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Svetlana Romashina, seven-time Olympic champion artistic swimmer, retires

by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Russian Svetlana Romashina, the most decorated artistic swimmer in Olympic history with seven gold medals, announced her retirement at age 33. Romashina entered seven Olympic artistic swimming events and won all of them, starting in 2008. She won four Olympic titles...

Panthers offer Sarah Nurse deal to lead girls hockey program

by admin | Feb 6, 2023 | Representation, SEW

he Florida Panthers are offering Canadian forward Sarah Nurse a job to run their new program designed to get more girls playing hockey. Nurse scored a highlight-reel goal against New York Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin during the NHL’s All-Star Skills Competition...

Kerri Walsh Jennings is back for one more beach volleyball run

by admin | Feb 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW

It wasn’t long after the Tokyo Olympics, the first Games that Kerri Walsh Jennings missed since 1996, that the beach volleyball legend finally made the phone call. Walsh Jennings, now 44, dialed now-41-year-old Logan Tom, her teammate at Stanford in 1999 and on the...

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...

Alix Klineman, beach volleyball gold medalist, is pregnant, may make 2024 Olympic run

by admin | Jan 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Olympic beach volleyball champion Alix Klineman announced she is pregnant, sharing sonograms on social media on Monday. Klineman, 33, and retired NHL player Teddy Purcell, 37, are having a boy, according to the post. Read More

Allyson Felix Field: USC names track and field venue after Olympic legend

by admin | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized

The University of Southern California renamed its track and field venue after alum Allyson Felix, the most decorated female Olympic track and field athlete with 11 medals, including seven gold. The former Cromwell Field is now Allyson Felix Field. Felix turned...

Olympic triple jumper Ana José Tima suspended in doping case

by admin | Jan 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Two-time Olympic athlete Ana José Tima was provisionally suspended for two positive tests for doping substances, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday. The AIU said José Tima, a triple jumper from the Dominican Republic, was notified of...

U.S. Olympian Lashinda Demus To Get Gold Medal From 2012 London Games After Russian Athlete Stripped In Doping Scandal

by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Lashinda Demus will now get a gold medal for the 400-meter hurdle race from the 2012 London Olympic Games due to Russian Olympian Natalya Antyukh being stripped of her gold medal proof of doping 10 years later. On Wednesday, Dec. 21, the Athletics Integrity Unit...

Kaillie Humphries, Kaysha Love win first bobsled World Cup together since Olympics

by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Kaillie Humphries earned her 30th bobsled World Cup victory, reuniting with Olympic brakewoman Kaysha Love and winning in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Sunday. Humphries, a three-time Olympic champion, and Love won by 12 hundredths of a second over reigning Olympic champion...

Lara Gut-Behrami, Olympic super-G champion, pessimistic about 2026 Olympics

by admin | Dec 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Lara Gut-Behrami, a three-time time Olympic medalist and reigning Olympic super-G champion, reportedly said she thinks she will retire at some point before the 2026 Winter Games. Gut-Behrami, a 31-year-old who has raced on the World Cup since age 16, said continuing...
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