Team veteran Walker Zimmerman thinks Team USA should, and can, reach for gold in men's soccer at Paris 2024 this summer. (p.s. it hasn't started well...)

Meanwhile, fellow soccer player Tierna Davidson has some thoughts on playing alongside controversial teammate Korbin Albert on the USWNT for Paris 2024.

Insult to injury: Was Team Argentina men's soccer team a victim of a robbery?

Team Canada's Adriana Leon was once a promising ice hockey player; now she's an Olympic soccer champion and ready for another Games.

Can Honoka Hayashi use her international experience to help Team Japan make amends for its disappointment at Tokyo 2020's women's soccer tournament?

Who are the UCLA Bruins-connected Olympians competing at Paris 2024?

Golfer Shane Lowry now wants to "win a medal for Ireland" at Paris 2024 after a disappointing end to last weekend's British Open.

​So...what's Team USA golfer Nelly Korda been up to since winning Tokyo 2020 gold?

Team Australia has a unique pair of entries into Paris 2024's golf event: siblings Minjee and Min Woo Lee.

FIBA has some thoughts on the 'absolute must-watch players' at Paris 2024's men's and women's basketball tournaments.

AP: Sisters Satou and Nyara Sabally plan to 'soak in every experience' at Paris 2024 as they help lead Team Germany's first-ever Olympic women's basketball appearance.

Kevin Durant's Paris 2024 start with Team USA basketball will depend on a "big collaboration".

Team USA's Brittney Griner's Paris 2024 trip marks a symbolic return to Europe for the basketball star.

More Team USA women's basketball from Yahoo! as Diana Taurasi gets credit for being the 'all-time greatest competitor' in sports.

"What is important is to be at the Games and show that we are strong and that we are doing better." Refugee Team taekwondo athlete Dina Pouryanes is proud to reach a second Olympics.

Meet Michelle Tau, taekwondo Olympian for Team Lesotho...and once a beauty pageant champion.

More taekwondo as CJ Nickolas tells Teen Vogue how his own journey to the Paris 2024 Games started alongside his mom on the mat.

FIG showcases which artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline gymnasts are 'poised to make Olympic history' at Paris 2024.

Daiki Hashimoto wants to have "no regrets" as he leads Team Japan in men's gymnastics once again at an Olympics.

The Players' Tribine: Gymnast Jordan Chiles is 'paving the way for the next generation of athletes'.

BMX star Logan Martin has an unfortunate turn of events en route to Paris: a van break-in in Belgium.

How do BMX'ers Ross Cullen's and Beth Shriever's leg power compare to track cyclists'?

Laura Brown won an Olympic medal in track cycling's team pursuit at Rio 2016; now she's breaking stereotypes as coach to Team Canada's men.

"Overwhelmed with emotions" is how Giorgia Cesarini felt upon being named as Team San Marino's first-ever female Olympic archer.

If world-ranked number five archer Eric Peters can medal at Paris 2024, it'll be history for Team Canada.

Cameroon-born boxer Cindy Ngamba shares her journey to reach Paris 2024 for the Refugee team.

It took a coach's patience, picking up a packet or two, and finding 'fun-filled activities' to bring diver Grace Reid back to elite form and energy, and onto an Olympic team.

Diver Max Bouchard reflects with Outsports on how coming out as LGBT helped him make it to Rio 2016: "I hope that sharing my story helps anyone who needs to read it".

"It's a feeling that never gets old. It will never lose its shine." Diver Scarlett Mew Jensen reflects on her Olympic nomination alongside synchro partner Yasmin Harper.

To what lengths did Indonesians Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu go to prepare for a gold medal badminton bout at Tokyo 2020?

Surfer Caroline Marks already has a world championship...is an Olympic title in store for the 'prodigy'?

For Lara Dallman-Weiss, sailing is a family affair that she extended to her friends...now she's a two-time Olympian set to compete in mixed 470.

