Figure skaters Anastasiia Smirnova and Danil Siianytsia are a rising young pair in the United States, with hearts and minds back in Ukraine during the on-going war.

What do Olympic figure skaters Dylan Moscovitch and Kirsten Moore-Towers think of the current stalling in the Kamila Valieva saga from Beijing 2022?

Which athletes will win the 2023 ISU Skating Awards for figure skating on February 5th?

"Of course go to the Olympics, push for that all day long." Team Ireland boxer Amy Broadhurst sets any professional ambitions aside for now.

Tokyo 2020 star Dani Alves - the oldest-ever Olympic men's soccer medalist  - lands in legal trouble.

New International Luge Federation athlete representatives include Leon Felderer, Summer Britcher, and Anna Berreiter.

Team Canada's Steven Samkos joins an exclusive club in the National Hockey League with his 500th goal.

NCAA gymnast Olivia Dunne speaks to The Today Show on her 'rise to social media fame'.

Team Germany's gymnast Karina Shoenmaier is 'adapting' her debut experience at the recent worlds to steer her toward Paris 2024.

How do Team Netherlands short track speed skaters Sjinkie Knegt and Suzanna Schulting 'push each other to greater heights'?

Who is Alex Chan, the 'Spaniard making history for the U.S. at the 2023 World Handball Championship'?

After Olympic bronze in Tokyo, Team Australia's men's basketball now eyes a first World Cup podium.

Biathlon World: 'Five burning questions' for rising star Lou Jeanmonnot.

Freestyle skier Rachael Karker relishes the 2022-23 season without the pressure of Olympic preparation.

Team USA: Sylvia Hoffman had a childhood dream of becoming an Olympian...bobsledding got her there.

Gustav Iden and Flora Duffy receive their 'Triathletes of the Year' awards for 2022.

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn 'fulfills a lifetime dream', taking on the legendary Streif course in Kitzbuhel.

'Drawn to each other', the cross-sport friendship between Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin and tennis star Iga Swiatek continues to develop.

A year on from a horrific training accident, road cyclist Egan Bernal is back for the 2023 season.

Athens 2004 diving champion Chantelle Newberry faces fresh charges in a new run-in with the law.

Scandal is brewing in Team India wrestling, as Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malki, Anshu Malik, Bajrang Punia, and others, claim harassment from a very high source...

Sharni Williams wants to 'prove age is just a number' as she aims for a third Olympics in rugby sevens.

Sprint hurdler - and hopeful NFL star - Devon Allen checks in with NBC Sports on his busy 2022 in 'football, fresh starts, and family'.

After fleeing Tokyo 2020, Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya gets support from the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Long distance runners Eliud Kipchoge and Faith Kipyegon are the 2022 'Athletes of the Year' in Kenya.

'The leading Greek track and field athlete of all time': Pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi gets a feature interview with Apex Sports. (in Greek)

Sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and hurdler Rasheed Broadbell are the 'National Sportspeople of the Year' for 2022 in Jamaica.
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Sport climber Adam Ondra shares his thoughts on the first free climb of the Macocha Abyss.

Matt Weston's European championship helps 'banish' his Beijing 2022 demons in skeleton.

Sky News checks in on youth figure skater Gosha Mandziuk, who has resumed training in Kyiv despite the opportunity to escape the war in Ukraine.

Olympic figure skater and commentator Johnny Weir gets ISU Awards hosting duties next month.

Rising tennis player Holger Rune pens a blog for ITF: "(Winning) Grand Slams is the natural step for me".

CNN.com​: Tennis star Ons Jabeur, beach volleyballer Doaa Elghobashy, fencer Ibithaj Muhammad, and modern pentathlete Aya Medany are just some of the Muslim women to have "opened doors for a new generation of athletes".

Team Poland's men's volleyball team recognized as 'Team of the Year' back home for 2022...while beach volleyballers Anders Mol and Christian Sorum did the same in Norway.
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Biathletes Sturla Holm Laegreid and Ingrid Landmark Trandrevold are two athletes leading calls from Norway to address increasing climate change impact.

Olympians Miho Nonaka (sport climbing) and Haylie McCleney (softball) make the shortlist for the World Games 'Athlete of the Year' award for 2022.

Getting corny: Soccer superstar Lionel Messi gets a unique honor in Cordoba, Argentina.

More soccer as Team Iceland's Sara Bjork Gunnasrsdottir gets personal in The Players' Tribune on her experience with pregnancy while a competitive athlete.

Who will win the inaugural Global Triathlon Awards tomorrow? Team France, apparently, for one...

Judo great Teddy Riner is using a training camp in Kazakhstan on his road back to competition.

FIG: Rhythmic gymnast Stiliana Nikolova is 'embracing new chances in the new year'.

With two European golds, are Team Belgium's Hanne and Stijn Desmet the latest super short track speed skating siblings?

Will 2023 be the 'toughest season' yet of top-ranked Viktor Axelsen's badminton career?

Weightlifters Forrester Osei, Hidilyn Diaz, and Luisa Peters are elected to the IWF Executive Board.

