by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tennis star Sloane Stephens is opening up about mental health ahead of the 2021 U.S. Open. Mental health for athletes at the top of their game has been brought to the forefront in 2021, largely due to athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles opening up on their own...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Hours after beating Team USA with a 18–14 double double in under 30 minutes of playing time in the 2021 WNBA All-Star Game, Sun star Jonquel Jones explained what her latest season in Russia had been like. It was unlike any of the previous three years she had spent in...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka, preparing to compete in her first tennis tournament since the Tokyo Olympics, briefly took a break during a pre-tournament news conference on Monday after she started crying. The Western & Southern Open news conference in Mason, Ohio, began with Osaka...
by admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It ought to go without saying that Biles does not owe any of us an explanation—or any gymnastics. While we all want to know what happened, why she scratched isn’t even really what’s important here. What is important is that a grown adult athlete...
by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
After withdrawing from the women’s team gymnastics final on Tuesday, Simone Biles toldassembled reporters that she had pulled out to “focus on her mindfulness” and her mental health after a “long week.” Biles, who struggled on her vault during the first rotation...
by admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
French Open organizers defended their “pragmatic” approach in their dealings with four-time major champion Naomi Osaka during the tournament, saying Sunday they tried to engage with her several times before she decided to withdraw because she...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In Australia, female athletes have been asked absurdly inappropriate questions by journalists, and the media has sometimes taken a patronizing and belittling attitude to reporting on women in sport. Tennis player Andy Murray made a pointed commentsome...
by admin | Jun 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
After Michael Phelps heard on Monday that Naomi Osaka had pulled out of the French Open, and he read her Instagram message explaining why—Osaka cited “feeling vulnerable and anxious” in Paris, and revealed that she has suffered from “long bouts” of depression since...
by admin | Jun 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What I know about tennis as a sport couldn’t fill a water bottle. It enters my consciousness only via headlines, as it did this week when Naomi Osaka, currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world, announced that she would withdraw from the French Open. She...
by admin | Jun 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s second day of play at the French Open yet it’s hard to imagine a bigger story emerging from this year’s tournament. On Monday, Naomi Osaka announced that she is withdrawing from the event. “I’ll take some time away from the...
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