by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Diana Taurasi has been practicing with the U.S. women’s basketball team since it arrived in Tokyo this week, and said she’s still hopeful of being able to play in the Americans’ Olympic opener July 27. Taurasi has been dealing with a hip injury and...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There have been a few basketball dynasties throughout history that you just don’t want to get caught betting against. The Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. The UConn Huskies in the 2000s. The Phoenix Suns in the 2020 play-in bubble. This summer, the world gets to...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Team USA striker Alex Morgan, 32, is one of the biggest stars in women’s football, already an Olympic gold medallist and a two-time World Cup winner who will be keen to add another honour to her collection at Tokyo 2020. Morgan first caught the eye a decade...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It only seems as if Oksana Chusovitina will compete forever. Almost three times older than some of the other gymnasts in Tokyo, the 46-year-old said Thursday that this, her eighth Olympics, will be her last. Told that she has said that before, only to keep going,...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Five-times Olympic champion Katie Ledecky is focused and improving fast in the run-up to the Tokyo Games, her coach said on Thursday, as she embarks on a gruelling quest for five gold medals to cement her place in swimming history. Ledecky comes in as the favourite in...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Five women’s soccer teams took a knee ahead of their opening matches at the 2020 Summer Games.Great Britain and Chile teams took a knee on the pitch before their match, and the United States and Sweden teams knelt ahead of their clash on Wednesday. It’s...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Four-time Olympic women’s basketball gold medalist Sue Bird and baseball player Eddy Alvarez have been chosen as U.S. flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday night. Alvarez, who won a silver medal in speedskating at the 2014 Sochi...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At least a step slow. Incapable of holding possession. Little production from the midfield. Outplayed from start to finish. The United States women’s soccer team didn’t just lose their Olympic opener to Sweden 3-0 here on Wednesday. They were dominated in the kind of...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Norway’s women’s beach handball team was fined by the European Handball Federation on Monday, after players wore shorts, instead of the required bikini bottoms, during a game over the weekend. The International Handball Federation requires women to wear bikini bottoms...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
United States women’s national team captain Becky Sauerbrunn is in Hartford, Conn., preparing for the final tune-up games for the Summer Olympics. In a few days, the group will leave for Japan and attempt to become the first women’s soccer team to win a World Cup and...
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