by admin | Mar 1, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Becoming a pioneer for Black American women in track and field wasn’t initially on the radar for Alice Coachman, but that’s exactly what happened in 1948 when Coachman became the first Black woman ever – from any country – to win an Olympic gold medal. This summer...
by admin | Feb 20, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Femke Bol, the Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medalist, broke the longest-standing world record in a track race, taking down a 41-year-old record in the women’s indoor 400m on Sunday. Bol, 22, ran 49.26 seconds at the Dutch indoor championships in Apeldoorn. “When I...
by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW
It’s a not-so-happy Olympic anniversary this week. A year ago, Russia won the team figure skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, powered by teenage phenom Kamila Valieva. But her subsequent positive drug testmarred the Games and left the team results in...
by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Russian Svetlana Romashina, the most decorated artistic swimmer in Olympic history with seven gold medals, announced her retirement at age 33. Romashina entered seven Olympic artistic swimming events and won all of them, starting in 2008. She won four Olympic titles...
by admin | Feb 6, 2023 | Representation, SEW
he Florida Panthers are offering Canadian forward Sarah Nurse a job to run their new program designed to get more girls playing hockey. Nurse scored a highlight-reel goal against New York Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin during the NHL’s All-Star Skills Competition...
by admin | Feb 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW
It wasn’t long after the Tokyo Olympics, the first Games that Kerri Walsh Jennings missed since 1996, that the beach volleyball legend finally made the phone call. Walsh Jennings, now 44, dialed now-41-year-old Logan Tom, her teammate at Stanford in 1999 and on the...
by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Germans Laura Nolte and Johannes Lochner dethroned the reigning Olympic and world champions to open the world bobsled championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland, this weekend. Nolte, the Olympic two-woman champion driver, won the four-run monobob by four tenths of a...
by admin | Jan 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Olympic beach volleyball champion Alix Klineman announced she is pregnant, sharing sonograms on social media on Monday. Klineman, 33, and retired NHL player Teddy Purcell, 37, are having a boy, according to the post. Read More
by admin | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The University of Southern California renamed its track and field venue after alum Allyson Felix, the most decorated female Olympic track and field athlete with 11 medals, including seven gold. The former Cromwell Field is now Allyson Felix Field. Felix turned...
by admin | Jan 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Two-time Olympic athlete Ana José Tima was provisionally suspended for two positive tests for doping substances, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday. The AIU said José Tima, a triple jumper from the Dominican Republic, was notified of...
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