Also inspired by family in the sport, kitesurfer Toni Vodisek looks to bring his father's own Olympic dreams into his Paris 2024 experience.

It's "a dream come true" for Maximilian Marterer as the German earns a late addition to the tennis draw for Paris 2024.

"I get emotional thinking about it." Tennis' Coco Gauff reacts to being named one of Team USA's flag bearers for tomorrow's Opening Ceremony.

Zheng Qinwen is a calmer and more relaxed player as she headlines Team China's tennis delegation at Paris 2024.

Double Olympic champion Andy Murray makes a fateful and emotional tennis career decision with Paris 2024 looming.

Dennis Bowsher competed at London 2012 in modern pentathlon; now he's on his third Games as a coach, and as an active-duty U.S. soldier.

"It feels crazy. It feels insane." Skateboarder tries to wrap her head around heading to an Olympics.

Seoul 1988 fencer Otto Drakenberg is recognized for his long-time advocacy for LGBTQ+ athlete inclusion in sport.

Watch out: Leading triathlete Alex Yee has had a 'perfect preparation' ahead of Paris 2024.

SCMP: Melbourne 1956 swimmer Wan Shiu-ming may not have won a medal, but his performance 'put Hong Kong on people's lips'.

Is Team Romania swimming star David Popovici regaining form just in time to fulfill expected potential at Paris 2024?

With Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus, and Summer McIntosh, will Paris 2024's women's 400-meter freestyle final be the 'race of the century'.

South Korean swimmer Kim Woo-min gets surprise support from, well, an unusual source.

Eight swimmers are named as flag bearers for Paris 2024's Opening Ceremony.

​Katie Grimes may be Team USA's 'most versatile swimmer' at Paris 2024.

Is Team Cuba's four-time Olympic wrestling champion Mijain "El Terrible" Lopez on his way to a landmark fifth straight gold?

ITTF ponders if table tennis legend Ma Long will make Paris 2024 his farewell event...and if it will be with a gold medal again.

37-year-old sport shooter Christian Reitz is a two-time Olympic medalist and headed to his fifth Games for Team Germany looking for more.

​What are the chances that Team Poland can 'defy odds' and make a significant mark at Paris 2024's 3x3 basketball tournament?

Rower Lola Anderson's road to Paris 2024 was helped in part by her late father's push of inspiration.

Team Ireland's Philip Doyle is World Rowing's 'rower of the month' for July 2024.

Go Handball  has some respect for three 'living legends' of the sport closing out their international careers at Paris 2024: Mikkel Hansen, Nikola Karabatic, and Stine Oftedal.

Xenia Smith hopes to lead Team Germany to an inspirational finish in Paris 2024 women's handball, 16 years after its last Olympic appearance.

Congrats to Team Argentina's Pablo Simonet (handball) and Pilar Campoy (field hockey) on their Olympics-inspired engagement! (in Spanish)

Team USA's Ally Hammel is poised to be the first Boston University Olympic field hockey player.

​Giselle Ansley is enjoying a new experience balancing learning and mentoring as she embarks on a third Olympics in field hockey.

Tokyo 2020 champion judoka Lukas Krpalek is 'trying to stay grounded' as he seeks to defend his title.

Want a story of perseverance? Meet judoka Marie Laborde, whose defection from Cuba delayed her Olympic debut from Rio 2016 to Paris 2024.

Luukas Saha's last-minute qualification to Paris 2024 shows that Team Finland's judo program is on the upswing.

Rugby sevens player Fancy Bermudez has an 'inspiring journey' to share with the CBC.

Emily Campbell's 'positive outlook' includes a direct challenge to top Team China rival Li Wenwen...and targeting body positivity...in Paris 2024's weightlifting.

Equestrian great Charlotte Dujardin has a chance to reach a historic medal mark at Paris 2024...until a late suspension and abuse investigation has seen her withdraw from Team Great Britain.

FEI​ recaps the athletes of the 'class of Paris 2024' in the upcoming equestrian disciplines.

