Tiaan Whelpton gives us a pose in black.
Venus Williams hangs in Milan.
Romane Dicko stands proud.
Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield get down.
Happy Birthday, Sky Brown!
Olympic Sports Athletes Are Making The News
Who made the final Team USA roster for Paris 2024?
Redemption may be in store for Team El Salvador's Oscar Ticas, as the archer makes it to Paris 2024 after a Rio 2016 debacle. Will Team Denmark help star Mikkel Hansen retire on a high in men's team handball at Paris 2024? Refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini makes an emotional return to the site of the beginning of a new era in her life and career. Team Botswana swimmer Adrian Robinson can credit scholarship from World Aquatics for pushing him to Paris 2024. Team USA and WNBA basketball star A'ja Wilson uses baked goods to show her LGBT allyship. Wait...how many crystals will be on Team USA's women's gymnastics' leotards this summer in Paris? "My first goal is for everyone to complete our task and come home safely." Team Singapore equestrian rider Caroline Chew approaches her second Games with a clear mind. Compartmentalizing her husband's role as coach and partner has helped Belgian Lara de Liedekerke-Meier reach a landmark win in equestrian eventing. Axel Clerget shares his thoughts on how fellow judokas are preparing for Paris 2024 in these last weeks. Can Griffin Colapinto learn from past mistakes to conquer Paris 2024 surfing in Tahiti? Remembering when Margaret Murdock won the first Olympic medal by a woman in sport shooting... Kate Knifton's qualification to Team USA's rowing team for Paris 2024 fulfills a decades-long family quest to reach an Olympics. More rowing as World Rowing checks in with retired single sculler Marcel Hacker, Team Germany's iron man of the sport who lasted 25 years in competition. And even more: Rowing siblings Martin and Valent Sinkovic are preparing for Paris 2024 to be the "toughest Olympics for (them) so far" in their quest for a fourth medal. Atlanta 1996 soccer player Santi Denia has new role with Team Spain...as head coach for the Paris 2024 squad, and he has high hopes of a podium placement. Elodie Claivel and Valentin Paredes are just two of the modern pentathlon stars featured in the latest A Passion for Paris episodes from the UIPM. What do some of Paris 2024's elite triathletes think of the swim portion of their sport, revealed in World Triathlon's latest Dare to Dream episode. (Let's hope we have a swim portion in Paris!) It's a "dream come true" for Alex de Minaur making it to Paris 2024's tennis tournament. Making Team USA's Olympic sailing roster for the first time in three tries, Hans Henken will be leveraging his aeronautical education to hopefully an advantage. Which table tennis players have reached a total of seven (!) Olympic Games? How did "rebellious" diving legend Greg Louganis survive childhood tumult on his way to an elite career Not just Hugo Keenan...Andrew Smith also has a switch to rugby sevens story to talk about for Team Ireland ahead of Paris 2024. Ice Hockey athlete to Watch: Star of the 2023 U18 men's worlds Macklin Celebrini goes first in the 2024 NHL Draft. National Post: Get to know 22-year-old canoeist Sophia Jensen, about to make her Olympic debut for Team Canada this summer. Retired biathlete Selina Gasparin uses her experience to 'shape her sport' in Switzerland. What does the men's weightlifting field look like for Paris 2024? Runner Cole Hocker's 2024 season is tracking nicely as a comeback, after a couple of years plagued by 'injury sidetracks'. World Athletics explores long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall's 'authenticity'. "Track is my life..." Vogue checks in with Team USA star sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson... ...while British Vogue has a 'candid' feature with heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson... ...and Vogue Mexico chats with Team Venezuela triple jump star Yulimar Rojas, whose injury derails her Paris 2024 plans. Will defense of his 1500 meter Olympic title be a "walk in the park" for star runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen? He may not have made it to Paris 2024, but Team USA elite sprint hurdler Trey Cunningham achieves another milestone...coming out publicly as LGBT. "The key is not to get nervous." 800 meter-runner Adrian Ben has a knack for getting into major championship finals. (in Spanish)
A Quick Look At Olympic Sports Athletes In The News
"I consider it my mission to prevent them from getting on the podium." Ukrainian wrestler Iryna Kolyadenko considers the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes at Paris 2024.
Time Out Sydney checks in with rugby sevens star Charlotte Caslick, headed to her third Olympics.
