by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It wasn’t even close. The U.S. women’s 4×400 meter relay team won gold, beating the closest competition, Poland, by more than three and a half seconds. The gold medal for U.S. star Allyson Felix brings her Olympic medal total up to 11, making her the...
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Rhythmic Gymnast Margarita Mamun spent five years representing Russia on the international stage. In 2016, at the Rio Olympics, she made an impressive comeback against Yana Kudryavtseva to win gold in the individual all-around final. After retiring in 2017,...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix is a 10-time Olympic medalist. The 35-year-old California native, running blind out of lane 9, won bronze in the women’s 400 meters on Friday in a season-best 49.46 seconds. Defending Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas was the gold...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jessica Springsteen and the U.S. equestrian jumping team earned an encore performance in qualifying Friday night. Springsteen and gold medal-winning teammates Laura Kraut and McLain Ward secured a spot in Saturday night’s team jumping final with a trio of nearly...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At the Tokyo Olympics, more elite athletes than ever are speaking out about the need for more support for mothers. When the starting pistol went off at the Olympic Stadium for the women’s 400-meter final on Friday, two mothers were on the starting line – Allyson...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The CCTV segment with Gong Lijiao, who won the women’s shot put final on Sunday, also described her as a “manly woman”. Netizens have criticised the interview calling it sexist and narrow-minded. They discussed it online with the hashtag: “Is...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nine years ago, the London Olympics played host to one of the legendary matches in USWNT history. The U.S. defeated Canada 4-3 in extra time, scoring the winner in the 123rd minute. I mean “legendary” in the everyday sense; it was a thriller, an instant...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
If you were to time travel to Paris to the Olympic Games in 1900, when women were first allowed to compete, you would probably be shocked by what they wore. Instead of the skimpier attire we’re used to seeing on women athletes, like the bikini bottoms Olympic...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Former President Trump on Thursday criticized an old target — the U.S. women’s national soccer team — by saying players would have won the gold medal and not the bronze at the Olympics if they weren’t “woke.” “Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad,...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nevin Harrison was 14 years old when the doctor told her she was finished. All she’d ever wanted to be was an athlete. But athletics, she was told, weren’t feasible. She was, at the time, a multi-sport star with Olympic dreams. “I always dreamed of it being in track,”...
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