Tokyo 2020 champion canoeist Isaquias Guimaraes Queiroz isn't just focused on Paris 2024...he's got on Los Angeles 2028 as well.

Multi-Olympic canoeist Pavlo Altukhov looks forward to enjoying "only pleasant expectations" at his third Games. (in Ukrainian)

Road cyclist Derek Gee had a surprise Tour de France top 10 finish...now the avid birder takes momentum into Paris.
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Ukrainian Mexico City 1968 volleyball champions Volodymyr Ivanov and Viktor Mikhalchuk look back at that tournament and their time with the Soviet national team. (in Ukrainian)

Seven national teams across volleyball and beach volleyball can credit FIVB's Olympic Solidarity program for rising sports federations for powering their road to Paris 2024.

British running legend Paula Radcliffe wades into a firestorm around a controversial Dutch beach volleyball player.

"Gold is all I have in my head now." Middle-distance runner Keely Hodginkson looks to turn her current good racing form into a top Paris 2024 podium finish.

Vox: Paris 2024 'could be everything' for U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles.

Long sprinter Laviai Nielsen will arrive in Paris for Team Great Britain with key momentum..and her sister.

"It should be exciting." Tokyo 2020 champion Karsten Warholm gives a strong understatement previewing the Paris 2024 men's 400 meter hurdles race, if everything goes to plan.

Will track sprinter Daryll 'Miss Momentum' Neita carry that nickname onto a Paris 2024 podium?

After a tough qualification attempt, hurdler Andrenette Knight takes solace in at least making it to Paris 2024 in Team Jamaica's relay pool.

Grazia: Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith is pushing herself "physically, mentally, emotionally".

World Athletics: What has pole vaulter Molly Caudery's 'path to Paris' been like?

USATF chats with distance running phenom Hobbs Kessler: from high school star to Paris 2024 Olympian in a few short years.

Is a Neil Gourley in the 'best shape possible' a runner that can medal at Paris 2024?

Long sprinter Alica Schmidt tops The Sun's list of 'sexiest Olympic athletes at Paris 2024'...though the editors need to double-check the national team entries actually competing.

The Conversation reflects on 'the first Africans at the Olympics', St. Louis 1904 marathoners Len Tau and Jan Mashiani of South Africa.

If you've forgotten what impact the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had on promising athletes, The New York Times has a story of former youth decathlete Volodymyr Androshschuk for you...

Bonus! Tokyo 2020 medal-winning fencer and musician Alex Choupenitch...with help from some fellow Team Czechia friends...takes us on a 'Long Haul' just ahead of Paris 2024. (in Czech)

p.s., we haven't forgotten to check in our Winter Olympic sports friends...

Alpine skier Alice Robinson has gotten used to a nomad life for half the year, training in Europe and away from home New Zealand.

How does Romanian-Canadian speed skater Alexandra Ianculescu stay in shape?

What's biathlete Franziska Preuss' typical start of the week routine?

Track & field athlete-turned Olympic bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer first considered the sport switch after coming across the seminal "Cool Runnings".

How has snowboard legend Shaun White built 'a $65 million empire'?

Let's put on a show! Team USA Nordic combined and ski jumping stars join forces to help draw attention to their sports.

Red Bull​: Athlete, model, student...freestyle skiing champion Eileen Gu enjoys a "multifaceted" life.

​Athlete to watch: Will we see now-15-year-old figure skater Kate Pressgrove at Salt Lake 2034 after helping with the bid's sales pitch?
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​FIL: What has Olympic luge medalist Barbara Niedernhuber been up to recently?

What does tennis star Coco Gauff want to say to her 2021-self as she heads to Paris 2024?

Vogue Adria posits that tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is 'the greatest of all time'.

Indian Atlanta 1996 landmark tennis medalist Leander Paes counts that experience as particularly momentous in his hall of fame career.

What does tennis' Marcus Daniells look forward to in a potential IOC Athletes' Commission role?

Did Team Mongolia win the gold in Paris 2024's Opening Ceremony outfit competition?

