by admin | Jun 13, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who earned the title of fastest woman alive this week. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to USA Water Polo who had to pay settle a sex abuse lawsuit.
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
USA Gymnastics announced Friday that Dianne Durham will be inducted into the 2021 Hall of Fame, 38 years after she became the first Black gymnast to win the senior national championship and four months after her death at age 52. Durham will be inducted alongside the...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In Australia, female athletes have been asked absurdly inappropriate questions by journalists, and the media has sometimes taken a patronizing and belittling attitude to reporting on women in sport. Tennis player Andy Murray made a pointed commentsome...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Suni Lee earned her second consecutive silver medal in the all-around competition and secured second place in the U.S. Gymnastics Championships over the weekend. Lee takes pride in her placement and says that it “felt really good to be in the top two,”...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The most important thing to be reminded of, as Coco Gauff improbably lost the first set of her French Open quarterfinal, then lost her composure, then lost all chance is that at just 17 years old, she has already done enough to view what happened Wednesday as a...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW, Uncategorized
More than a dozen Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would prohibit federal funds toward hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup unless the U.S. Soccer Federation equalizes pay between the U.S. men’s and women’s national teams. The U.S., Canada...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is now the fastest woman alive. The two-time Olympic champion ran the 100 meters in 10.63 seconds at a national trials warmup event in Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday. Only one woman, American sprinter Florence Griffith...
by admin | Jun 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Trainer Luis Carvajal has a simple explanation for giving so many unproven – and often inexperienced – jockeys a chance with his horses. “When you do good things for people it eventually comes back to you,” he said. Maria Scaldaferri, a native of Argentina who has yet...
by admin | Jun 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
From a distance approximating one of her prodigious drives, Michelle Wie West caught a glimpse of her infant daughter in the arms of her mother, who was standing on a hotel balcony. It was Wie West’s first competitive tournament as a working mom, and at the sight of...
by admin | Jun 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
An Australian swimmer has withdrawn from upcoming Olympic trials, citing “misogynistic perverts” in the sport. Madeline Groves, 26, said in 2020 she had complained “a few years ago” about an unnamed person in the sport who had made her feel uncomfortable. Announcing...
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