The roster of American athletes set to compete at this summer s Olympic Games isn t final, but at least a handful of Hoosiers already have made the cu .
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Utah Mountain Biker Haley Batten Qualifies for Tokyo Olympics
Photo courtesy USA Cycling - Park City native Haley Batten has punched her ticket to the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
Utah Mountain Biker Haley Batten Qualifies for Tokyo Olympics
Haley Batten has punched her ticket to the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. The budding mountain bike superstar and Park City native met USA Cycling’s automatic qualifying criteria after finishing in second place at the Nové Mesto XCO World Cup race on Sunday, May 16. This followed Batten’s win in the short-track cross-country mountain bike race two days earlier and a third-place finish in the World Cup XCO race at the season’s first race in Albstadt, Germany.
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 9, 2021
The Olympic Games for the first time could feature transgender athletes on women’s teams, sending the debate about competitive fairness versus gender identity in female athletics to the world’s biggest sports stage.
At least three transwomen are viewed as strong contenders for slots on their nations’ women’s Olympic teams, and one, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, reportedly clinched a place last week under the International Weightlifting Federation’s revised pandemic system.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee, with a May 31 deadline, has not officially announced its team, but reports that Ms. Hubbard, 43, has effectively qualified in the super heavyweight division prompted one former competitor to speak out.