Here's hoping field hockey player Matt Dawson gets a podium finish in exchange for his finger...

Can Taylor Knibb's remarkable prowess on the bike be key to a triathlon podium finish in Paris?

Will Team Japan women's gymnastics captain Shoko Miyata be able to compete in Paris 2024?

Max Whitlock is ready for a "fairytale ending" to his star gymnastics career at Paris 2024.

How did gymnast Brody Malone recover from a 'devastating injury' to help lead Team USA to Paris 2024?

Is Team France's women's gymnastics team for Paris 2024 peaking at the right time?

Tokyo 2020 champion gymnast Sunisa Lee thinks she 'has more in the tank' for another podium run.

The Japan Times: Get to know sport shooter Misaki Nobata, the 'sniper from Oita'.

Internationally-inexperienced BMX rider Vincent Leygonie just hopes to make South Africa 'proud' with his Paris 2024 performance.

Is Sewon Ozakawa the 'LeBron James of boxin'g?

Who are some of the partnered couples competing at Paris 2024?

Diver Yona Knight-Wisdom's captaincy role for Team Jamaica at Paris 2024 is a landmark one.

Oleksiy Sereda may be recovered from injury, but the diver acknowledges missing key training as he heads to a second Games appearance, with more responsibility.  (in Ukrainian)

Sarah Levy and Stephanie Rovetti aren't just rugby sevens teammates, they're also University of St. Augustine colleagues.

Can Yuki Isikawa lead Team Japan to a long-awaited return to the Olympic men's volleyball podium?

ESPN argues that swim legend Michael Phelps - who thinks he isn't too far off his heyday form - is the 'top professional athlete since 2000'.

Will Team China be the most drug-tested squad for Paris 2024's swimming competition?

Australian Isaac Cooper reflects on mental health challenges that temporarily derailed a budding swim career.

Rebecca Shorten's Olympic rowing career started with blowing off chemistry studies....

Rower Molly Goodman is part of unique Australian sporting history, as her triathlete brother Tom makes the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

"It's like a poison for the body." High jumper Kateryna Tabashnyk talks with CNN about persevering in the sport despite the war-caused tragedies at home in Ukraine.

Was not making another Olympics in the long hurdles a "blessing in disguise" for Irishman Thomas Barr?

World Athletics features some of the recent NCAA track & field champions who made it to Paris 2024.

"It's just nice to know that there's not one route to make it to the Olympics." Middle-distance runner Georgia Bell quit the sport just five years ago.

Team Kenya's mixed relay sprint squad members seem to be taking their Olympic challenge seriously.

Atlanta 1996 sprint champion Donovan Bailey does have certain thoughts about the Paris 2024 competition.

Australian sprinter Torrie Lewis isn't content with making it to the Olympics, she wants to make a mark.

Who might Team Ukraine's Paris 2024 medalists be this summer? (in Ukrainian)

A random college night out was the catalyst for jump starting breaker Sunny Choi's Olympic career.

Might Paris 2024 provide a major championship title (finally) for NBA basketball star Joel Embiid?

Speaking of Embiid...how confident is he that Team USA will win basketball men's gold?

Did you know that basketball superstar LeBron James is a big fan of biking?

Meanwhile, Team Canada's men have their ambitious eye on the basketball podium at Paris 2024.

How surprised was Team USA's Kahleah Copper at making it to Paris 2024 basketball?

Guess you can say that Australian basketball star Patty Mills still has enough of a competitive fire...

Making it to Paris 2024 meant basketball player Derrick White gave up a Cabo San Lucas vacation...

Off the Podium checks in with Team Australia's rhythmic gymnastics group: will Paris 2024 be a ground-breaking one?

Meet first-time sailing Olympian Hannah Snellgrove, part folk-singer and Cambridge graduate.

Team Afghanistan has only one Paris 2024-bound athlete competing inside its Taliban-controlled country: judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad.

