Pulling the thread on overlooked women’s sports stories and stitching together their place in the conversation

Belarus Sprinter Becomes an Unlikely Dissident

She sparked the biggest political crisis of the Tokyo Olympics, but Kristina Timanovskaya didn’t set out to be a symbol of the repression in her native Belarus. She just wanted to run. Ms. Timanovskaya, a 24-year-old sprinter whose specialty is the 200 meters, became...