by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kaillie Humphries is now, officially, an American. And just like that, the U.S. medal hopes in bobsledding at the Beijing Olympics just got much stronger. The reigning world champion in both monobob and women’s bobsledding was sworn in as a citizen in San Diego...
by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Now the rest of the world needs to kick China off the sports circuit, too. The decision by the Women’s Tennis Association to forgo playing tournaments for the benefit of the Party-State is a prescient and powerful move that ought to trigger a broader moral blockade....
by admin | Nov 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Every now and then, China’s Communist insiders, in their frantic attempts to shield themselves against international criticism, inadvertently let slip what truly scares them. So it was recently in the tragic case of Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who disappeared...
by admin | Nov 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin races in the U.S. for the only time this season this weekend, in the spotlight at a World Cup stop in Killington, Vermont (broadcast schedule here). All slopes lead to Beijing in February. Shiffrin, a gold medalist in 2014 and 2018, has repeated in...
by admin | Nov 22, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Almost as abruptly as she had vanished, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai reappeared in public view over the weekend. Since Friday evening, a steady stream of photos and videos purporting to show a smiling Peng going about her life in Beijing have surfaced on Twitter...
by admin | Nov 21, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai took part in a video meeting with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach on Sunday, amid a global uproar following a Nov. 2 post on her social-media account accusing one of the Communist Party’s most senior retired leaders...
by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kaillie Humphries, the world’s most successful female bobsled driver, lives an American life with her American husband in an American townhouse on an American cul-de-sac about a mile from the first American Legoland. A Team USA flag flutters beside her front door. She...
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When softball helped kick off the Olympics on Wednesday in Tokyo, it was a triumphant return, if only a temporary one. After a 13-year absence, the sport is making its first appearance at the Summer Games since Beijing in 2008. Softball and baseball...
by admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin was struggling to get going when the rest of the world stopped. For her family, 2020 was the worst of years even before the coronavirus pandemic took hold in March. A month prior, Shiffrin’s beloved father, Jeff, had died after an accident at...
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