by admin | Mar 1, 2022 | Guest Blogs, SEW
It may come as no surprise, but the female athletes competing for Team USA dominated at the Beijing Winter Olympics with 17 out of 25 medals earned by women. Out of that total, 13 medals came from individual women’s events, and the remaining four were from...
by admin | Feb 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Much like the glitter she wears on her cheeks, Team USA‘s Jessie Diggins’ first and second career Olympic medals came with sparkling fashion marked by furious sprints. Her third Olympic medal, however, required a long slog. But the result is just as shiny. Read...
by admin | Feb 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin’s 2022 Olympic Games came to an anticlimactic end on Sunday in the bronze-medal race of the wind-delayed mixed team parallel skiing event. Shiffrin had been hoping to salvage her unexpected time in Beijing with one final shot at a medal as part...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Suzanne Schulting who became the first woman to win 4 short track medals in a single Olympics. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the Russian figure skating coaches and how they treated their athletes...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
American Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor won her fifth Olympic medal Saturday, making her not only the most decorated woman to ever compete in the Olympic bobsled but also the most decorated Black athlete in the history of the Winter Games. After earning a bronze medal...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had just come up short in her bid for the gold medal in the Olympic women’s snowboard big air contest, but she didn’t even release her boots from her board before diving into a bear hug with winner Anna Gasser of Austria, who was...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics’ youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S.-born freeskier Eileen Gu of China said she’s tired and wants to sleep for days and days yet honored to walk away with the accolades after earning freeski halfpipe gold for her third medal at the 2022 Winter Games. Read More
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico called on the International Olympic Committee to take action after Russian figure skating coaches “failed to protect” Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old star at the center of a doping scandal that dominated the second half of the Beijing...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles jumped to the defense of American skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Thursday after Shiffrin shared on Instagram some of the abusive comments she’s received following her disappointing performances at the Beijing Games, where she...
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