Swimmers Joshua Liendo and Summer McIntosh win Aquatics Canada Aquatiques' 'Athlete of the Year' honors for their successes in 2022.

Doaa Al-Ayoub made taekwondo history at the age of six...and has done it again at the age of eight.

Newly retired Kurt Baker ponders his prolific rugby sevens career as he begins a new sporting chapter.

Olympics.com: At Paris 2024, skateboarder Gustavo Ribeiro wants "revenge on (his Tokyo 2020) results".

Beijing 2008 Olympian Marcie Lane (van Dusen) now leads equality efforts at a new program for girls' wrestling in Wyoming.

Go #OfftheMat in a 'Day in the Life' of wrestling champion Jordan Burroughs.

Flashback: Canoeist Saul Craviotto could become Team Spain's most-ever decorated Olympic athlete at Paris 2024...MujerHoy checked in over the holidays.

Boxer Khadija Mardi fought past difficult life moments to achieve success in the ring for Team Morocco.

Meanwhile, London 2012 champion Katie Taylor's marquee boxing match against Amanda Serrano wins Ring Magazine​'s 'Event of the Year' honors for 2022.

Speed skater Nil van der Poel won the top prize at Sweden's annual Idrottsgalan Awards, which also honored table tennis pair Mattias Falck and Kristian Karlsson, golfer Linn Grant, and swimmer Sarah Sjostrom, amongst others. (What...no Armand Duplantis??)

Paula Torres might be next in line for Team Ecuador Olympic race walking, if a new training set-up and recent continental U23 success is an indicator. (in Spanish)

Seeing competing in track & field as a "privilege", Irish long jumper Ruby Millet looks ahead past studies to being able to focus on her sport more.

Sprint hurdler Tiffany Porter blogs us through her 'geriatric' pregnancy.

Recently retired sprint legend Allyson Felix gets her name on her home stadium.

FIBA: How did playing for Team Finland help basketball player Lauri Markkanen 'flip the switch'?

Who were the 3x3 men's and women's players who 'defined' the 2022 season?

London 2012 champion boxer Oleksandr Usyk has a new year's wish for "victory" and "peace" in Ukraine.

Bobsledder Justin Kripps joins the Off the Podium podcast to chat Cool Runnings, Australia, and more.

Royal-blood equestrian rider Zara Tindall missed Rio 2016, but has eyes on making it to another Games.

Team Austria gymnast Selina Kickinger has big goals for 2023, including qualifying for Paris 2024.

Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas still have Olympic gold dreams after falling short in mixed doubles tennis at Tokyo 2020: "We will keep trying".

Tennis.com: Tokyo 2020 Olympian 'Hubert Hurkacz is a nice guy who isn't finishing last'. 

A rising leader of Team France judo, Romane Dicko wants gold at Paris 2024. (in French, paywall)

U.S. Air Force's World Class Athlete Program athletes with eyes toward Paris 2024 represent a variety of sports, including boxing, modern pentathlon, fencing, track & field, shooting, water polo, and wrestling.

Ski jumper Halvor Egner Granerud jumps on the Erling Haaland meditation celebration bandwagon...

Gauthier Mvumbi, the "Shaquille O'Neal of team handball', works with the real deal to promote the sport.

Dylan Schmidt's breakthrough World Championships title was one highlight of the year in trampolining.

What does retired star Arnd Pfeiffer think of the current biathlon season so far?

"Finding balance is the most important thing in my life." Vogue Hong Kong features freeskier Eileen Gu.

Skateboarder Cody French has Paris 2024 dreams despite battling a 'mystery illness'.

Olympic fencer Nzingha Prescod took her skills to the classroom in New Rochelle recently.

GQ Sports on YouTube: What are 10 things hurdler Sydney McLaughlin 'can't live without'?

Intrigue within Team Poland as long hurdler Sebastian Urbaniak and long sprinter Jakub Krzewina have an altercation...and sprinter Ewa Swoboda's home? (in Polish)

Mondo Duplantis' World Championships pole vault world record wins Track & Field News' 'Men's Performance of the Year' for last season...

...and Mondo gets another honor, as he's named AIPS' 'European Sportsman of the Year', alongside women's counterpart Alexia Putellas (soccer).

Steeplechase Mahiedine Makhissi-Benabbad, 'one of track & field's villains', retires.

How has fatherhood given surfer Kolohe Andino a 'new lease of life'?

How did photographer Shaun Botterill capture that image of soccer super star Lionel Messi, the most liked Instagram post ever?

​Tokyo 2020 rugby sevens Olympian Greg O'Shea opens up about mental health struggles: "...I'm in convulsions of tears...".
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Team Chile's field hockey captain Fernando Renz knows the squad will face "huge games" at the upcoming World Cup, but is confident they'll do 'their best'.

Helsinki 1952 swimming champ Joan Harrison-Breetzke has her Olympic medal recovered after a theft.

Team Japan's Rie Kaneto gives back to her sport through swimming lessons to the next generation...

...as does Team USA's Tokyo 2020 gold medalist Zach Apple.

World number four Chou Tien Chen thinks 'fans can expect better' in 2023 from the badminton player.

