by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A female wrestler from India was disqualified from her gold-medal bout at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday morning after weighing in about 100 grams above the maximum limit for her weight class. For context: That’s about 0.22 pounds or 3.5 ounces − roughly the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
American track and field star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone set a new world record and claimed the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles final Thursday, repeating her win in Tokyo. American Anna Cockrell nabbed the silver in an upset over world champion Femke Bol of the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Not done yet. USA women’s volleyball will defend its Olympic gold medal after defeating Brazil in a five-set thriller. The rivalry only got hotter after the teams’ first semifinals meeting. It was a back-and-forth game with no team winning two sets in a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Midge Purce has won an NWSL title and made a few dozen appearances for the U.S. women’s national team. Now she’s branching out into the media world, and has thoughts on how her league has been promoted until now. “I’ve always felt that the NWSL, as well as the way...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
In 1976, Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian athlete, won gold with the first perfect 10 ever scored in the Olympics. After that, the ranks of elite female gymnasts – which previously included women in their 20s and 30s – filled with adolescents and young teens....
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Gabby Thomas was golden in the women’s 200m final, winning her first Olympic title as Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia finished second and American Brittany Brown took third. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 – Aug 11. Read...
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Turning right out of the park skateboarding arena, located on the historic Place de la Concorde, over an hour after the final’s crescendo had come and gone, the view was immediately striking. Hundreds of people had gathered just outside the exit by the stands, penned...
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Amit Elor looked exasperated as she walked to the edge of the mat Tuesday night, her mouth agape, her shoulders shrugged. The moment she’d been dreaming about for her entire life was here, and she didn’t really know what to do. Wave at the crowd? Collapse...
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
It took extra work yet again, but the U.S. women’s national teamwill play for the gold medal after outlasting a resilient Germany 1-0 in a semifinal Tuesday night. Sophia Smith burst into the spotlight just in time for the Americans, scoring the game winner in...
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
With the Olympics underway, a researcher from the University of Minnesota is in Paris taking part in important conversations centered around girls and women in sports. Anna Goorevich, a research assistant with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in...
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