by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Although gymnast Simone Biles’ medal count fell slightly short of the sports world’s lofty expectations in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, she dominated among U.S. Olympians in the number of times her handle, @Simone_Biles, was mentioned on Twitter. Pew Research Center...
by admin | Sep 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Though the Tokyo Olympics are just barely in the rearview mirror, Alex Morgan and the US Women’s National Team are already looking ahead to what comes next. “You look at the next big tournament, which is the World Cup, and we have two years,” Morgan...
by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Runner Breanna Clark won gold in the women’s 400 meters in the T20 classification at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on August 31, setting a new world record in the process with a time of 55.18 seconds. (The T20 classification is a sport class for intellectual...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Oksana Masters cruised to a gold medal Tuesday in her classification of a hand-cycle time trial in Tokyo. It was her ninth career Paralympics medal and third of the gold variety. Masters, 32, who shuffled between Ukrainian orphanages as a youth with birth defects...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With all due respect to the in-the-hunt-for-a-championship Orlando Pride soccer team, the best action tends to go down after the pros have left the pitch. That’s when Alex Morgan will bring 15-month-old daughter Charlie to run around the field at Exploria...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
ot long ago, Gabby Thomas thought that at age 24, she would be working for a nonprofit medical organization, or maybe as a hospital administrator, with a focus on eliminating racial disparities in health care. That was the plan – make the 2020 Olympics, maybe try a...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk has auctioned off her Tokyo 2020 silver medal to help fund heart surgery for an eight-month-old boy. Andrejczyk, who came fourth at Rio 2016, recovered from bone cancer following a diagnosis in 2018, and went on to claim silver...
by admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Fresh off her third-straight Olympic run with Team USA to result in a gold medal, Washington Mystics star center and Queens native Tina Charles attended the first game of the New York Mets’ doubleheader Thursday and threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Sitting in the...
by admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles commented on a video of a fellow gymnast falling headfirst on the mat to demonstrate how bad her disorienting case of the twisties got at the Tokyo Olympics. “This happened more times than I would’ve wanted in practice at the games,” Biles tweeted...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approached, fans around the world struggled to balance their excitement with a general uneasiness surrounding the Games. These included high-profile firings, volunteers quitting, abnormally high temperatures, low vaccination rates as well as...
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