Triathlete Alistair Brownlee to bring 'an athlete perspective' to the British Olympic Foundation.

Will a partner swap help some of Team Germany's top beach volleyballers confirm Paris 2024 plans?

Tokyo 2020 rower Matt Rossiter has focused his water sports dreams in another direction, as he joins sailing great Ben Aislie's America's Cup crew.

Matthieu Androdias and Hugo Boucheron are World Rowing's '2022 Men's Crew of the Year'.

"I am going to be okay with time." BMX rider Hannah Roberts resets after an injury-plagued end to 2022.

Road cyclist Mark Cavendish's robbery ordeal intensifies in a trial where all suspects aren't accounted for.

Meanwhile, fellow cyclist Ivan Sosa is the latest to find himself on the wrong end of an assault incident.

Taekwondo athlete Jack Woolley is quick to acknowledge the team effort that has lead to his success.

​Ending 2022 with a first-ever career World Cup podium, Alpine skier Paula Moltzan is 'invigorated' for the remainder of the season.

The moment looms large for Alpine skier Mikaea Shiffrin as she nears sole ownership of a key milestone.

'A portrait of a modern ski racer': Catch up with how Lucas Pinheiro Braathen has prepared for the 2022/23 Alpine season.

​Speed skater Brittany Bowe has 'big plans for the future', despite 2023 being a light season for her.

"Now I want to improve myself, develop myself..." Speed skater Jutta Leerdam finds success in the start of a new season following lots of personal change.

Demetrius Lake is the first pro basketball player to compete in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. "I'm a fighter."

Team Serbia star Nikola Jokic is showing this season why he's a "generational talent" in basketball.

Meanwhile, Team Slovenia basketball star Luka Doncic needs a beer...and gets one.

Nauris Miezis, Thibaut Vervoort, Stefan Stojacic, and Strahinja Stojacic are the FIBA 3x3 basketball men's 'team of the 2022 season'.

​Get to know 'fan favorite' Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen in a 'charming chat' with Biathlon World.

Jessie Diggins is now 'the most decorated American cross country skier in history'.

Count triathlete Hamadel Ndiaye as one Senegalese athlete irked by recent soccer World Cup bonuses.

Champion swimmer Katie Ledecky is AP's 'Female Athlete of the Year' for 2022.

"Two Olympic gold medalists, coming together." Olympic swimming stars Missy Franklin Johnson And Crissy Perham form an unlikely, life-saving bond.

Champion swimmer Kyle Chalmers' new tattoo artwork leaves some observers' curious.

'A couple fun soundbites' from Caeleb Dressel include candid comments from the champion swimmer...

Captain Fernando Renz acknowledges the 'long journey' it's been for Team Chile to make it to the upcoming men's field hockey world cup.

Freestyle skier Eileen Gu covers the latest Harper's Bazaar Singapore: 'Overcoming doubt and inspiring a whole generation of girls'.

Short track speed skaters and friends Pascal Dion and Steven Dubois spill the 'inside view' on each other.

Ahead of the Christmas break, Team Ireland checked in with luger Elsa Diamond: "This season has brought a lot of new things for me".

Rhys McClenaghan wins 2022's 'BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year'.

Liisa Turmann credits pair Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill for the surge in Team Estonia curling popularity.

Mouthful: Bobsled legend Felix Loch honored as the 'Sparkassenpreis fur Vorbilder im Sport' of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe in Baden-Basden.

'Vanguard' for Team Canada, gymnast Ellie Black answers a few questions from International Gymnast​.

Newly crowned BBC S'ports Personality of the Year' Beth Mead presses for more study of the prevalence of ACL injuries in women's soccer.

Beijing 2008 soccer Olympian Angel Di Maria honors the World Cup trophy with a new tattoo...

Curious about the details behind long track sprinter Randolph Ross' recent suspension?

Ryoyu Kobayashi may have Olympic gold and dreams of a record Word Cup wins, but is finding it tough-going this season so far in ski jumping.

Kimberly Bos has found that her own skeleton success in 2022 has spurred new interest back home in Netherlands with prospective racers.

Artistic swimming pioneers Bill May and Giorgio Minisini applaud a new era of inclusivity in the sport.
​(I never thought I'd see the day...)

Somewhat curiously, road cyclist Wout van Aert has prioritized the world championships in 2023 rather than the Tour de France.

Luke Mittelstadt is a rising junior player with family roots in ice hockey and eyes on an NHL goal.

Different team, no matter as Isabelle Haak wins the Volleyball Women's Club World Championships MVP award for the second year in a row.

Women's tennis number one Iga Swiatek is 'European Sportsperson of the Year' for 2022.

Tennis star Sloane Stephens answers some 'Rapid Fire' questions on business, advice, her charity foundation, and more.

Tennis.com: 'Dominic Thiem's comeback from wrist surgery is gaining momentum heading into 2023'.

Brittney Griner is back.

Dorian Connix finds some cold weather training.

Eric Radford is always good for some steam...

Jessie Diggins and Julia Kern are definite TikTok users...

Tomas Gonzalez hits the beach.