Josie Baff blazed a trail at Lausanne 2020 with Australia’s first-ever Winter Youth Olympic Games gold medal. Now, the snowboard cross racer is looking to make it onto the podium at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.

Poland’s Dawid Kubacki has long competed in the shadow of compatriot and three-time Olympic ski jumping champion Kamil Stoch but, propelled by a new focus on the power of his mind, the 30-year-old has emerged as the man to watch in the run-up to Beijing 2022.

While attempting to qualify for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021, many of the 51 Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holders are balancing intense training schedules with efforts to give back to their host communities and support fellow refugees in navigating the additional challenges caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we put the spotlight on four inspirational projects that are showing other refugees what’s possible.

After discussing the records, sharing the secrets of their success and setting out their plans for Tokyo 2020 in the first two parts of the series, the quartet currently bestriding the world of men’s pole vaulting took on the real issues of the day, including deciding who the poker king is and discovering which of them builds saunas in his spare time…

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we look at the inspirational work of refugee athlete Amir Al-Awad, who is equipping women in his community with skills and confidence that can help them deal with negative situations.

Olympic.org takes a look at what some former Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes are up to by diving into their social media posts.

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) has launched a new edition of the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme intended for established researchers engaged in Olympic-related research.