by admin | Oct 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Jess Davis, a 31-year-old from Connecticut, is the first (and possibly only) American to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics in modern pentathlon. Davis finished fourth at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, grabbing the third and final Olympic spot available...
by admin | Oct 11, 2023 | Representation, SEW
U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit, according to her daughter McKenna Kelley’s Instagram story. Retton was admitted to the hospital with “a very rare form of pneumonia,” per Kelley’s post on Tuesday afternoon....
by admin | Sep 26, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Nineteen months after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s positive doping test kept the 2022 Beijing Olympics’ team figure skating medals from being awarded, nothing has been resolved. Valieva’s eligibility still is being debated, and the medals remain in storage....
by admin | Aug 15, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Coach Billie Moore sat her basketball team down before its 1976 silver medal match against Czechoslovakia at the Montreal Summer Games. The squad had endured a long and winding journey to get to this point, now on the precipice of history. Moore delivered an important...
by admin | Aug 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
When Simone Biles returned to training less than a year ago, she wanted to have fun and get back into shape. That’s it. She popped in and out of the gym, sometimes taking off for long stretches. She had speaking engagements in the fall, then became busy with the...
by admin | Jul 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo is the first member of the U.S. Olympic team for Paris. Katie Grimes, 17, became the first American to make the 2024 Olympic team across all sports by winning a bronze medal in the open-water 10km at the world...
by admin | May 5, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Jordan Larson, who in Tokyo captained the U.S. to its first Olympic women’s volleyball title as tournament MVP, is returning to the national team for the first time since the Games. Larson, 36, competed at the last three Olympics, winning a medal of every color. Read...
by admin | May 4, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie’s death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the passing...
by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Hilary Knight headlines a U.S. women’s hockey roster for this month’s world championship that lacks some of the biggest names from last year’s Olympic silver-medal team. Changes have been made as the U.S. looks to end losing streaks to Canada, both overall and in...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Australian swimming star Kaylee McKeownsmashed the women’s 200 metres backstroke world record at the NSW State Championships in Sydney, Australia on Friday 10 March. The 21-year-old reigning Olympic champion won the final of the discipline in 2:03.14 breaking the...
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