Her Glasses Match the Water
[Guangzhou, China, November 13: Satomi Suzuki of Japan competes in the Women's 4x100 meter Medley Relay final at the Aoti Aquatics Centre during the first day of the 16th Asian Games. Image via Getty.]
Headed Toward the Finnish Line
[Levi, Finland, November 13: Susanne Riesch of Germany makes her way down a mountain during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Slalom. Image via Getty.]
Glowing After Rowing
[Cambridge, New Zealand, November 6: Rebecca Scown and Juliette Haigh celebrate their victory in the Women's Pair Final during day seven of the World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro. Image via Getty.]
Are Today's Girl Jocks Tomorrow's Female CEOs?
Some of the most successful women grew up playing sports. So do girls need athletics to get ahead?
Carmelita Jeter Reveals Her Ranking
[Monaco, July 22. USA's Carmelita Jeter reacts after winning the 100m Women's race at the Herculis International Athletics Meeting, at the Louis II Stadium. Image via AP]
Semenya Will Return To Running In June
Caster Semenya's lawyers told a South African television station yesterday that the results of her tests are in, and they prove that she can compete as a woman. They say she should have been cleared as early as February. [AP]
"One Of Feminism's Stickiest Subjects": The Sports Question
Writes Judy Berman in Salon, "Although women's bodies can do incredible, unique things of their own (childbirth, anyone?), men seem to have a biological advantage when it comes to feats of strength and speed." But of course it's more complicated:
Girls In Urban Areas Face Unique Challenges In Playing Sports
Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports, and the adults who want to encourage them.
You Say "Jump," She Says "How High"
[Doha, Qatar; May 8. Image via Getty]
Running With Cervixes: Women Overcome Hurdles
As recently as the 1970s women were banned from participating in marathons. Now, middle-aged women who were discouraged from the sport when they were younger are taking up running for the first time.
Teen Girl Focused On Weight
14-year-old Zoe Smith has been dubbed the "strongest girl in Britain" after the 5'2, 126 pound girl lifted almost two thirds more than her body weight.
Michelle Wie finally became a member of the LPGA Tour yesterday, tying for 7th place among the 20 players who earned their LPGA cards at the 2008 Q-School tournament. The 19-year-old used special sponsor's exemptions or invitations to participate in almost all of the LPGA Tour events she competed in previously, but…
South Korean Jang Mi-ran, who won weightlifting gold at the Beijing Olympics, says that after struggling with her weight as a teenager, being an athlete has made her happy with her 275 lbs. "I used to think that my size was a flaw before I started weightlifting," said Jang. "But after I started weightlifting, that has…
Next spring, a 16-year-old schoolgirl will become the first female to play professional baseball in Japan. Eri Yoshida was drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a team in a new independent Japanese league. The 5-foot, 114 pound pitcher successfully held male batters hitless for one inning in her tryout earlier this month.…
This Sunday, Joy Johnson, 81, will run her 21st consecutive New York City marathon. Johnson is the defending champion in the 80-and-over age group, a title she has held for 5 of the past 11 years. In this
Wall Street Journal , Johnson says that when her time started slipping a year ago, rather than accepting that she…
In 1982, at the age of 25, Barbara Buchan was competing for a spot on the U.S. cycling team when a horrific accident shattered her skull and left her in a coma for two months. Doctors didn't think she would survive, and even when she woke up they said she may never speak or walk again. But Buchan struggled through six…
Golden Boys: Jason Kidd, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Dwight Howard
(L to R) USA's Jason Kidd, USA's Dwyane Wade, USA's LeBron James and USA's Dwight Howard celebrate at the end of the men's semi-final basketball match Argentina against The US of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 22, 2008 at the Olympic basketball Arena in Beijing. The US won 101-81. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO…
Golden Girls: Heather Mitts
BEIJING - AUGUST 21: Heather Mitts of United States runs with the ball during the Women's Football Gold Medal match between Brazil and the United States on Day 13 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 21, 2008 at Worker's Stadium in Beijing, China. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Retro Sports Style: The Haircuts & Smiles Were As Uneven As A Gym Apparatus
We think everyone can agree that it's been an amazing two weeks of the Olympic games: Michael, Usain, Rebecca, Nastia, Shelly-Ann, Dita, Valerie, Kerri and others have both entertained and awed. And even though the games are just about four days away from ending, and the major news networks are already running (and …
Golden Girls: Andrea Fuentes, Gemma Mengual
Spanish Andrea Fuentes and Gemma Mengual (R) perform in the synchronized swimming duet free routine final event at the National Aquatics Center during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 20, 2008. Russians Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova won the Olympic synchronised swimming gold medal here…
