by admin | Aug 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The uneven bars began, like all of women’s gymnastics, as a balance event, meant to showcase some flexibility and a lot of ladylike panache. In the subsequent century, however, it grew closer to its distant male cousin, the high bar, evolving into a poetry of nonstop...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jordan Larson is in an “elders group chat.” The members list is a who’s who of American volleyball excellence. And in the weeks, days, even hours leading into Sunday’s Olympic gold medal match, as Larson, 34, cried more than ever before, struck by the emotion of the...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Between them, they boast six Olympic gold medals, two FIFA World Cups, and four WNBA titles, to name just a fraction of what the duo has achieved in their individual careers. But the two elite-level athletes aren’t just icons in their own right – they are a...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It was the women who pushed the United States to the top of the gold medal table in the final hours of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. And it was the women who contributed most of the American success in ways they hadn’t before. Of the 113 total medals Team USA won in...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s water polo team has won gold for the third Olympics in a row, handily beating Spain in the gold medal match thanks to aggressive offense and a goalie who made block after block. Ashleigh Johnson, the first African American woman to make a U.S. Olympic...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sport appeal, not sex appeal. That was the message of the IOC at the start of Tokyo 2020, proudly detailed in their “portrayal guidelines” for gender-equal representation in sport. The guidelines advise: “Avoid passive, sexy imagery of sportspeople which reinforces...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When U.S. gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the Tokyo Games citing her mental health, it set off a global conversation about mental health in sports and the pressure athletes endure to perform even when they’re not at their best. After opening up about her...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After leading Team USA to its seventh straight women’s basketball Olympic gold medal, head coach Dawn Staley said she will not be the one to lead the team to an eighth. In the aftermath of Team USA’s 90–75 win over Japan in Sunday’s gold-medal game,...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
They set records everyone saw coming and others that surprised the experts. They suffered, and battled, and spoke their truth in ways that hadn’t been heard before. Over nine days at the near-empty Olympic Stadium, the women of track and field delivered a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women have competed so well at the Tokyo Summer Olympics that if they for some reason decided to form their own country, their medal haul would be among the highest in the world. The female athletes on Team USA have collectively earned about 60 percent of the...
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