by admin | Jun 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s basketball team has a few questions surrounding its roster as the Americans prepare to make a run at a seventh consecutive gold medal in the Olympics. There are six returning Olympians — Sue Bird, Tina Charles, Sylvia Fowles, Brittney Griner, Breanna...
by admin | Jun 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sha’Carri Richardson somehow contains an abundance of both humility and self-confidence. Look first at her Instagram, which is filled with mirror selfies, photos of the few times she has been able to go out with friends this past year, some Nike promo images, posts...
by admin | Jun 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
An Australian swimmer has withdrawn from upcoming Olympic trials, citing “misogynistic perverts” in the sport. Madeline Groves, 26, said in 2020 she had complained “a few years ago” about an unnamed person in the sport who had made her feel uncomfortable. Announcing...
by admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Three-time beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings was defeated in her bid to reach a sixth Olympics when she and partner Brooke Sweat lost in a qualifying match Wednesday in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The early-round loss to the Netherlands means the U.S....
by admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jordan Chiles was just joking when she first started talking to Simone Biles about changing gyms and joining her at the World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas. But the more they talked about it, the more Chiles couldn’t stop thinking about it. She enjoyed...
by admin | May 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At the end of Simone Biles‘ most recent gymnastics meet, she lifted five gold medals from around her neck in an image shared around the globe. That was at the October 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart. Biles performed at the peak of her powers, but it...
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 | 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...
by admin | Apr 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s soccer team’s first Tokyo Olympic opponent is Sweden, which knocked the Americans out of the Rio Olympics. The Americans face the Swedes on July 21, the first day of competition across all sports and two days before the Opening Ceremony, at Tokyo...
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