by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
What does marathon running have to do with aerial skiing? Everything if you’re Winter Vinecki, who fittingly will become the first Winter Olympian named “Winter” when she makes her Olympic debut for Team USA this month in China. “Running and competing in other sports...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In what’s expected to be a groundbreaking display of technical ability, a young but mighty trio of Russian figure skaters are set to light up the ice at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Led by 15-year-old Kamila Valiyeva, 17-year-old reigning world champion Anna...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In February 2018 at the PyeongChang Winter Games, an 18-year-old Maame Biney made history as the first Black woman to compete for the United States short track speed skating team at an Olympics. Within two years, she was seriously considering walking away from the...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Guest Blogs, SEW
It’s been six years since the Russian flag and national anthem were banned from the Olympics after the World Anti-Doping Agency uncovered Russia’s state-sponsored doping scheme. Although, this has hardly prevented Russian athletes from competing in international...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Team USA goalie Maddie Rooney will be rocking some slick new gear for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Rooney, a two-time Olympian at just 24 years old, will break out some new pads, a new helmet, a new blocker and a new glove for the Games. After rocking somewhat of a...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maddie Mastro is ready for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics — because she’s been preparing for it her whole life. The 21-year-old from Wrightwood, California, grew up a short distance from Mountain High, the popular winter resort located just over an hour away...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kirsty Muir’s appetite for air-time led her to turn her back on “boring” alpine pursuits and commit to the ramps and rails that could see her soar into medal contention at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The 17-year-old from Aberdeen is one of a new generation of...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
While the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will provide many competitors with the biggest test of their athletic careers, just watching the Olympics – with a 13-hour time difference between China and U.S. eastern time – presents a challenge of its own for viewers asking,...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor wrote that the best way she can send a message about the Olympic host nation, amid calls for various forms of boycotts, is to compete at the Beijing Games. “I understand the concerns about human rights and free expression in China,”...
by admin | Jan 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympics were only five weeks away, and the most prominent Team USA athlete was sequestered in a hotel room in Austria, reduced to doing pull-ups on her bed frame and lunges with a single 15-kilogram plate and knocking on the wall to say hi to her mother in the...
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