by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
One indisputable fact about The Year of the Global Pandemic is that normalcy was redefined. For women’s golf, that means for the first time the Olympics and the Solheim Cup are in the same year. That’s because, despite retaining the title Tokyo 2020, the Games were...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Beth Potter’s story has it all. She was left off an Olympic team by unlucky circumstances. She turned around and set a world record in a different sport. Then she lost that record. Oh, there are also accusations about her “supershoes.” Read More
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
It was few people’s idea of funny. For the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, its creative director, Hiroshi Sasaki, envisioned a popular comedian and plus-size fashion designer, Naomi Watanabe, decked out in pig ears, tumbling from the sky as an Olympic...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women. In a country where the young are taught to keep quiet and defer to their elders, the trio of women decided to speak out after the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Yoshiro Mori, the 83-year-old who headed the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee, announced his resignation on Friday after an uproar over remarks demeaning women, including saying that female colleagues talk too long at meetings. But the leadership change also...
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