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Stewart and Ross will be part of the first group of N. Also part of that group is Akeem Sirleaf and Daniel Stokes, who will be representing Liberia and Mexico, respectively. Since then, he's become one of the top players in the NBA, averaging more than 23 points-per-game in the past two seasons while earning All-Star nods. This will be Tatum's first Olympics.

She joined Duke's staff as a volunteer assistant coach in and has since trained in Cary. Wilkes has been lifting weights for more than 20 years, but this will be his first Olympics. A native of Chesapeake, Virginia, Wilkes moved to Matthews to train. He is a three-time Pan American champion -- winning in , and -- and garnered silver medals three other times.

He will be 34 years-old when the games start. Windle was addopted from Cambodia when he was 18 months old and raised by his adoptive father, Jerry Windle, in Morrisville.

Windle began training in diving at Duke several years ago. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Zaferes is a professional triathlete. Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. All Streams. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email. This post will be updated throughout July and August. Charles Krupa. Mary DeCicco. Jeff Roberson. Lee Jin-man. Ashley Landis. Courtesy of N. State University. Charlie Neibergall. Mitchell Northam.

Charlie Riedel. David Zalubowski. Elaine Thompson. Morry Gash. Chris Carlson. Team USA. The sport has also been a leader in equal pay for women and men, an elusive goal for so many Olympic athletes. In September , the WSL announced it would offer the same prize money to women and men on tour. Gwen Berry refuses to shut up and throw the hammer. Olympic and Paralympic Committee put her on a month probation.

The anthem had been played only once a night, and on that night it was while Berry was on the podium for placing third in the hammer throw. With its daring jumps and superhero-like moves, climbing is poised to be a breakout hit of these Games—and Garnbret an emerging star.

Tanaka will be among the top stars in Tokyo since Major League Baseball would not let active players compete. The last time baseball was in the Olympics, in , Tanaka also represented Japan; that team lost to the U.

On day five of the swimming competition in Tokyo, the year-old will swim both the m and 1,m freestyle finals in the same two-and-a-half-hour session. Will it faze her? Probably not.

Ledecky—who missed her graduation from Stanford University because she was competing at the Olympic trials in June, holds three world records and has won five Olympic golds since her debut in London in —has a habit of putting herself half a body length or more ahead of her nearest rivals.

Ross won a silver medal at the London Olympics, playing with Jennifer Kessy, and in Rio she won bronze with Kerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time gold medalist.

Walsh Jennings failed to qualify for her sixth Olympics. The pair spent the pandemic training together and won their first tournament of , in Doha, Qatar. During the pandemic, many Olympians struggled to find places to practice their crafts. But rehab has gone well, and Florence should be set to surf in Japan, where the waves tend to be less powerful than those in his home state. A veteran racer at 32, Katinka Hosszu holds the world records in the m and m individual medley events, which require swimmers to master all four strokes—butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle—and dominated her competition in those events at the world championships.

Tokyo will be her fifth Olympics—and her first since splitting with two different coaches, one of whom is her ex-husband.

This time, Hosszu decided to train herself. De Grasse has stayed busy since Rio, graduating from the University of Southern California and having two children with his partner Nia Ali, the world champion American hurdler. Badminton is the only sport in which Indonesia has won an Olympic gold, and the game is as popular there as soccer or basketball is in other parts of the world. In March, the team had to pull out of the All England Open after a passenger on their flight tested positive for the virus.

Milak battled the aftereffects for months. But he recovered to prove at the European championships in May that he has a chance to win the first Olympic gold in the m butterfly of the post-Phelps era. Milak could also qualify for the m butterfly, where he could challenge current world-record holder Caeleb Dressel.

Lisa Carrington is so dominant in sprint kayaking that she draws comparisons to Simone Biles. At the world championships, Carrington blew away the competition in her individual races, and the last time she contested all four events, in , she only narrowly lost her team races. Laurel Hubbard is set to make history in Tokyo. Hubbard meets all the criteria the IOC has put in place for trans athletes since , including testosterone limits for trans women.

Having dominated high jumping for years—winning gold at the , and world championships—Maria Lasitskene, 28, is vying for her first Olympic gold in Tokyo.

As punishment, Russian athletes are barred from competing under their flag and anthem until Had the Olympics happened in as planned, Helen Glover would not have been there. Her twins were born in January of that year, and the idea of adding a third gold medal to the ones she won in London and Rio seemed impossible. But during lockdown, Glover began working out on a rowing machine and watched her numbers improve, even as she parented three children under the age of 3.

Now Glover, 35, will be the first British rower to compete at the Games after having children. And a third gold is well within reach. Popular on social media, where he chronicles his training and daily exploits, in Tokyo the year-old is not just eyeing the individual all-around title, but hoping that he and his neutral Russian Olympic Committee teammates will be able to clinch the first team gold for Russian athletes since Having only taken up shooting in , he has accumulated an impressive haul of medals: 14 gold and six silver in international competitions.

