by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
While the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will provide many competitors with the biggest test of their athletic careers, just watching the Olympics – with a 13-hour time difference between China and U.S. eastern time – presents a challenge of its own for viewers asking,...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor wrote that the best way she can send a message about the Olympic host nation, amid calls for various forms of boycotts, is to compete at the Beijing Games. “I understand the concerns about human rights and free expression in China,”...
by admin | Jan 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympics were only five weeks away, and the most prominent Team USA athlete was sequestered in a hotel room in Austria, reduced to doing pull-ups on her bed frame and lunges with a single 15-kilogram plate and knocking on the wall to say hi to her mother in the...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When you are up in the air, it almost feels like you’re flying,” says Kirsty Muir, the youngest member of Britain’s Winter Olympic team, as she describes the sensation when her body is twirling like a spinning top high above ground. “When you are doing an easier...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Carly Margulies takes her first Olympic ski halfpipe qualifying run on Feb. 17, it will be her first competitive action of any kind since December 2019. Margulies, who underwent seven knee surgeries since 2013, including three since her last contest, earned the...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. aerial skier Ashley Caldwell may be heading to her fourth Winter Olympics next week, but nothing about hucking herself off an icy 15-foot kicker at more than 40 miles per hour and nailing dare-devil tricks at 60 feet in the air and landing on her feet is old hat....
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On Feb. 15, a woman will almost certainly land a quadruple jump in Olympic figure skating competition for the first time. But she will not be the first woman to attempt a quad at the Olympics. That honor belongs to Surya Bonaly. The star French skater of the 1990s is...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. will have a female ski jumper at the Olympics after all. Anna Hoffmann, originally the sixth alternate, got into the Olympic field after two nations returned a quota spot and four of the top five alternate nations declined spots, according to the U.S. Olympic...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Breezy Johnson, the United States’ top women’s downhill skier, will not compete in the Beijing Olympics next month after suffering a knee injury in a crash in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, she said. Johnson immediately felt a “massive crack”...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After breaking her neck and back in a frightening crash in her debut at the Pyeongchang Olympics, 29-year-old luger Emily Sweeney returns to the Games. The big picture: Sweeney said getting back on the sled “took everything” she had, but 11 months after...
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