EVENT NEWS
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April 20, 2026
First-ever team time trial at Tour de France Femmes set for London in 2027 and ‘will feel surreal’ for British riders as details for opening trio of UK stages revealed
The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2027 will begin in the UK with organisers ASO announcing the details of the first three stages held from July 30 to August 1, including a debut team time trial on the streets of London moving into France. “The Team Time Trial has always been...
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April 17, 2026
How Fiesta Bowl platform adds ‘instant credibility’ to women’s flag football
About three years ago when Erik Moses was settling into his new role as the executive director and CEO of the Fiesta Sports Foundation, he began to notice how quickly the sport of women’s flag football was growing. The Fiesta Bowl had just hosted Diana Flores, the captain and quarterback...
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April 15, 2026
WNBA draft second-most watched ever with 1.5M viewers
With uncertainty over the identity of the top overall pick and new NCAA champion UCLA producing a record number of selections, the WNBA draft drew its second-highest viewership total ever on Monday. According to ESPN, 1.5 million watched the event, a 20% increase from last year's draft. The audience reached...
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April 15, 2026
USWNT and Japan set record for largest crowd in Seattle women’s sports history
For the first time since July 27, 2017 the U.S. returned to Seattle at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) for the first time in nearly nine years. In the USWNT match versus Japan, they set a standalone record for the largest crowd for a women’s sporting event in Seattle history. In the...
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April 5, 2026
PWHL game at Madison Square Garden sets U.S. pro women’s hockey attendance record
The PWHL has another professional women's hockey attendance record in the U.S., with the game between the New York Sirens and Seattle Torrent at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night drawing a crowd of 18,006. The previous high water mark was 17,335 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Feb....
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April 2, 2026
How has Women’s March Madness changed alongside ‘crazy’ growth? We asked 5 players
In a USA Today piece timed to the 2026 Women’s Final Four, five NCAA Tournament players reflect on how “Women’s March Madness” has changed as the sport grows in visibility, revenue, and fan intensity. Players describe the tournament atmosphere as louder, more packed, and more media‑heavy than just a few...
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March 26, 2026
Women’s flag football has basketball players trading sneakers for cleats ahead of 2028 LA Games
A year ago, point guard O'Mariah Gordon was leading Florida State into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Not only is the 5-foot-5 grad student now at another school, but playing an entirely different sport. Shooting jumpers has been replaced by covering receivers and catching passes at Warner University...
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March 26, 2026
Olympic committee moves to require genetic testing for all female competitors ahead of Los Angeles Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it will require a 'one-time' genetic screening for all female athletes wishing to compete in the Olympic Games, beginning with the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The IOC has adopted a policy similar to that imposed by the UCI, which limits eligibility to compete...
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March 25, 2026
First-ever International Women’s Sports Film Festival coming to Portland
The first‑ever International Women’s Sports Film Festival (IWSFF) will debut in Portland, Oregon, from May 1–3, 2026, at the Judy Kafoury Center for Youth Arts. The IWSFF is the first global film festival dedicated entirely to stories about women and nonbinary athletes, featuring documentaries, narrative films, and shorts from around...
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March 25, 2026
2026 WNBA Expansion Draft is set on April 3rd
One of the first steps towards building the expansion teams is set. Originally slated for April 6th, the WNBA has scheduled the expansion draft for Friday, April 3rd. The 14th and 15th teams of the league, the Portland Fire and the Toronto Tempo, will have an opportunity to select one player...
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March 18, 2026
Every Woman’s Marathon to Bring $15M to New Orleans
New Orleans city leaders, tourism officials, and race organizers officially welcomed Team Milk’s Every Woman’s Marathon to the city on March 17, announcing at a press conference that the women-centered race will take place in New Orleans on February 28, 2027. Now entering its third year as a traveling event, the marathon...
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March 12, 2026
Nike Brings Back After Dark Tour Amid Women’s Running Boom
Nike has revived its After Dark Tour for the second year, hosting women-only nighttime 10K and half marathon races in seven cities worldwide to unite female runners and showcase performance gear. The event follows the 2025 tour's success, which drew over 50,000 participants across five continents, with one-third being first-time...
