by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Russian dynamo Kamila Valieva, 15, made history this week by being the first female skater to land a quadruple jump in the Olympics. A few days later, her team made headlines again with reports that one of their athletes had failed a doping test, delaying the medal...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA free agency has become almost a season of its own for a few weeks every February since salary changes in the collective bargaining agreement in 2020 enhanced player movement. Most of the moves have been made now, with one major exception: Free agent guard...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Led by an insane jump from 2021 world silver medalist Chris Lillis, the U.S. on Thursday defeated overwhelming favorite China and claimed mixed team aerials gold in the event’s Olympic debut at the 2022 Winter Games. Lillis stomped a back double full-full-double...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Struggling U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin is cutting out interviews at the Beijing Winter Olympics. After disqualifications in the giant slalom and slalom generated controversial TV coverage that included a raw interview with NBC, the two-time gold medalist issued a...
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 | 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...
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