What Are Some Olympic Sports Stars Up To On Social Media?
Nauris Miezis takes a walk on the beach.
Hello, Trey Cunningham with a throwback!
Mutaz Essa Barshim documents a pilgrimage.
Cynthia Bolingo strikes a pose (or two).
Gus Kenworthy and co. wrap up a Rio trip.
The Stars of Olympic Sports Are Making Headlines
Curler Eve Muirhead has the 'spirit of sport' for 2023. And acknowledged by long jump champion Greg Rutherford!
Outsports names curler Bruce Mouat as its 'Male Athlete of the Year' for 2023...and Sha'Carri Richardson as its 'Female Athlete of the Year'.
World Athletics reflects on long-distance runner Ron Clarke'sfirst world record, career, and more. More from World Athletics as track & field stars Faith Kipyegon, Armand Duplantis, Noah Lyles, and Kelvin Kiptum answer some quickfire questions for Inside Track. Double Olympic javelin medalist Fatima Whitbread headlines the BBC's Sports Personality Awards along with soccer star Mary Earps. Who are newer names Team USA may look to in order to restore it to former 'glories' in women's soccer? What does biathlete Lovro Planko think of his first-ever top 10 finish in a World Cup race? Road cyclist Amanda Spratt recaps her 2023 season - and a successful Tour de France - with SBS Sport. Tadej Pogacar confirms an aggressive summer schedule for 2024 ahead of Paris 2024, with both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France road cycling events on deck. Congrats to Beijing 2008 sailing medalist Isabel Swan, new president of the Panam Sports Athletes Commission (while also training for a run at Paris 2024)! Will a big end to this calendar year be a boon to freestyle skier Reece Howden's 2023-24 season hopes? For former Olympic rower Pete Reed, advocating for wheelchair accessibility and awareness is personal. Meanwhile, World Rowing looks back at the career of champion rower Peter-Michael Kolbe. Who made it to FIBA's 'World Tour 2023 Team of the Season' in men's 3x3 basketball? Team USA's Jimmer Fredette and more... Meanwhile, MVP Henny Reistad of Norway headlines the 2023 Women's World Championship All-Star honors for team handball. What were 2023's 'top swimming races' according to World Aquatics? "Two wonderful human beings" in Sarah Robles and Mary Theisen Lappen exemplify the tight and emotional race of Olympic qualification in weightlifting. Sport climber Emma Hunt is looking forward to a landmark focus on speed at the next World Games. Viktor Axelsen's in-tournament turnaround in form confirms his 'monumental legacy' in badminton. Team Canada's golfers look to carry on 2023 momentum into next year's prime opportunities to represent the red-and-white. Who will win the IJF Judo Awards 2023? Online voting is open through January 31st... Henrik von Eckermann, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, and Oliver Townend headline 2023's final world rankings in equestrian's Olympic disciplines. "It's breathtaking." Thiraphat Sata and Sunita Chaiyapantho are excited at the prospect of debuting Team Thailand in luge at the Youth Winter Olympic Games. Champion figure skater Robin Cousins talks to The Guardian about his 'double life as a gay Olympian'. London 2012 champion boxer Oleksandr Usyk gets some key advice from fellow Olympic great Evander Holyfield in preparation of a highlight bout next year. (in Ukrainian) ICF looks at canoeist Saman Soltani's fraught path to the Refugee Team after leaving Iran. Team USA's Cutter Gauthier looks to make amends for a World U18 Championship disappointment at next years World Juniors in ice hockey. Iszmail Muszukajev, Bose Tosun, and Gabriel Rosillo are United World Wrestling's 2023 'breakout performers'. Olympic champions Mary Lou Retton (gymnastics) and Dave Baumgartner (wrestling) are both honored for their contributions to the U.S. Olympic movement.
Recent News and Headlines Featuring Olympic Sports Athletes
In Style: Naomi Osaka is "more sure of herself than ever before" upon the eve of her tennis return.
The ATP Tour announces its 2023 ATP Award winners, including stars Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Janik Sinner, and more.
