by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The International Skating Union will raise the minimum age for competitors in senior events from 15 to 17 to protect skaters’ “physical and mental health, and emotional well-being”. The decision comes after the controversy surrounding Kamila Valieva...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka is one of tennis’s hardest hitters, with a powerful serve that topped 125mph at the 2016 US Open. It’s a swiftness and strength that, two years later, won her the first of four Grand Slam championships, beating her idol Serena Williams at just 19 years of...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
US athletics great Allyson Felix said Monday she had “no regrets” about her medal-studded sports career which she expects to wind up after this season. “I’ve had so many ups and downs along the way but I can’t imagine my life without...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Los Angeles Sparks center Liz Cambage pushed back Sunday against a report from an Australian newspaper that she directed a racial slur toward the Nigerian women’s basketball team during a pre-Olympic scrimmage last year in Las Vegas. “The incident that...
by admin | May 26, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Teri McKeever, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Olympic swimming head coach, was put on paid administrative leave by Cal Berkeley amid an investigation into a report that 20 current or former Cal swimmers said McKeever verbally and emotionally bullied her swimmers....
by admin | May 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya said she offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. In an interview with HBO Real Sports, she also accused track and field’s world governing body of making...
by admin | May 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Carina Vogt, who in 2014 won the first Olympic women’s ski jumping competition, announced her retirement on Friday, according to the German Ski Association. Vogt, 30, reportedly said injuries over the last two years took away her confidence and risk-taking, leaving...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Two months after adding two more Olympic medals to her resume, U.S. cross-country star Jessie Diggins took her hardware to Capitol Hill, where she was among several winter Olympians to lobby members of Congress to act on climate change. “Winning a gold medal for me...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Olympic 100m and 200m champion, withdrew before what would have been her Diamond League season debut on Saturday after discomfort in training. Thompson-Herah pulled out of the meet in Birmingham, Great Britain (broadcast info here), out of...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Skate Mania isn’t much different than it was two decades ago when Erin Jackson first walked in. The sprawling wooden floor beneath fluorescent lights; the smell of brown leather roller skates; the snack bar; and the same teenage dreams inside four walls of painted...
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