by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On a Sunday afternoon in June, Sophia Gorriarian celebrated her 16th birthday in a state 3,000 miles from where she lives in Rhode Island. The youngest athlete running in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, Gorriaran was just four days away from one of the...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just days after the Tokyo Olympics, a Polish javelin thrower auctioned off her silver medal to help pay for an infant’s heart surgery. Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk announced on Facebook last week that she would sell her medal and put the proceeds toward an operation for...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcome four-time Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes to discuss everything from mental health in gymnastics to the time Prince made her hot cocoa before a music video shoot (8:00). Plus, OnlyFans changes its policies (35:33), Jeopardy!’s...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
ot long ago, Gabby Thomas thought that at age 24, she would be working for a nonprofit medical organization, or maybe as a hospital administrator, with a focus on eliminating racial disparities in health care. That was the plan – make the 2020 Olympics, maybe try a...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk has auctioned off her Tokyo 2020 silver medal to help fund heart surgery for an eight-month-old boy. Andrejczyk, who came fourth at Rio 2016, recovered from bone cancer following a diagnosis in 2018, and went on to claim silver...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Canada women’s national team goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe announced her engagement to fellow Olympian Georgia Simmerling in an Instagram post on Monday. Labbe, who was instrumental in securing gold with Canada at the Tokyo Olympics, posted that Simmerling, who has...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Donned in a loose-fitting gray tee, her hair in pigtails, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the athletic superstar otherwise known as “Pocket Rocket” (or “Mommy Rocket” since the birth of her son) welcomes me into her home, on the other side of a Zoom screen. At 9am, I could...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Alex Morgan was just seven years old when the 1996 Olympics took place in Atlanta. She watched Michelle Akers and Julie Foudy lead the US to the first-ever Olympic gold in women’s soccer, in front of 80,000 electrified fans. Foudy would not know of Morgan – now one of...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Las Vegas center Liz Cambage said she thinks not playing in the Olympics essentially saved the rest of her WNBA season for the Aces. “I had no idea how exhausted, stressed and broken I was,” Cambage said Sunday after the Aces’ 84-83 comeback win over...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It may not be at the Olympics, but Sha’Carri Richardson will get the chance to run the 100 meters against the fastest women in the world. Richardson, who couldn’t take part in the 100 at the Tokyo Olympics due to a failed drug test, will run the 100 at...
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