by admin | Sep 5, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Sarah Storey, who won her 17th gold medal at the Paralympics at the age of 43. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to USA Gymnastics, who again must address the sexual abuse in its organization and pay...
by admin | Sep 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles had a special gift for her Olympic teammate Sunisa “Suni” Lee’s dad after witnessing the father-daughter duo’s sweet relationship. On Wednesday, Today reporter Natalie Morales visited Suni’s father John Lee to present him...
by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A USA Gymnastics reorganization plan includes up to $425 million for survivors who say they were sexually abused by former team doctor and convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. The dollar amount is contained in court documents filed with an Indiana bankruptcy court...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles is ready to cheer on Sunisa Lee as her former Olympics gymnastics teammate gets ready to compete in a completely different apparatus: Dancing with the Stars. Last week, Lee was confirmed as a contestant on the upcoming 30th season of the ABC dance...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A judge has ordered the U.S. government to seize money from the prison trust account of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who owes approximately $58,000 to the victims of his crimes according to a report by the Associated Press. Nassar, whose crimes included...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcome four-time Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes to discuss everything from mental health in gymnastics to the time Prince made her hot cocoa before a music video shoot (8:00). Plus, OnlyFans changes its policies (35:33), Jeopardy!’s...
by admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles commented on a video of a fellow gymnast falling headfirst on the mat to demonstrate how bad her disorienting case of the twisties got at the Tokyo Olympics. “This happened more times than I would’ve wanted in practice at the games,” Biles tweeted...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approached, fans around the world struggled to balance their excitement with a general uneasiness surrounding the Games. These included high-profile firings, volunteers quitting, abnormally high temperatures, low vaccination rates as well as...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Simone Biles withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics in July citing mental health as her reason, many people were shocked. But they really shouldn’t have been — Biles was dealing with the overwhelming pressure of both Olympic competition and the public eye as a sexual...
by admin | Aug 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The uneven bars began, like all of women’s gymnastics, as a balance event, meant to showcase some flexibility and a lot of ladylike panache. In the subsequent century, however, it grew closer to its distant male cousin, the high bar, evolving into a poetry of nonstop...
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