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu may pass on the Australian Open next month, but certainly has Paris 2024 on her mind. How flexible are you compared to tennis champion Novak Djokovic? Short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun (Lim Hyo-jun) feels the heat on Chinese social media. SFGate offers some reason for San Francisco Giants baseball fans to be excited about Tokyo 2020 Olympian Jung-hoo Lee's arrival next season. Meanwhile, Beijing 2008 bronze medalist John Gall is named the new president of USA Baseball: "I am humbled and privileged". Who will be FIFA's 'best' male and female soccer players of 2023? We'll find out January 15... Laia Aleixandri and Lucia Garcia write for The Players' Tribune on *not* playing for Team Spain at the recent FIFA World Cup and how that came to be. "It is something magical, though, with the Olympics." Champion soccer player Julie Foudy talks Paris 2024 vs the next World Cup with CNN. Four-time Alpine skiing Olympian Aksel Lund Svindal talks of the Games' ability to inspire in the latest Olympic Review. Team Ukraine's recent mixed relay biathlon junior success has caused sights set on Milano Cortina 2026. (in Ukrainian) "Clunky"? Count The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw as not a fan of The Boys in the Boat film on Team USA's Berlin 1936 rowing champions. Champion New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko looked for some fellow champion's advice after closing out a disappointing 2023 season. Tokyo 2020 qualification disappointment has U.S. triathlete Taylor Knibb wary as 2024 approaches. "Madness" is how skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych describes the IOC's decision to allow Russians and Belarusians at Paris 2024. (in Ukrainian) Double world champion gymnast Rhys McClenaghan is 2023's RTE Sports Sportsperson of the Year. Weightlifter Maude Charron, skateboarder Fay de Fazio Ebert, gymnast Felix Dolci, and archer Eric Peters are just some of Team Canada's aspiring Olympians put through the media paces ahead of Paris 2024. Gymnast Lukas Dauser has a 'soaring level of confidence' after a big 2023 both on and off the mat. Could we see Team Kenya's 'Ice Lion's ice hockey squad at a Winter Olympics in the (near) future? World track cycling champion Wong Kam-po looks to... North Korea?...for Hong Kong sporting success. âCycling star Tom Pidcock aims to 'prove himself' at the 2024 Tour de France ahead of the Paris Olympics. Olympians dominate USA TODAY's looks at 'sports' biggest cheats': road cyclist Lance Armstrong, sprinters, Marion Jones and Ben Johnson, modern pentathlete Boris Onischenko, marathoner Frederick Lorz, and figure skater Tonya Harding. World Athletics: Long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon sure removed any doubts of her career resume with a world-record 2023 season. ââJamaican junior triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert makes Bowerman Award history. For sprint hurdler Kostas Douvalidis, watching Paraskevi Patoulidou's Barcelona 1992 triumph was a "stimulus" for his start in the sport. (in Greek) Not being on the BBC's shortlist of 'SportsPersonality of the Year' just provides more Paris 2024 motivation for world champion runner Josh Kerr. Winning the 2023 European Cross Country title has put 'Paris (2024) pressure and glory' onto Team France runner Yann Schrub. (But he and heptathlete Katerina Johnson-Thompson win 2023 accolades from the British Athletics Writers Association...) Mackenzie Little has big plans for 2024: both throwing the javelin at Paris 2024 and completing her first-year as a full doctor. Will Team USA basketball star Draymond Green's on-court dramas finally push his Golden State Warriors to a breaking point this season? Australian star swimmer Libby Trickett has thoughts on over-parenting and declining participation in Australian youth sports system. Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen's recent world record performance put his mother in a "state of shock". SwimSwam: What should Team USA women's swimming fans be watching for in the lead-up to Paris? A Men's Health look back: Team Italy veteran Ivan Zaytsev looks to "leave the volleyball world in better conditions" once he (finally) retires. (in Italian) A New Olympic Athlete Documentary Showcases the Olympic Spirit We Dare To Dream (2023) A Quick Film Review Do you need an inspiring movie this holiday season? The aptly-named We Dare to Dream has been thankfully made available on streaming service Peacock, offering a just-intimate-enough look at the premise of the International Olympic Committee's Refugee Team through select featured athletes. Responding to the increasing global refugee crisis, the IOC created the Refugee Team program to debut at Rio 2016 as a pathway to support elite athletes whose careers may have otherwise been thwarted by their stateless status. From