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18/08/2026

Meet Olivia Miles.
Second pick of the 2026 WNBA Draft.
Rookie for the Minnesota Lynx.
And already rewriting the book 🏀

26 games into her first pro season, here's what she's doing:

🏆 19,8 points per game, leads her whole team
🎯 5,8 assists per game, best young playmaker in the league
🔥 50,8% shooting, 1 out of every 2 shots goes in
⭐ July 18 vs Portland,14 pts, 10 asts, 4 reb, 4 blk. Only the 5th player in WNBA history to reach those numbers in one game. First rookie ever.
🥇 × 3 Rookie of the Month, first Lynx rookie to do it that many times

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧.

Every young fan watching her sees what's possible.
Every coach studying her sees the future of the game.

Save this. Share it with someone who needs to see what a rookie can do.

Who's your rookie of the year? Comment 👇

17/08/2026

The medals are what we remember.
The years behind them are what made them possible.

Birmingham showed us the performance. Behind every result sits years of preparation, adjustment and knowledge built one session at a time.

That knowledge deserves to be carried forward.

17/07/2026

Athlete Diary | Entry No. 1 📝

This is the first entry in Athlete Diary, a new SportsXLab series dedicated to the lived experiences of athletes.

Sport is often remembered through results, performances and medals. Athlete Diary is about the stories that rarely become part of that memory – the experiences that shape athletes both in and beyond competition.

Our goal is simple: to create a space where those experiences can be shared, understood and learned from – because they matter just as much as the results.

📖 Read the full essay through the link in our bio (or via the link in the comments).

🗣️If you’ve experienced something in sport that has been silenced, overlooked or simply never found a place to be told, we’d love to hear from you.

Athlete Diary is an open invitation to athletes who want to share their experiences and help build a deeper understanding of the realities behind sport.

Because the stories we don’t tell are often the ones we need to hear the most.

What story do you think deserves to be told?

20/06/2026

🇨🇻⚽ Sometimes the biggest moment of your life doesn’t come at 20.

Sometimes it comes at 40.

Vozinha spent an entire career chasing his World Cup moment. Now, he’s living it.

What do you think is the most inspiring story of this World Cup so far? 👇🌍

13/06/2026

🌎🏆 The 2026 World Cup is here!

Here are our Top 5 favourites to win it all:
5️⃣ Brazil 🇧🇷
4️⃣ Argentina 🇦🇷
3️⃣ Portugal 🇵🇹
2️⃣ France 🇫🇷
1️⃣ Spain 🇪🇸

Who’s lifting the trophy next month? And which team are we sleeping on? 👀🏆

29/05/2026

⚽🔥 With the Champions League final this week between PSG and Arsenal, here are some of the most unforgettable moments we’ve picked that define this competition.

•Manchester United’s historic injury-time comeback in the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich.

•Zinedine Zidane’s stunning volley in the 2002 Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen.

•Lionel Messi’s iconic performance against Real Madrid in the 2011 Champions League semi-final.

•Chelsea’s underdog victory in 2012 against Bayern Munich.

•Cristiano Ronaldo’s iconic bicycle kick against Juventus in 2018.

•José Mourinho’s famous sprint at Old Trafford in 2004 with FC Porto.

💭 What’s your favourite moment, and which one did we miss? Let us know in the comments

26/05/2026

🧠 Before the world believes in them… athletes learn to believe in themselves first.
Under pressure, the voice in your head becomes part of performance.
Self-talk can influence focus, confidence, emotional control and even decision-making in critical moments.
That’s why so many elite athletes repeat words, phrases or routines to themselves before competing — not by coincidence, but as a psychological tool to regulate pressure and stay present.
Because sometimes, the difference between hesitation and performance… starts internally.
🎯 And sometimes, one sentence changes everything.

22/05/2026

Saturday, May 23. Oslo.
Barcelona vs OL Lyonnes, the 4th UWCL final between these two in 7 years.

🔵 Lyon: The Dynasty with
8 UWCL titles and 5 in a row (2016-2020),11 final and the 1st club to 100 wins
🔴 Barcelona: The Renaissance
91,648 fans at Camp Nou (FIFA world record),3 titles in 4 years and Aitana Bonmatí back-to-back Ballon d'Or

Two clubs.

One rivalry.

A whole sport being pulled up with them.

So, who is your champion?

15/05/2026

🎙We don't have many players like Messi anymore. And we know why!

Goran Kovacevic, our Strategic Advisor at SportsXLab, and board member at Dinamo Zagreb, says something most coaches so true:
👉 "Talent has been overpowered by tactics."

His argument:
⚽ Modern football is built on safe patterns. Pass and move. Triangle, triangle, triangle. Dribbling is taught as risky — except in specific zones of the pitch.

⚽ Coaches reward what's predictable. The 1-vs-1 creator? They're trained out of the system before they hit U17.

⚽ Result: players who execute perfectly. But fewer players who break a game open with a single move.

So here's the real question for every academy, every coach, every parent:
➡️ Are we teaching kids to play the game, or to obey it?

💭 Drop your take in the comments.

11/05/2026

🩸 “You need to love pain.”

That’s how Thierry Henry describes the reality of high performance.

Most people love the result.
Very few learn to love the process behind it.

The exhaustion.
The repetition.
The uncomfortable moments nobody sees.

Because elite sport isn’t built when things feel easy.

It’s built in the moments where most people stop.

🎯 That’s the difference.

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