by admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kazakhstan’s Norah Jeruto could only watch the Tokyo Olympic 3000m steeplechase. Able to run for her new country this year, she left no doubt who is the world’s top steepler on Wednesday night. Jeruto won the world championships gold medal in Eugene, Oregon, in 8...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Record attendance at the 2022 UEFA Women’s Euro in England has organisers licking their lips in anticipation for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Wednesday marks one year until the 2023 tournament kicks off, as interest in...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is on her 12-city tour of the league, and landed in Los Angeles Tuesday to take in Sparks vs. Fever. Engelbert took some time to speak with the media, which included members of Swish Appeal, about the state of the WNBA and how it...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lee Kiefer, who in Tokyo became the second U.S. woman to win an Olympic fencing gold medal, claimed foil bronze at the world championships in Cairo on Tuesday. Kiefer, 28 and ranked No. 1 in the world, won her first four bouts before falling to Italian veteran Arianna...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Alex Morgan scored a penalty late in the second half to guide the United States to a 1-0 victory over Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday night. The game was a rematch of last summer’s Olympic semifinal game, which Canada...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had to fix her wig halfway through her women’s 200m heat as she suffered a surprise defeat to Niger’s Aminatou Seyni. The incident occurred as the Jamaican flew around the bend and felt her electric turquoise wig slipping –...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In 2015, Jenny Simpson, arguably the greatest U.S. female miler in history, slapped a label on a budding runner from Kenya named Faith Kipyegon. “I call her the sniper,” Simpson said then, three months after the then-21-year-old Kipyegon won her first global 1500m...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
As American women seethe over the loss of their rights and full standing in society, the WNBA and the NWSL have an opportunity to make a strong statement on their behalf. Both leagues plan to add two expansion teams over the next three years, and at least a dozen...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Daria Kasatkina, Russia’s highest-ranked female tennis player, has come out as gay in a video interview posted online on Monday. The current world No 12 told Russian blogger Vitya Kravchenko that she is in a relationship with a woman and found “living in the closet”...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Belgium knocked Italy out of the 2022 Women’s Euro and reached the knockout stages of a major tournament for the first time thanks to a 1-0 win over the Azzurri on Monday. Tine De Caigny struck the decisive goal four minutes after half-time, collecting the ball...
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