by admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Laurie Hernandez’s left knee was so heavily taped she worried she wouldn’t be able to get out of her warm-ups in time, and she couldn’t take more than a step or two without her knee giving out and hyperextending. Maybe, coach Jenny Zhang suggested, she should scratch....
by admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Barbora Krejcikova had nothing but a dream of becoming a better tennis player when she and her parents walked up to Jana Novotna’s house in her hometown of Omice in the Czech Republic in...
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 | 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 | Representation, SEW
We call them clutch. Some say they have ice in their veins. They’re the players who step up big on the biggest of stages. And despite this 2021 WNBA seasonbarely being a month old, we’ve already seen an unusual amount of game-winning shots. Through...
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