by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Neither Serena Williams nor Rafael Nadal is ready to commit to the Tokyo Olympics, one month before the world rankings cutoff to determine the singles fields. “I haven’t really thought much about Tokyo, because it was supposed to be last year and...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to be Mandy Bujold’s swan song, a capstone to the career of one of Canada’s best amateur boxers. Bujold, a 33-year old flyweight, has won 11 Canadian national championships, two Pan American Games titles, and a trip to the Rio de...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Rachel Van Hollebeke’s days start early and end late. Although sometimes it’s the other way around. She’s in the middle of her residency program – that grueling rite of passage for new doctors that involves 80-hour workweeks, sleep deprivation and steep learning...
by admin | May 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The United States women’s national team will play a trio of June friendlies for preparation for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The USWNT will play a pair of matches at Houston’s BBVA Stadium, the first coming against Portugal on June...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kerri Walsh Jennings is in position to reach a sixth Olympics at age 42, but it will likely come down to the last qualifying tournament. In back-to-back-to-back events in Cancun, Mexico, Walsh Jennings and new partner Brooke Sweat retained a lead in the race for...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Female artistic gymnasts have been putting up with leotards for years. The standard for athletes taking part in international competition who did not have a religious reason for covering their whole body was outfits which showed their legs and were tight-fitting...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In 1968 the Romanian gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi saw a six-year-old girl executing immaculately graceful cartwheels during her break at a small rural school. Afterwards he went from classroom to classroom until he found her, and signed her up for his training...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Katie Taylor’s faith — in God, in her fists, in herself — is famous, and maybe infamous. Her drive and determination to be the best, at whatever she was doing, is respected the world over. It isn’t something Taylor developed only in recent...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Clara Lamore figured that making the U.S. Olympic swimming team at 22 was good enough to cap anyone’s athletic career. So after she was eliminated early on at the 1948 Games in London, she threw in the towel, giving up competitive swimming entirely. Thirty-two years...
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Caster Semenya’s fight continues. In February, the South African runner filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, for the right to run in the Tokyo Olympics in her preferred event: the 800-m, a race in which Semenya is the two-time defending Olympic...
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