Ukrainian wrestler Zhan Beleniuk is ready to face Russians at Paris 2024, but there's a limit.

Luca Kumahara: A table tennis player makes an Olympic return...in a new role and with a new identity.

Team India's table tennis players may not be content with just making it to Paris 2024's team events.

Keep the Flame Alive hosts Team USA's Paris 2024-bound fencers inits latest podcast.

Inside the Games: Who are some of the teenaged 'athletes to watch' at Paris 2024?

Alannah Yip 'learned a lot' since Tokyo 2020...does the sport climber have momentum to challenge for the podium at Paris 2024?

​What has it been like to reach Paris 2024 for sport climbers Jenya Kazbekova and Yaroslav Tkach while their home Ukraine is under siege?

The World Triathlon Sprint & Relay World Championships concluded this weekend in Hambiurg, Germany as part of the annual World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS). While the cumulative six-stop WTCS usually crowns individual world champions in the standard / Olympic triathlon distance, the mixed relay world champions were crowned at this one WTCS stop.

2024 marked the second time, after Montreal in 2022 and Hamburg 2023, that this scheduling format was used, holding the relay championship within the overall WTCS. Host Team Germany won the 2023 team relay title.

And the Germans successfully secured another title at home, with Henry Graf, Lisa Tertsch, Lasse Luhrs, and Annika Koch topping the field, including other podium finishers Teams Switzerland and New Zealand. Tercsh and Luhrs are scheduled to compete at Paris 2024...though with many Paris 2024-bound athletes skipping this event, it's unclear how much momentum might have been gained.

Congratulations to the 2024 medalists! Complete results can be found online at wtcs.triathlon.org.

2024 ​World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championship Medalists

Team Germany: Henry Graf, Lisa Tertsch*, Lasse Luhrs*, Annika Koch |

Team Switzerland: Max Studer*, Julie Derron*, Simon Westermann, Cathia Schar* |

Team New Zealand: Taylor Reid, Ainsley Thorpe*, Dylan McCullough*, Nicole van der Kaay*

*scheduled to compete at Paris 2024

"It's honestly amazing, a dream come true." Long sprinter Sharlene Mawdsley finally gets the Team Ireland call for an Olympics.

What does a recent 2,000 meter world record portend for runner Jessica Hull's chances for a medal at her second Olympics?

1500-meter champion runner Freweyni Hailu didn't make the cut for Team Ethiopia's Paris 2024 roster, and has something to say about it...

Team Canada: Will hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg 'highlight his tremendous rise at Paris 2024'?

Is a sports drink to blame for sprinter Issam Asinga not making it to Paris 2024 for Team Suriname?

Get to know Dutch rising star on the track, Niels Laros, who's headed to Paris 2024 on a roll and pipping his father's legacy in the process.

​Sprint legend Allyson Felix takes her maternal advocacy to a new stage with an Olympic nursery.

Kenyan sprinter Zablon Ekwam is feeling 'no pressure' ahead of his Paris 2024 400 meters competition.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh's world record inspires Sport24 to check in with fellow Ukrainian high jump star - and Athens 2004 medalist - Vita Styopina. (in Ukrainian)

British Virgin Islander Adaejah Hodges set to inspire fans back home with a Paris 2024 sprint appearance - at just 18-years-old.

Canadian track star Marco Arop isn't afraid of world record talk in the 800 meters.

I count four Olympians on the winners list from last week's ESPYS: Simone Biles (gymnastics), and A'ja Wilson (twice!), Luka Doncic, and Dawn Staley (basketball).

​Skateboarder Chloe Covell details a 'love of the sport' to Vogue Australia.

USA TODAY offers a look at an 'A-Z' recap of some of Team USA's standout Olympians over the last 11 Summer Games.

At one point, boxer Aidan Walsh had only 45 minutes to decide if he wanted a go at a second Olympics...

For the Win gives us 'five facts' about U.S. NBA basketball player-turned beach volleyball Olympian Chase Budinger.