a team of 10 at those Rio Games, the program expanded to 29 at Tokyo 2020, with an even larger pool of candidates aiming for Paris 2024. Both the IOC's commitment to the program, and the need for it, are apparent. We Dare to Dream takes a look at four of those Tokyo 2020 Olympians - weightlifter Cyrille Tchachet II, runner Anjelina Nadai Lohalith, canoeist Saied Fazloula, and taekwondo star Kimia Alizadeh. Each has their own unique, dramatic path to how they found themselves as a refugee, with their elite experience - Tchachet a Commonwealth Games competitor, Fazloula an Asian Games medalist, and Alizadeh a Rio 2016 medalist - underscoring the quality of athletes' abilities found on the team and the potential tragedy for their Olympic dreams to not have an outlet were it not for the Refugee Team pathway. Getting to know each backstory is the heart of We Dare to Dream, and powers one's attention as they navigate qualification, the Covid-19-enhanced circumstances of the Tokyo Games, and, ultimately, Olympic competition. For added perspective, we also get to briefly know another taekwondo athlete, Wael Fawaz Al-Farraj, whose dashed hopes for Tokyo 2020 selection exemplify the greater number of refugee athletes not on the final team - but who persevere. "Hope is constant, and dreams must continue", offers Fawaz Al-Farraj as attention eventually turns to Paris 2024. Directing the documentary is Waad Al-Kateab, whose own experiences as a refugee herself likely enhanced the sensitive and empathetic touch the film has with its athletes. As she knows well, "we all deserve to live, dream, and fight in a new way". We Dare to Dream provides a welcome look at Olympic athlete stories too-often neglected amidst the common nationalistic fervor that can accompany the Games - individuals who personify the drive to compete and succeed at their chosen sport, and even despite the luxury and privilege of national system support. Is that not Olympic spirit? Get To Know Olympic Sports Athletes Through Recent News
Runners Faith Kipyegon, Kelvin Kiptum & Tigist Assefa, sprinter Noah Lyles, triple jumper Yulimar Rojas, and pole vaulter Armand Duplantis are the 'Athletes of the Year' for World Athletics in 2023.
(p.s. Noah Lyles has some thoughts...)
Meanwhile, Olympics features Ethiopian-Dutch running star Sifan Hassan, whose 'rollercoaster life' has proven to her to not give up. Team Great Britain's Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis now gets to run UK Athletics. Lena Haecki-Gross answers 'five burning questions' for Biathlon World, and shares 'some special things'. Both Team Netherlands and Team Hungary face a daunting task to defend their respective water polo world championships next year. Olympians Oliver Zeidler, Francesco Fossi, Caryn Davies, Imogen Grant, and Emily Craig lead the 2023 World Rowing Awards. How did Athens 2004 rower Kathy Johnson transition from elite athlete to elite marketer? Figure skating: Who will win the 2024 ISU Skating Awards? Voting is open until January 7th... World Sailing looks at seven stars 'who went on to win big' after youth world championships success. Team France's Ramatou Ouedraogo has a 'big future ahead' in equestrian jumping. The International Weightlifting Federations doubles down on its commitment to refugee athletes. Marta Kropko may be a relative newcomer to elite triathlon, but Paris 2024 may really be on the horizon. South Koreans Seo Sung Jae and An Se Young headlined the badminton 2023 'Player of the Year' awards. "My dream has finally happened." Team Cuba London 2012 taekwondo medalist Robelis Despaigne is now officially a UFC fighter. Injuries finally take their toll on judoka Gemma Howell, retiring double Olympian after a landmark career. "I apologize for what I did". Belgian cyclist Max Van Gils accepts punishment for his road race transgression against rival Georgios Bouglas. Chef de Mission: Tokyo 2020 road cyclist Masomah Ali Zada gets a big Refugee Team role for Paris 2024. A look back: Women's rugby sevens veterans reflect on Dubai experiences in early days vs today. Snowboarder Julie Zogg aims to show she 'still has what it takes to stay at the top' after a multi-front successful prior season. Tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz score a promotional event deal with Netflix in Las Vegas. How did Team Japan score a recent landmark upset win over co-host Team Denmark at the Handball Women's World Championship? Who will be United World Wrestling's 'Wrestlers of the Year' for 2023? Kaysha Love is doing a pretty good job of transferring from push to drive in bobsled this season. "I can't say winning the worlds didn't change my life." Archer Marie Horackova reflects on a historic win. Team Switzerland's Alpine skiing stars Marco Odermatt and Laura Gut-Behrami headlined the winners at the 2023 Swiss Sports Awards.
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