After the year-old from Florida failed to win his heat or the semifinals, some wondered about his form—and whether the hype that he could be the next Usain Bolt was overblown. But in the final, he roared to the head of the pack to make his first Olympic team and establish himself as the favorite to win gold in the m—something no U. Lyles has been open about his struggles with mental health and the pressures of competition.

That feat in Vienna might not count as an official world record, as Kipchoge did not run in race conditions. The event was engineered for maximum speed: the course was flat, and a team of pacesetters surrounded Kipchoge to reduce drag. But Kipchoge does hold the world record: he ran it in 2 hr. In April, he won his final marathon—in a Netherlands airport—before the Olympics, where Kipchoge will defend the gold he won in Rio.

The smart money is on him to do it. Shaunae Miller-Uibo is the defending Olympic champion in the m, winning gold in Rio in controversial fashion by diving across the finish line to edge out Allyson Felix. Jessica Parratto is from Dover, New Hampshire. She graduated from Indiana University in Like Hixon, she competed in the Rio Games, placing 10th in the individual meter, and 7th in the synchronized meter.

She will compete in the meter event in Tokyo. He will be competing in the individual and team events, as he did in the Rio Games. Andrew Mackiewicz is a first-time Olympian from Westwood, Massachusetts. He graduated in from Pennsylvania State University, where he studied marketing. He'll be competing in individual and team events. Lindi Schroeder is from Andover, Massachusetts.

The year-old will be the first Massachusetts resident to compete in synchronized swimming in over a decade. Rashida Ellis is from Lynn, Massachusetts. She'll compete in the lightweight class. He was born and raised in the Boston area, and then graduated from Yale University in This will be McNay's fourth Olympics.

He will compete in the men's two-person dinghy event. Kieran Smith is a year-old Olympian from Ridgefield, Connecticut. He currently attends the University of Florida. We recognize the list may not be exhaustive of all New England connections and we encourage you to let us know if there's another local, or a correction, you'd like us to look into.

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Now, just a few months away from winning at the Texas high school level, Hernandez will plunge into Olympics competition. From Southlake, Hernandez received a sendoff from her hometown community in the Southlake town square on July She's set to continue her diving career at the storied University of Texas at Austin program in the fall and could begin college with an Olympic medal in hand.

You can read more about Hernandez on the Team USA website here and watch her compete in the 3-meter springboard competition live at 2 a.

Born Sept. In , when he couldn't defend his title due to a postseason ban for SMU, DeChambeau decided to go pro. His analytical approach to the game has earned him the nickname "The Scientist. DeChambeau, who studied physics at SMU, is known for his aggressive and less traditional approach to golf, which he'll bring to the Tokyo Olympics in his first Olympic Games.

You can read more about DeChambeau on the Olympics website here and watch him tee off starting Aug. Emma Malabuyo, from Flower Mound, is an year-old gymnast who was named an alternate for the U. She's been doing gymnastics since she was 5, and her dreams were realized in St.

Louis when she earned a spot as an alternate. The year-old was originally born in California before moving to Flower Mound in For the last eight years, she's been training at Texas Dreams Gymnastics in Coppell under the guidance of coach and former Olympian Kim Zmeskal.

Malabuyo began competing for the U. National team in and after the Olympics, she'll head to UCLA to continue her impressive gymnastics career. You can read more about Malabuyo on USA Gymnastics' website here and follow along with Malabuyo and her teammates with the gymnastics schedule here. He said he was at crossroads, deciding whether to pursue a career outside of karate or pursue his passion full-time.

But the move to Texas paid off when the year-old qualified for the Games in the overkg weight class, where he'll compete in Kumite, sparring against other karate athletes.

Irr told NBC 5's Allie Spillyards these Olympics are the "opportunity of a lifetime," with karate making its Olympic debut for the first and perhaps only time, with the sport out of the Olympic Games. Irr will turn 33 right before the Tokyo Olympics.

He currently ranks ninth in the world in the overkg weight class, and won gold at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Karate athlete Tom Scott almost didn't qualify for his first Olympics at Tokyo after he narrowly missed out in the selection process. But USA Karate said Scott was the next man up if a spot became available, and the World Karate Federation awarded him a spot July 9 after an Iranian karate athlete could not compete due to a doping ban.

Scott was born and raised in Richardson and now lives in the town. The year-old grew up practicing karate at the Academy of Classical Karate in Plano, where he now teaches. The 6-foot, pound karate athlete went to Jesuit College Prep for high school and then Texas Christian University for college, where he met his wife while chasing for a goat, Scott said in an interview with NBC Olympics.

He credits his coach at the Academy of Classical Karate, Brody Burns, for allowing him to pursue his professional karate career while also teaching and handling marketing for the academy.