Stars of the Future

[Dragon 1,844]

Inspired by Jakob Ingebrigtsen I thought I'd start a thread where people discuss young sportspeople from their countries we could see doing well at the Olympics of 2024 onwards.

Maybe restricted to sportsmen/sportswomen under 20 years old.

Post your suggestions on who will be the stars of Paris onwards.

Edited August 13, 2018 by Dragon

[OlympicsFan 858]

vor 32 Minuten schrieb Dragon:

Inspired by Jakub Ingebritsen I thought I'd start a thread where people discuss young sportspeople from their countries we could see doing well at the Olympics of 2024 onwards.

Maybe restricted to sportsmen/sportswomen under 20 years old.

Post your suggestions on who will be the stars of Paris onwards.

So you can only name athletes from your own country? If so, then here is the list for Germany:

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[Dragon 1,844]

3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

So you can only name athletes from your own country? If so, then here is the list for Germany:

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It's not a strict rule -  but if they're known internationally it might not as interesting to the rest of the world.

[LDOG 2,418]

Argentina has a bunch of world champions in youth/junior age groups in different sports but none of them are on the level of the teenage superhumans you see coming from China, USA, Canada, Australia, Europe in general, etc. so I would be embarassed to write anything on this thread

[intoronto 5,642]

 

Taylor Ruck, swimming, can see her breaking the record of most medals by a Canadian at a single Olympics (currently 5 by speed skater Cindy Klassen).

 

[NearPup 3,051]

Does winter sports count?  Kelly Sildaru is 16. She could have won two gold medals in Pyeongchang if she didn’t get injured during the qualification period. If she is healthy in 2022 or 2026 she will be a serious gold medal threat in the women’s ski slopestyle, half-pipe and big air. 

Edited August 12, 2018 by NearPup

[Dragon 1,844]

 Zoe Backstedt - Cycling

Daughter of Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt and British national women's champion Megan Hughes

Won the national under 16 pursuit title by 11 seconds in the month she turned 14.

Also national U14 road race champion and 2nd in the U16 track sprint this year

 

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

Heather Arneton (27/07/02)  - Athletics 

 

 

Among other things, last year, aged 14, she jumped 6.57m (that would have been a top 8 finish in Berlin for exemple). She is kinda allready famous among french sport fans, might be a challange to deal with the allready growing expectation.

[heywoodu 15,144]

9 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Heather Arneton (27/07/02)  - Athletics 

 

 

Among other things, last year, aged 14, she jumped 6.57m (that would have been a top 8 finish in Berlin for exemple). She is kinda allready famous among french sport fans, might be a challange to deal with the allready growing expectation.

I remember her, for a Dutch website I already wrote something about that 6.57m in January last year  

http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/757154/1/1/50/14-jarige-verspringster-maakt-indruk-met-supersprong.html

[hckošice 14,834]

Nothing for Slovakia...

 

The last biggest super talent was ofc Peter Sagan.

 

Now apart a couple of Ice hockey players we have probably worth to be mentioned one girl (I already mentioned her here and there in the forum) Jessica Triebeľová in Boxing, thanks god, her parents somehow found an agreement with our federation and other our structures in order of better funding her career and thus she definitely refused the Azerbaijani offer and will stay and compete for Slovakia.

 

Jessica Triebeľová

3 times Junior European Champion in a row. in fact she is 3 years still undefeated.

Apparently some experts and peoples involved in Boxing are saying about her like a immense talent and are really enthusiastic especially about her technique.

 

so let see in the future, maybe we will have some interesting results in this sport. She is already dreaming about Tokyo