by admin | Jan 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
American AJ Hurt made her first Alpine skiing World Cup podium in her 61st start, placing third in a slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Sunday. Hurt, 23, rallied from 16th place after the first run by posting the fastest second run. “I thought to myself, ‘Well if I...
by admin | Jan 3, 2024 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Jenni Hermoso, the Spain player kissed on the lips by her country’s football association’s president at the Women’s World Cup final in August, appeared in court on Tuesday to testify in the sexual assault case against the former official. Hermoso was...
by admin | Jan 1, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
A gender-equal Olympic Games next year will coincide with increasing sponsorship opportunities for female athletes, experts say, after the Women’s World Cup soccer tournament underscored the growing popularity of women’s sport in 2023. Organisers say...
by admin | Jan 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
With 92 World Cup wins, Mikaela Shiffrin became the most successful and decorated alpine skier of all time in 2023. Shiffrin taking time out to reflect on the highs and lows of the past year with World Sport’s Amanda Davis and Coy Wire. Read More
by admin | Dec 29, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin finished 2023 with an eye-catching performance even by her standards, winning a World Cup slalom race by a huge margin of 2.34 seconds Friday for her 93rd career victory. The American posted the fastest time by far in both runs on the Schlossberg...
by admin | Dec 18, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Federica Brignone dominated to win a World Cup super-G on Sunday and trim the gap in the overall standings to Mikaela Shiffrin, who skied out at Val d’Isere. Brignone beat Kajsa Vickhoff Lie by almost half a second, finishing 0.44 ahead of the Norwegian skier...
by admin | Dec 14, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. women’s national team is ready to move on. After a cruel ending to this summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, in which the Americans were ousted earlier than in any other major tournament in history, this squad is feeling motivated and...
by admin | Dec 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW
A report issued Monday by FIFA and FIFPRO, the global union for soccer players, found that 1 in 5 players at this year’s World Cup were subjected to online abuse, with the U.S. national team the most targeted squad at the tournament. Two players, understood to be the...
by admin | Dec 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Kristen Santos-Griswold became the first U.S. female short track speed skater to win a World Cup 500m, prevailing in Beijing on Saturday. Then on Sunday, Santos-Griswold won the 1000m in a U.S. one-two with Corinne Stoddard for her third race victory this season and...
by admin | Dec 5, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins grabbed the cross-country skiing World Cup standings lead with a dominant 10km freestyle victory by 23.1 seconds on Saturday. Diggins, an Olympic medalist of every color, clocked 24:48.3 in an interval start race in Gällivare, Sweden, where temperatures...
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