by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just four days before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, Katie Lou Samuelson announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19. Samuelson, a rising star for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, was slated to compete in the debut of women’s 3×3 basketball for Team...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approached, fans around the world struggled to balance their excitement with a general uneasiness surrounding the Games. These included high-profile firings, volunteers quitting, abnormally high temperatures, low vaccination rates as well as...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Simone Biles withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics in July citing mental health as her reason, many people were shocked. But they really shouldn’t have been — Biles was dealing with the overwhelming pressure of both Olympic competition and the public eye as a sexual...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Skateboarding was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at Tokyo 2020. Teenagers dominated the podiums in both the women’s street and park events. The BBC’s Mariko Oi sat down with Japan’s youngest gold medallist – Momiji Nishiya...
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA’s key number this season is 25, as the league celebrates its silver anniversary season. The WNBA launched in June 1997 with eight teams, expanded to as many as 16 at one point, and currently has 12. As the league prepares to resume the 2021 season,...
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix, the most decorated American track and field athlete, relished her latest Olympic achievements with a homecoming fit for a GOAT. Upon arrival home in Los Angeles, Felix, 35, was picked up at the airport by her husband Kenneth Ferguson and later greeted...
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Kristen Hamilton has won three National Women’s Soccer League championships, tied the record for goals scored in a game and, in 2019, played for the U.S. women’s national team. She’s not a household name, but she is one of the best women’s soccer players in the world....
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Coco Gauff was 9 or 10, as she recalls, when her mother gave her a journal, explaining that it was important she have a private place to write down her feelings or anything she wanted. Gauff has kept a journal ever since, scribbling a few sentences when she has the...
by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Superstar gymnast Simone Biles announced in April that she was cutting ties with Nike to sign a partnership with Athleta, saying she valued the women’s activewear brand for seeing her as a person, not just an athlete. Two years earlier, Athleta wooed sprinting...
by admin | Aug 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Women’s sports associations across Europe have called for the resignation of the presidents of both the international and European handball federations, accusing them of “blatant sexism” for rules that require female players to wear bikini bottoms. The Norwegian...
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