laurie Hernandez may be done with elite gymnastics, but she's planning on staying still in the sport as an active and positive influence.

Meanwhile, another striking cover feature story for Simone Biles, in Glamour.

Former Major League Baseball star Masahiro Tanaka is added to the home team for the Tokyo 2020 tournament, in hopes of securing a first gold medal for the team.

Garrett Muagututia: U.S. volleyballer has an Olympic (flag-bearer) pedigree.

Relive the Olympic Channel's "Flag and Family" episode featuring Austria's Alexandri triplets - Anna Maria, Elrini, and Vasilki, who are fresh off winning an artistic swimming duet spot at Tokyo 2020.

Pride Month: Tokyo2020-bound diver Jordan Windle's LGBTQ ally-ship is personal. Happy Father's Day!

At the U.S. swimming trials...Lydia Jacoby becomes the first Alaskan swimmer to make an Olympic team.

Georgina Rowe is set to be the "feel-good story of Tokyo" as the Olympic debutant rower for Team Australia, after taking up the sport a year ago. (And breaking an indoor rowing world record)

More rowing: Peter Purcell-Gilpin had to wait an extraordinarily long time for Olympic qualification in single sculls for Zimbabwe.

Team Great Britain's boxing team will feature a pair of brothers, Pat and Luke McCormack, who pushed each other for recent qualification.

After a notorious ski jumping crash last season, Norway's Daniel Andre Tande is back at training.

Manika Batra's training camp commitment helps pace India's table tennis Tokyo 2020 preparations.

U.S. Olympians Alexander Massialas and Nick Itlin appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live to give a fencing lesson.

​Middle-distance runner Shelby Houlihan's positive drug test rocks the track world.

As the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials get underway, here's a great interview with current sprint legend Allyson Felix from The New York Times Magazine.

Connor Bell's dream has come true as the discus thrower will join national hero Dame Valerie Adams on New Zealand's Tokyo 2020 team.

Athletics for a better world, indeed...anyone looking for sports inspiration should read World Athletics' profile on refugee athlete Angelina Nadai Lohalith, who will make her second Games this summer.

Tanya Watson became the first Irish female diver to qualify for the Olympics last month.

Korey Dropkin has Beijing 2022 dreams, but the young U.S. curler has to get over the hump of Olympic champions first to get there.

Belgian teen Jente Hauteekeete bursts onto the decathlon scene with a u20 heptathlon world record.

Habibat Ogunbanwo is a FINA scholarship holder, sharing her passion for swimming.