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Ski jumping-Bloodied Norwegian Opseth sets world record

by admin | Mar 20, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Norwegian ski jumper Silje Opseth set a women’s world record when she flew 230.5 metres down the Monsterbakken in Vikersund, Norway on Sunday. The 24-year-old jumped 236 metres in the trial run but fell on landing, sustaining bloody injuries to her face. But...

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark breaks NCAA women’s hoops scoring record

by admin | Feb 19, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has captured the NCAA’s women’s all-time points record, surpassing 3,527 points on Thursday against the Michigan Wolverines. The Hawkeyes guard overtook previous record holder Kelsey Plum in 13 fewer career games, while taking...

Mikaela Shiffrin ties Lindsey Vonn’s record with 82nd World Cup win

by admin | Jan 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW

U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin has tied Lindsey Vonn’s record for the most alpine World Cup wins by a woman, at 82. Shiffrin, 27, took home the title Sunday during the giant slalom event in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. She beat Italy’s Federica Brignone by 0.77...

Jessie Diggins breaks U.S. record for World Cup cross-country ski wins, contacts freeze

by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Jessie Diggins broke the U.S. record with her 14th career individual FIS cross-country skiing World Cup win and was joined on the podium by countrywoman Rosie Brennan. Diggins, the most decorated U.S. Olympic cross-country skier with a medal of every color, broke the...

Kate Douglass grabs first individual gold in U.S. 1-2 at short course swimming worlds

by admin | Dec 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW

After three previous bronze medals, Kate Douglass picked up her first individual global title, kicking off the world short course swimming championships with an American record in the 200m individual medley. Douglass, the Olympic 200m IM bronze medalist, prevailed...

Kara Winger was at peace with her javelin career. Then came the podium performances

by admin | Oct 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Javelin thrower Kara Winger admits to succumbing to bouts of procrastination, but the nine-time U.S. national champion is adamant that it was not her intention for her final competitive season to become a display of “carpe diem” moments. “I’m a procrastinator – 100...

Eilish McColgan rounds off a fantastic season by breaking more records.

by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Eilish McColgan ended a fantastic 2022 season by setting new European and British 10k road records on home turf at the Great Scottish Run. The triple Olympian knocked one second of her previous record, set in Manchester earlier this year, to cross the line in 30:18....

Faith Kipyegon, ‘the sniper,’ becomes greatest female mile champ in history at track worlds

by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW

In 2015, Jenny Simpson, arguably the greatest U.S. female miler in history, slapped a label on a budding runner from Kenya named Faith Kipyegon. “I call her the sniper,” Simpson said then, three months after the then-21-year-old Kipyegon won her first global 1500m...

Katie Ledecky wins 1,500m free, earning record-extending 17th world title

by admin | Jun 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Katie Ledecky won a record-extending 17th swimming world title with a comfortable victory in the 1,500m free in Budapest on Monday. With this latest gold medal, Ledecky also tied fellow American Natalie Coughlin for the women’s record of 20 career medals at the...

Katie Ledecky Breaks Down What Training in Florida is Like

by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Katie Ledecky did it again. After pulling out a body length ahead by the end of the first 100, Ledecky won the event in 4:00.51, breaking her own U.S. Open meet record from 2019. She finished with a sub-1:00 time, mimicking her speed from prelims when she swam the...

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