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Simone Biles Says She Is ‘Speechless’ and ‘Honored’ at Having 5th Gymnastics Skill Named After Her

by admin | Oct 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Simone Biles’s legendary status keeps on soaring! Biles, 26, shared her emotional reaction to having a fifth gymnastics skill named after her in an Instagram post on Friday, after becoming the most decorated gymnast of all time at the World Gymnastics Championships...

A’ja Wilson, Aces’ Dominance Celebrated by Fans for Rout Of Breanna Stewart, Liberty

by admin | Oct 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW

The Las Vegas Aces are one win away from repeating as WNBA champion following a dominant performance against the New York Liberty in Game 2 of the 2023 WNBA Finals. The Aces cruised to a 104-76 win to take a commanding 2-0 series lead. Las Vegas scored a Finals-record...

U.S. women disqualified from 4x400m relay after baton fail

by admin | Aug 28, 2023 | Representation, SEW

The United States women’s 4×400 metres relay team, who have won seven of the last eight World Championships and the last seven Olympic golds, were disqualified from Saturday’s semi-finals after a botched baton changeover. The U.S. were trailing...

Faith Kipyegon wins third world 1500m title; American stuns for discus gold

by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Laulauga Tausaga-Collins dedicated her out-of-nowhere discus world title — the first for an American woman — to her mom, who forced her into sports in high school. “I just wanted to stay home and be a bookworm,” Tausaga-Collins said. Mom Aveaomalo felt different. Read...

Simone Biles’ next comeback opportunity: break a 90-year-old gymnastics record

by admin | Aug 22, 2023 | Representation, SEW

A footnote to Simone Biles’ 2021 gymnastics season was that she tied the record of seven U.S. all-around titles. Two years later, she’s back and favored to break that record she shares with Alfred Jochim, who won seven men’s titles from 1925-30 and in 1933 in the AAU...

Swiss skier Jasmine Flury wins downhill gold as favorites falter

by admin | Feb 13, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Swiss skier Jasmine Flury won gold in the women’s downhill at the world championships Saturday on a rough day for the pre-race favorites. Flury edged Austrian skier Nina Ortlieb by 0.04 seconds for her first career medal at major championships. Read...

Germany goes 1-2 at bobsled worlds; Kaillie Humphries breaks medals record

by admin | Feb 6, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Kim Kalicki and Lisa Buckwitz gave Germany a one-two in the world bobsled championships two-woman event, while American Kaillie Humphries earned bronze to break the career medals record. Kalicki, who was fourth at last year’s Olympics and leads this season’s World Cup...

Germany opens bobsled worlds with double gold; Kaillie Humphries gets silver

by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Germans Laura Nolte and Johannes Lochner dethroned the reigning Olympic and world champions to open the world bobsled championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, this weekend. Nolte, the Olympic two-woman champion driver, won the four-run monobob by four tenths of a...

Gaon Choi breaks Chloe Kim record, youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe champion

by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW

South Korean Gaon Choi broke Chloe Kim‘s record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe champion, winning at age 14 on Saturday in Aspen, Colorado. Choi, the world junior champion, landed three different 900s in her third of four runs to overtake two-time U.S....

Germany sweeps women’s luge medals at world championships

by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Olympic silver medalist Anna Berreiter led a German sweep of the women’s medals at the world luge championships at home in Oberhof on Saturday. Berreiter prevailed by 58 thousandths of a second over Julia Taubitz, who led the German medals sweep at the last worlds in...
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