by admin | Oct 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Before the U.S. women’s basketball team began the 2022 FIBA World Cup with an overhauled roster, some wondered whether a squad with only five returning players from last season’s Tokyo Olympics might be vulnerable. But just as generational talents such as...
by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The revamped U.S. women’s basketball team may have been the greatest of all time. The Americans completed, statistically, their most dominant global championship ever by routing China 83-61 in the FIBA World Cup final on Saturday in Sydney — giving them 60 consecutive...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the 30-plus years I’ve covered Olympic figure skating, I thought I had seen and heard it all, from Tonya-Nancy to the French judge, from Russian cheating to, well, Russian cheating, most recently the Kamila Valieva scandal at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. But...
by admin | Sep 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
This week, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency announced the completion of its investigation of Olympic figure skater Kamila Valieva without revealing its results but said that the next step in the excruciatingly delayed process would be to organize hearings in the case....
by admin | Sep 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A week after chronic foot pain forced Bradie Tennell to withdraw from the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the impact of that situation hit her full force. Tennell was the defending national champion, a good bet to make the 2022 Olympic team had she been...
by admin | Jul 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympic soccer competition at the 2024 Paris Games will conclude with the women’s final—instead of the men’s—for the first time. FIFA announced the Olympic soccer competition schedule on Wednesday. The governing body also said there will be no double-headers in...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lee Kiefer, who in Tokyo became the second U.S. woman to win an Olympic fencing gold medal, claimed foil bronze at the world championships in Cairo on Tuesday. Kiefer, 28 and ranked No. 1 in the world, won her first four bouts before falling to Italian veteran Arianna...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Alex Morgan scored a penalty late in the second half to guide the United States to a 1-0 victory over Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday night. The game was a rematch of last summer’s Olympic semifinal game, which Canada...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin is used to steering through twists and turns. But nothing could have prepared the champion Alpine skier for the last two years: the sudden death of her father, a debilitating back injury, and a positive COVID-19 test that forced her to miss some World...
by admin | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
It was an unusual place to hold a high-jump competition — a parking lot outside a shopping mall in late June. Customers stopped briefly with their bags. A cluster of spectators, including Ukrainian war refugees finding a moment to cheer, stood along a railing. Human...
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