by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After leading Team USA to its seventh straight women’s basketball Olympic gold medal, head coach Dawn Staley said she will not be the one to lead the team to an eighth. In the aftermath of Team USA’s 90–75 win over Japan in Sunday’s gold-medal game,...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
They set records everyone saw coming and others that surprised the experts. They suffered, and battled, and spoke their truth in ways that hadn’t been heard before. Over nine days at the near-empty Olympic Stadium, the women of track and field delivered a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women have competed so well at the Tokyo Summer Olympics that if they for some reason decided to form their own country, their medal haul would be among the highest in the world. The female athletes on Team USA have collectively earned about 60 percent of the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Israeli rhythmic gymnastics superstar Linoy Ashram won the Olympic gold medal in the Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics all-around final on Saturday, becoming the first Israeli woman ever to win an Olympic gold medal. “It was an amazing feeling to stand on the podium in the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The Japanese women’s basketball team put together a smart and efficient game plan, ran it to such perfection that instructional videos could be made from the edits and showed off a roster in which everyone could shoot, dribble and pass. It was a brilliant...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix lies on the track for several minutes, completely exhausted after earning bronze in the women’s 400 meters with a time of 49.26 seconds. “Nobody believed I would be here today,” Felix told reporters in Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium an...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s national team will leave the Tokyo Olympics with a bronze medal in hand, and a final performance that looked a bit more like what we all expected to see from the No. 1-ranked team in the world. The bronze-medal game was the first in Japan in...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
First-time Olympian Jessica Springsteen will leave Japan with a silver medal. The daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa won silver on Saturday night at the Tokyo Summer Games along with Laura Kraut and McLain Ward as the three-person U.S. equestrian team...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For the first time, Canada’s women’s soccer team has won gold at the Olympic Games. Canada’s victory in penalty kicks against Sweden was monumental in more ways than one. In addition to the country winning its first title at a major international...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Until a few years ago, elite Colorado track and field athlete Annie Kunz used to feel fatigued — even during her warmups. And then there was the constant hunger: Sometimes her stomach would growl in the middle of practice. She felt like she was always thinking about...
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