Like mother, like daughter...Ashley Hoffman follows family history in making it to an Olympics in field hockey for Team USA. Tennis.com looks at the legacy star Andy Murray has built as his career winds down. Gymnast Frederick Richards felt "pretty cool inside" as he worked his way through the recent U.S. Olympic Trials. Tokyo 2020 U.S. gymnast McKayla Skinner creates stir with some unneeded comments on current Team USA gymnasts. Team USA star LeBron James certainly does have gold on his mind for this summer's Olympic basketball tournament in Paris. Meanwhile, some surprises were made in Team Australia's squad announcement for men's basketball. Boxer Kellie Harrington realizes her second Olympics will be a lot noisier than her first. Paris 2024-bound triathlete Beth Potter isn't slowing down in the waning weeks before the Olympics. â"It's crazy because I never would have expected this." Skateboarder Ruby Lilley wraps her head around Paris 2024 qualification with Team USA. Aneli Mauley Marena Whittle aren't just trailblazers as part of Team Australia's first Olympic women's 3x3 basketball team...but as partners in life, too. Olympics: Weightlifter Yekta Jamali Galeh has a mission...to inspire other women in sport. Equestrian eventer Andrew Hoy may not make it to Paris 204 for his ninth Olympics, but is Los Angeles 2028 or Brisbane 2032 in the cards? A fourth-place finish at Tokyo 2020 is what has driven rowers Emily Craig and Imogen Grant to Paris 2024. Team Greece's Andreas Vazaios reflects on his start in swimming...and the road ahead, in The Owl Post. Stockholm 1912 swimming champion Malcolm, er, Champion's gold makes it back to New Zealand...finally. SI.com: Caeleb Dressel is a 'changed swimmer' as he heads to another Olympics this summer. A turn of events in Australian v U.S. beef in swimming as Aussie James Magnussen publicly defends American legend Michael Phelps. Who are the Tokyo 2020 swimming medalists that will be back in an Olympic pool this summer? Team GB: What are five things that have shaped sport climber Molly Thompson-Smith? "I think that sport is brutal sometimes." Ola Kalucka pips her twin sister for a last sports climbing spot at Paris 2024 for Team Poland. Aron Szilagyi may have had some 'false starts' in his athletic career, but he's eyeing a fourth individual Olympic fencing title this summer. Will Team Japan sabre fencer Misaki Emura add an Olympic title to her two world championships? "The Olympic rings are colored again." Golfer Joost Luiten makes it to Paris 2024 after getting a lawyer and the Dutch court system involved. âSaya Sakakibara and Logan Martin are taking very different Tokyo 2020 experiences with them into Paris 2024 as part of Team Australia's BMX squad. Champion sailor Matt Wearn talks tattoos and battling long Covid-19 with The Sydney Morning Herald. Oleksiy Sereda heads to Paris 2024 for Team Ukraine, despite 'a bit of a glitch' in fitness. (in Ukrainian) "It's an honor not just to run or myself but for my country." South African long sprinter Lythe Pissay relishes a trip to Paris 2024 with an eye on a relay medal. New Jamaican sprint star Kishane Thompson has at least one super fan already...his mother. CBC: Middle-distance runner Marcos Arop is 'ready to rise to the occasion' at Paris 2024. She may not be competing at Paris 2024, but champion triple jumper Yulimar Rojas will still represent Team Venezuela. What does running great Hicham El Guerrouj think of current star Jakob Ingebrigtsen's record chances? Will middle-distance runner Djamel Sedjati experience success in front of the legions of Team Algeria fans in Paris? Javelin thrower Kara Winger is ready to 'retire with peace' after not making Team USA for Paris 2024. Greek long jumper Louis Tsatoumas looks back at a career with Athlete Stories. Will Team Canada 'make a splash' at Paris 2024's women's water polo tournament this summer? Tokyo 2020 champion Richard Carapaz continues to make history for Team Ecuador in road cycling, now at the Tour de France. (in Spanish) More Tour de France as cyclist Julien Bernard's "dream moment" in Stage 7 earns him an unusual fine. Out looks at 40 LGBTQ+-out athletes to root for at Paris 2024. Will Team Nigeria table tennis newcomer Fatima Bello 'make impact' at Paris 2024? Chinese star Wang Manyu - and table tennis - sure do have some passionate and dedicated fans. Judoka Tatsuru Saito will have his father - double Olympic champion Hitishi Saito - by his side in memory as he chases his own judo title this summer in Paris. "An Olympic medal is the dream I've been chasing all of my life." Judoka Francisco Garrigos' goal remains the same for Paris 2024 after a Tokyo 2020 letdown. (in Spanish) A Classy Look at a Class Act's Final Match
Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024) A Quick Film Review I'm not 100% convinced that Federer: Twelve Final Days, recently released on streaming service Amazon Prime, was "originally a home video never intended for public viewing". Okay, parts...but with high production value and many direct interview commentaries, Federer sure does feel polished and intentional. ![]()
We don't learn anything particularly new in Federer - perhaps the greatest tennis player ever comes to term at age 41 with his now-chronic knee problems and announces his retirement in September 2022. The tennis Hall of Famer and ardent Olympian then has less than two week before a final match alongside longtime friend and rival Rafael Nadal.
