Olympics

Gymnast Rebeca Andrade stands proud at end of her breakthrough year

The 22-year-old became Brazil’s first female Olympic gymnastics medallist at the Tokyo Games and has just become world vault champion

4 years ago

Is professional women’s soccer an oxymoron? A blueprint to make sure it’s not

There’s a worrying sense that this league, which undergirds the stellar US national team and the best system of women’s…

4 years ago

Simone Biles docuseries: Women-led crew ‘pivotal’ to filming process, say, producers

The producers of Simone Biles’ new docuseries – which focuses on the gymnast’s Tokyo Olympics journey – have lauded the…

4 years ago

Track Star Allyson Felix Named Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman Of The Year

Felix is the most awarded American in Olympic track and field history.

4 years ago

Kaillie Humphries left Canada to escape alleged abuse. It might cost her an Olympics.

She is the reigning world champion in the monobob and the two-woman bobsled, and she would be among the favorites…

4 years ago

Gymnasts call on Congress to dissolve US Olympics board over Larry Nassar case

Four elite gymnasts are calling on Congress to dissolve the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s board of directors

5 years ago

Gymnastics Is Back! Meet the 4 Women on the 2021 US World Championship Team

Four women were named on the 2021 team: Tokyo Olympic alternates Kayla DiCello and Leanne Wong, eMjae Frazier, and Konnor…

5 years ago

How Holly Bradshaw pushed back against Team GB kit injustice to have last laugh in Tokyo

'I didn’t want to go to the most important competition of my life and not feel comfortable, worried about what…

5 years ago

Olympic medalist becomes first woman to complete swim to Block Island

Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel became the first woman to swim from the Rhode Island mainland to Block Island

5 years ago