by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Elena Delle Donne of the Washington Mystics who was named co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to former US ski and snowboarding...
by admin | Mar 23, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
Three former athletes and a former employee of U.S. Ski and Snowboard have accused former longtime head coach Peter Foley of sexual misconduct including sexual assault, unwanted kissing and touching, and coercing them into taking nude photos, according to interviews...
by admin | Mar 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After the legal fight France’s Cecile Hernandez and Team USA’s Brenna Huckaby endured to reach Beijing, the turns, berms, and jumps ended up being the easy part. In the women’s snowboard cross final (LL2 classification) on Monday at the 2022 Winter Paralympics,...
by admin | Mar 1, 2022 | Guest Blogs, SEW
It may come as no surprise, but the female athletes competing for Team USA dominated at the Beijing Winter Olympics with 17 out of 25 medals earned by women. Out of that total, 13 medals came from individual women’s events, and the remaining four were from...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had just come up short in her bid for the gold medal in the Olympic women’s snowboard big air contest, but she didn’t even release her boots from her board before diving into a bear hug with winner Anna Gasser of Austria, who was...
by admin | Feb 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jamie Anderson and Julia Marino had their bubbles burst before qualifying began for women’s snowboard big air. Behind the scenes, these pandemic Olympics haven’t been what they hoped. “Just like a little bit tapped out,” Anderson said....
by admin | Feb 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Jacobellis looked at the final results and laughed. Not at the outcome, but at the birth years. Only one other rider – besides she and teammate Nick Baumgartner – in the snowboardcross mixed team final was born in the 1980s. All those younger snowboarders,...
by admin | Feb 13, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Ski & Snowboard said it is aware of claims of sexual harassment and racism that were made against a snowboarding coach and athlete who are at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Earlier this week, 2010 U.S. Olympian Callan Chythlook-Sifsof leveled...
by admin | Feb 13, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Chloe Kim who not only won a gold medal in the women’s halfpipe but also became the first woman ever to win multiple golds in the discipline. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Rory Dames and...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim has continued her dominance on the halfpipe. The champion claimed her second gold medal on Thursday, becoming the first woman to ever win multiple gold medals in the women’s event since it became an Olympic sport in 1998. Kim last won gold during the 2018...
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