by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Professional Fighters League (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league in the world, today announced the signing of Cynthia Vanessa Vescan, one of the most talented female freestyle wrestlers in the world. Read More
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Seven years ago, Romanian Larisa Iordache was on top of the gymnastics world. She’d come closer than any other woman had or would to defeating Simone Biles on the global stage when she finished second at the 2014 World Gymnastics...
by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s national soccer team has not lost since January 2019, a 3-1 defeat at France in a pre-World Cup friendly that was not as close as the score suggested. More than two years later, the titans will collide at the same location — the northern...
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It was right around this time last spring when Alice Merryweather committed herself to losing weight she had no reason to lose. It would become her focus. The world was shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic. The World Cup ski circuit she had worked so hard...
by admin | Mar 14, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week we offer our congratulations to Mia Hamm, soccer legend, and newest inductee into the Women’s Hall of Fame. She is our highlight! ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to John Zimmerman, former Olympic...
by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
23-year old Katie Ledecky has been using a backyard pool to keep training during the pandemic. Usually she trains at Stanford. The five-time Olympic gold medalist had to depend on neighbors, and generosity, just as everyone else has for the last year. Read More
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A few years after competing in synchronized swimming at the 2012 London Olympics, Szofi Kiss of Hungary began working with a coach from Russia, whom she would identify only by her first name as Natalia. The coach, Kiss said, separated some members of her training...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What’s it like to make history and have everyone forget about it immediately? Wyomia Tyus knows. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Tyus became the first person in history — man or woman — to win two consecutive gold medals in the 100-meter dash. It...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Famer and former Olympian John Zimmerman was suspended from the sport after allegations that he covered up the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old female skater that he coached, according to USA Today’s Christine Brennan. Zimmerman was...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As a young child I can still vividly remember watching the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, mesmerized by Dominique Dawes, as she became the first Black person of any nationality or gender to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. I grew up listening to friends talk...
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