by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had just come up short in her bid for the gold medal in the Olympic women’s snowboard big air contest, but she didn’t even release her boots from her board before diving into a bear hug with winner Anna Gasser of Austria, who was...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics’ youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S.-born freeskier Eileen Gu of China said she’s tired and wants to sleep for days and days yet honored to walk away with the accolades after earning freeski halfpipe gold for her third medal at the 2022 Winter Games. Read More
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico called on the International Olympic Committee to take action after Russian figure skating coaches “failed to protect” Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old star at the center of a doping scandal that dominated the second half of the Beijing...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles jumped to the defense of American skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Thursday after Shiffrin shared on Instagram some of the abusive comments she’s received following her disappointing performances at the Beijing Games, where she...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova took the gold medal in women’s individual program at the Beijing Winter Olympics, in a competition that took place under the shadow of a positive drug test from her teammate Kamila Valieva. Another skater from the Russian...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Suzanne Schulting from the Netherlands is the first woman to earn four short track speed skating medals at a single Olympic Games. Schulting collected the bronze in Wednesday’s 1500m final, her third individual podium finish of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympic women’s ice hockey feud between the United States and Canada has become the best rivalry in the sport because their games have intensity, animosity and an unparalleled quality of play. What they haven’t had is a sense of inevitability: that one...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
It was a really bad time for Mikaela Shiffrin to have a really bad time. That’s all her oh-fer-the Beijing Olympics is. It’s not a summation of her career, a sign she’s lost her edge, a personal indictment or any of the other nonsense that will no...
by admin | Feb 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Team USA’s Elana Meyers Taylor has overcome many challenges throughout her 15-year bobsled career. But in what might be the most impressive feat of these Games, the 37-year-old mother of a toddler overcame COVID-19 and won Olympic silver. Meyers Taylor was...
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