by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva made history at the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Monday as she became the first woman to land a quad at the Games. The 15-year-old Valieva landed two quads in the team event as the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) secured...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, skeleton sliders Kim Meylemans, of Belgium, and Nicole Silveira, of Brazil, will compete in the women’s event on Thursday, February 10. (A full skeleton schedule for the 2022 Winter Olympics can be found here.) Usually,...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The women’s giant slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics was filled with plenty of disappointment. A missed gate ended Mikaela Shiffrin‘s Olympic title defense. Nina O’Brien had a scary crash across the finish line after a promising first run. All told, 31 of 82 skiers...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maame Biney wants to change the sport of short track speedskating for all the competitors who come after her—on and off the ice. Biney, 22, became the first Black woman to qualify for a U.S. Olympic short track speedskating team ahead of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics,...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On Friday, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum earned the first perfect 10.0 scores of their collegiate careers in the UCLA-Utah meet. On Saturday afternoon, their Olympic teammate Sunisa Lee followed their lead with a perfect score of her own in Auburn’s meet...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 2021 season was a year to forget for theLos Angeles Sparks. Can additions such as Liz Cambage, Chennedy Carter, Jordin Canada and Katie Lou Samuelsonmake 2022 a much different experience? Or will the Sparks find themselves in the midst of a chemistry experiment...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
At the 2022 Winter Olympics, 45 percent of athletes are women, a Winter Games record. That’s up from 41 percent four years ago in PyeongChang – and 4.3 percent at the inaugural Olympic Winter Games in 1924. Beijing will feature the debut of seven new events – one...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The stars were out at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, including snowboarders Julia Marino, Jamie Anderson and Red Gerard and figure skaters Vincent Zhou and Karen Chen. Marino, taking silver in women’s snowboarding slopestyle, grabbed the first medal of...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A day after her Olympic teammates Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum earned their first career 10.0 scores, Auburn’s Suni Lee said, “Hold my grips” and had a perfect routine of her own for the first time. During Auburn’s meet on Saturday against...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Wednesday was National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and with the 50th anniversary of Title IX coming up later this year, it was a momentous one. State of play: Though the investment gap between men’s and women’s sports remains wide, the past few weeks...
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