Should Team USA basketball fans be concerned about star Kevin Durant's 'calf strain'?

NBA player Rui Hachimura wants to use that elite basketball experience to make impact for Team Japan at Paris 2024.

​Will the Paris Olympics be the breakthrough forbudding Team USA soccer star Jaedyn Shaw?

Meanwhile, Team Australia seems to be limping into Paris 2024's women's soccer tournament.

"We have quite real chances to prove ourselves." Kiril Fesyun leads Team Ukraine's landmark hopes for Paris 2024's men's soccer tournament. (in Ukrainian)

Olympics: Did you know retired team handball star Luc Abalo is now an 'Olympian Artist'?

Get to know sport climber Toby Roberts, set to make history for Team Great Britain at Paris 2024.

Triathlete Elizabeth Bravo targets "the best Olympic Games of her career". (in Spanish)

Who are some of the French stars at Paris 2024 carrying 'the weight of a nation'?

New Zealand gymnast Georgia-Rose Brown looks to fully enjoy her Olympic experience at Paris 2024.

Who is Hezly Rivera, Team USA gymnastics newcomer set for an Olympic debut this summer?

The University of Bath will be well represented at Paris 2024 as student swimmers Henriques Mascarenhas, Ridhwan Mohamed, and Tobi Sijuade will represent their respective countries alongside six others who train at the Bath pool.

WWD: How does star swimmer Caeleb Dressel 'prepare for that moment'?

Team Australia's Sm Short would have welcomed embattled swim rival Sun Yang into the Paris 2024 pool as he targets multiple medals.

National Post: Swimmer Summer McIntosh is a 'TikTok-watching, Drake-listening, mall-shopping teen'.

The saga around figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping ban continues with a court date for Team Canada just ahead of the Paris Olympics this summer.

Team Chile has a table tennis star - Zhiying Zeng - who will make an Olympic debut at age 58(!).

Will Jerry Tuwai's - and his sidestep's - return to Team Fiji be the key for another rugby sevens gold at Paris 2024?

With an inspirational push from soccer star Mohammad Salah, can Ahmed Elgendy improve upon his Olympic silver medal at Paris 2024?

Tokyo 2020  - and now double Grand Slam - tennis champion Barbora Krejcikova reflects on the influence of triple Olympic medalist Jana Novotna.

Can Irish golf star and Olympian Rory McIroy bounce back from a disappointing US Open at the British Open with lessons learned?

Hook & Barrel has a 'special salute' to Team USA's sport shooters headed to Paris, including Vincent Hancock, Conner Pinze, and Dania Vinzi.

"I don't think that I'd ever get a higher honor." Sport shooter Elenia Galiabovitch reflects on a unique Tokyo 2020 experience while aiming high for Paris 2024.

Think you've had an eventful life? Meet Cuban-born Refugee Team sprint canoeist Fernando Dayan Jorge Enriquez...

Rodrigo Conde thought he might be done with canoeing after Tokyo 2020, but his partnership with Aleix Garcia sees the two headed to Paris 2024 for Team Spain. (in Spanish)

Eights rowing champion Tom Mackintosh has a new challenge for Paris 2024: trying for another gold, but in the single scull.

Marloes Oldenburg is headed to Paris 2024 for Team Netherlands rowing, just two years after a near-fatal bike accident.

Guadaloupian fencing star Enzo Lefort gets a feature treatment from Financial Times.

We're only 14 days away from the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games! (And only 12 days from the start of actual competition!)

And I've got loads of sport-by-sport questions needing answers as the Games unfold. Who will make the podiums? Who will be the breakout star(s)? The underdog hero? On and on...

But there is definitely a lead story line I'll be following across each of Paris 2024's 32 sports - check them out below. I can't wait to find out what transpires...and to see some of these unfold in person at the Games!

What are yours? Let me know in the comments...

And keep an eye on my 'A Little Roundup' posts on this site to stay in touch with select news items and headlines featuring Olympic sports' athletes as the Games approach.