Alexa Leary is making waves in para swimming, coming back from a life-changing accident only two years ago to win gold and silver at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships and be on the cusp for Paris 2024 selection. The 2019 Under-18 vice world champion in...
As Switzerland’s number 1 badminton player, Jenjira Stadelmann has now begun her Paris Olympic campaign competing in Badminton World Cup events. To qualify, she needs to rank in the Top 50 – but she has to play as many tournaments as she can to improve her 10 best...
Polish speed climber Patrycja Chudziak wants to compete at the sport’s highest level, and that means getting to the Paris Olympic Games. The junior world champion and two-time junior European champion won’t rest until she knows she’s done everything she could and...
Rejected by a youth rugby team because he was deemed too slow, Edward Faulds took that as motivation not only to become the European U20 400-metre champion and double European champion, but also to break the European indoor 400-metre record that had stood for 34...
A trailblazer in Indian sport and the best on the subcontinent, Pragyna Mohan wants to become the first Indian triathlete to compete at an Olympic Games. She treads a difficult path as a sports person from a developing country, but hopes to inspire the most populous...
Melanie Chappaz is as self-made an athlete in downhill mountain biking as possible, funding her training and racing by holding down a job and racing around the world without a team. She wants to show that a woman can make it to the top while competing in a...
Even though she’s already raked in accolades as a five-time South Africa champion, four-time national champion and the only woman representing the African continent as an elite BMX rider, Miyanda Maseti knows she can be even better. Through Pho3nix’s support, she can...
Jehanara Nabi has broken the Pakistan 100m freestyle national record three times, and also owns the national record in freestyle over 400m and 800m and the 200m IM. This speedy youngster wants to be the first Pakistani female to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games and...
At the age of 12, Jamie Riddle began dreaming of becoming an Olympic champion in the sport of triathlon. The South Africa champion is one step closer after qualifying for Paris. He aims to show the younger generation back home that anything and everything is possible...
While he began formal training in canoe sprint in 2011, David Llorente loved slalom so much that he trained on a makeshift course he built himself. Many years later, he’s become one of Spain’s top slalom canoeists with European and world titles under his belt and...
Andre has one passion and one goal: BMX. Winning a South American championship medal last year marked him as one of the top riders on the continent who has what it takes to make his Olympic dreams come true if he only had the financial support – which Pho3nix has now...
Margielyn Didal’s meteoric rise has lifted the profile of skateboarding not just in her home country but for the entire region as she continues to blaze the way, going from skateboarding in the streets of Cebu at the age of 12 to winning gold medals at the 2018 Asian...