by admin | May 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Top British gymnast Ondine Achampong is expected to miss this summer’s Paris Olympics after announcing Monday that she tore her ACL. The 20-year-old says she’s “devastated” about the knee injury, which typically takes a year to recover from after surgery. Read...
by admin | Nov 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Britain pulled off an unlikely 3-0 victory over Spain in the Billie Jean King Cup on Thursday to reach the semifinals of the top team event in women’s tennis for the first time in 41 years. Australia also reached the last four in Glasgow, but the story of the day was...
by admin | May 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Britain’s Laura Muir claimed victory in the 1500m at the Diamond League in Birmingham on Saturday with a time of 04:02.81. Australian Jessica Hull pushed Muir hard through the final stages of the race, breathing down her neck and looking like she might even overtake...
by admin | May 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Eilish McColgan set a British and European 10km record as she finished runner-up at the Great Manchester Run. Dundee’s McColgan, 31, took two seconds off Paula Radcliffe’s mark from 2003 with a time of 30 minutes 19 seconds, four seconds behind Hellen...
by admin | Aug 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Alice Dearing, the UK’s first Black Olympic swimmer, wants organizers for the next Games to approve swim caps that better accommodate Black hair. Dearing is one of four Black people who set up the Black Swim Association in the UK, which aims to make swimming more...
by admin | May 23, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the Seattle Storm, who made sure to represent social justice on their 2020 championship rings. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the British Baseball Federation who posted sexist tweets on their social...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
It is no exaggeration to say that Amanda Hocking has dedicated her life to baseball — especially women’s baseball — in Britain. Playing the game has been her dream since she was a child. That is what made the events of the last few weeks doubly painful to Hocking, and...
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