by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim has continued her dominance on the halfpipe. The champion claimed her second gold medal on Thursday, becoming the first woman to ever win multiple gold medals in the women’s event since it became an Olympic sport in 1998. Kim last won gold during the 2018...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
When Lynx forward Aerial Powers comes home from practice, she puts on her headset, logs on and starts to stream. The WNBA star has been an avid gamer since childhood, when her family bonded over Call of Duty and GoldenEye 007. But as she’s grown older and started to...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
“People would say to me, ‘You really want to leave the N.F.L.?’ ‘Yes,’ I would answer, ‘with running shoes on.’” RAMONA WASHINGTON, a former production coordinator at NFL Network who is Black. She said she quit in disgust in 2018 after her report of bias among...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
Last fall, when players in the National Women’s Soccer League publicly accused prominent coach Rory Dames of verbal and emotional abuse, Megan Cnota was immediately transported to two decades before, when she was a teenager playing for Dames in suburban Chicago. Yes,...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis became the first American gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, jumping to an early lead and holding on to win the women’s snowboardcross on Wednesday. Sixteen years after falling in the homestretch of the inaugural Olympic...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 15-year-old figure-skating sensation whose unprecedented quad jumps powered Russia to the team figure skating gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics was reported today to have failed a drug test before competition. The report from the Inside the Games news website...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the four years since Ester Ledecka made Olympic history with gold medals in both skiing and snowboarding, she conceded she’s thought about slowing down a little. Maybe even — dare she say — neglect her snowboard a bit to focus more on the skiing...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A 12-year-old Black swimmer was nearly disqualified from a meet in Superior, Wisconsin, for wearing a Black Lives Matter swimsuit. “An independent volunteer official inappropriately barred a student athlete from taking part in the meet, due to their ‘Black...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Skier Darya Dolidovich has fled Belarus after being barred from competing in the Winter Olympics over accusations regarding her involvement with the country’s opposition movement. The 17-year-old cross-country skier’s International Ski Federation (FIS)...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Women’s ski jumping grabbed the headlines Tuesday at the Winter Olympics, although not for reasons the athletes might have liked after five women were disqualified from the new mixed team event. Among them were Germany’s Katharina Althaus, a two-time Olympian who...
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