And, while the documentary is billed as the tennis legend's 'twelve final days' of his career, it really boils down to his final match - that well-documented Laver Cup in London. I hope all that's not overly critical, because Federer really offers a poignant, personal, and cinematic closure to Federer's on-court reign. I choked up during the Laver Cup portion! Plus for me, it's a nice bookend to tennis writer Christopher Clarey's brilliant The Master, a 2021 treatise on Federer's career that I only finally read earlier this year. In addition to revisiting that overall emotion of the Laver Cup, nice, generous moments fitting of his image include Federer giving deference to tennis hero Bjorn Borg, Federer's kind, rational perspective on Novak Djokovic's intrusion into the Federer - Nadal narrative ("I look past the media and see the man that he is"), and Nadal's own acknowledgement on "the most important player in my tennis career". Federer's release was timed fittingly just ahead of this year's Wimbledon, the tournament Federer won eight times and the one with which he was most identified. It's a welcome revisit to one of tennis' all-time greats.
Olympic Sports Athletes Are in The News
"I promise you will not be bored." Noah Lyles gets a featured treatment in Time.
"It's all good." Star heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson feels fit enough to take on another Olympic run this summer to hopefully secure a long-awaited medal.
Athletics Weekly: Team New Zealand's 1500 meter-runner George Beamish 'isn't afraid of re-writing the history books'. How was sprint hurdler / bobsledder Lolo Jones' return to the track Olympic trials? "Terrifying". Canadian hammer thrower Camryn Rogers isn't backing away from medal expectations at Paris 2024 this summer. Triple jumper Ana Peleteiro sometimes lets her mind jump ahead to having a second Olympic medal come Paris 2024. (in Spanish) World Athletics looks back at long-dtaance running great - and Olympian - Ingrid Kristiansen's record-breaking 5,000 meter run. The Athletic looks into discus thrower Valerie Allman's 'newfound energy' she heads to Paris 2024. Biathlon great Johannes Thingnes Boe shares his 'Olympic mentality' with Esquire Middle East. Paris 2024-bound wrestler Hannah Taylor gets hometown support celebrating her journey. Team Slovakia biathlete Paulina Fialkova is readying for a return to the circuit after a maternity time-off. Is swimmer Kate Douglass destined to have a breakthrough summer at Paris 2024? How is a rubber chicken helping swimmer Matt Temple train for elite competition? Team Great Britain swimmer Tom Dean has revamped Paris 2024 expectations with plans now including just one individual race. Vogue Philippines: Weightlifting champion Hidilyn Diaz is 'looking for the next chapter of her life'. Will surfer Tyler Wright be fully fit in time to compete in Tahiti at Paris 2024? Who are Team New Zealand's 'top-ten medal hopes' at Paris 2024? Golfer Jason Day acknowledges a 'selfish' sense in skipping Rio 2016, as he looks for a 'brag' opportunity at Paris 2024. "I can't wait to face them." Team France basketball star Victor Wembanyama eyes a potential match-up against the vaunted Team USA's stars. Team Japan's number one goal in gymnastics this summer at Paris 2024? Men's team gold... Emily Ausmus caps a remarkable rise in water polo from the junior ranks to elite level with a spot on Team USA for Paris 2024. Team Ecuador sports shooter Marina Perez's path to a third Olympics may have been the roughest afterbattling self-confidence doubts. (in Spanish) Can sports shooer Kishmala Talat win Team Pakistan's first Olympic medal by a woman? Even more sports shooting as Team Great Britain's Amber Rutter is "so happy" to reach Paris 2024 just a few months after giving birth. And more (!) as an 'administrative error' correction denies sports shooter Andrea Palafox a spot on Team Mexico she thought was hers. (in Spanish) Can the memory of her father help track cyclist Sophie Caldwell lead Team Great Britain to a landmark team sprint medal at Paris 2024? Is Dearica Hamby the 'perfect replacement' for Cameron Brink for Team USA's 3x3 basketball at Paris 2024? Team Australia's all-time Olympic Opening Ceremony flag bearers receive special recognition from their prime minister. British road cycling star Mark Cavendish gears up for a final Tour de France - really - as he strives for one more stage win. U.S. skateboarder Nyjah Huston is approaching his second Games with more maturity as he looks for a first medal. Rio 2016 Olympic tennis player Sloane Stephens is up for a community award at the upcoming 'ESPYs'. Jack Woolley is headed to his second Olympics, and looking forward to a having in-person support to help him feel 'happy and excited'. USWMNT star Sam Mewis offers her thoughts on the Paris 2024 squad...er...Korbin Albert's inclusion. "Waiting for that call was brutal." Team Ireland Jake Passmore relishes finally getting a green light for the Olympics this summer. Tokyo 2020 triathlon champion Kristian Blummenfelt thinks he has figured out the secret to beating top rivals at Paris 2024. Qualifying for Paris 2024 together has only made sailors - and sisters - Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance closer. So...why exactly is Steven van de Velde's beach volleyball qualification to Paris 2024 making headlines? How are Team Spain champion judokas Nikoloz Sheradishvili and Francisco Garrigos preparing for Paris 2024? (in Spanish)
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