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March 11, 2026
Softball Legend Natasha Watley ‘Heartbroken’ 2028 Olympics Won’t Be in L.A.
You would think the return of softball to the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles would be a moment of celebration for two-time Olympic medalist and L.A. native Natasha Watley, one of the most decorated players in U.S. softball history. Instead, it turned to heartbreak. The LA28 Olympics mark the...
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March 10, 2026
Marshall sued over plans to drop women’s swimming and diving
More than a dozen members of the Marshall University women's swimming and diving team have filed a lawsuit over plans by the school to drop the sport. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in southern West Virginia, accuses Marshall of discriminating against current and potentially future female student-athletes...
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March 1, 2026
US Half Marathon Championship ends in chaos as lead runners guided in wrong direction
USA Track & Field has denied an appeal after its Half Marathon Championship in Atlanta ended in chaos. With less than two miles to go in the women’s race, Jess McClain had a significant lead over Ednah Kurgat and Emma Hurley when the guide vehicle took the trio off course....
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March 1, 2026
Women’s sports reach record NCAA participation as leadership roles keep rising
Women's participation in NCAA sports has reached a record high. So has women's influence in leadership across college athletics. During the 2024-25 academic year — the latest NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation data available — 242,341 student-athletes competed across NCAA women's championship and emerging sports, marking a 14% increase over the past...
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February 27, 2026
Flavor Flav to host Las Vegas event for winning US women’s Olympic ice hockey team
The rapper Flavor Flav will host a Las Vegas event in July to honour the US women’s ice hockey team’s gold medal at the Milano Cortina Olympics and celebrate other female Olympian and Paralympian achievement. The Hall of Fame rapper announced on X on Thursday that he will host a She Got...
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February 26, 2026
Top 6 women’s sports moments of 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina marked a defining chapter in the evolution of women’s sport. Across icy rinks, alpine slopes, halfpipes, and Nordic trails, female athletes delivered performances that were not only technically brilliant but culturally significant. This year’s Games reflected decades of progress toward gender equity in winter...
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February 24, 2026
WNBA targets March 10 as deadline for new CBA—or 2026 season will be delayed
On Monday, the WNBA informed the WNBPA and teams that a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) must be agreed to by March 10 to avoid a delayed start to the 2026 WNBA season, according to ESPN’s Alexa Philippou. Philippou writes, “It is thought to be the first deadline of sorts the...
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February 24, 2026
Whoopi Goldberg’s All Women’s Sports Network Debuts Live Boxing
All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN) announces the debut of women’s professional boxing on its fast-growing television platform in partnership with Hall of Fame legend Manny Pacquiao’s promotion, live on Sat., Feb. 28, beginning at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT from Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. The two-hour “Queen of the...
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February 23, 2026
Lindsey Vonn says surgery saved her from amputation
Lindsey Vonn narrowly avoided having her leg amputated after her devastating crash in the women's downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the American skier shared in a social media post Monday. Vonn has undergone five surgeries since suffering a complex left tibia fracture after clipping a gate and sailing off...
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February 23, 2026
U.S. women’s hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to the State of the Union
The U.S. women's Olympic hockey team said it is declining President Donald Trump's invitation to attend his State of the Union address, a day after the president jokingly told the U.S. men's hockey team that he would be impeached if he didn't also invite the women's team. "We are sincerely grateful for...
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February 22, 2026
Badwater 135 champion lowers women’s 100-mile world record
Ashley Paulson, a former pro triathlete turned ultrarunner, has built a remarkable career in the sport over recent years, winning and capturing PBs in some of the world’s toughest races. This weekend, she added a world record to her running resume. On Friday at the Jackpot 100 Mile in Henderson,...
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February 19, 2026
Megan Keller’s golden goal at the Olympics for the US explained, from the pass to the move
Taylor Heise was tired, and she knew Megan Keller could skate fast. The end result was the golden goal in overtime that gave the U.S. an emotional victory over Canada in the women's hockey final at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Thursday night. Keller's 3-on-3 goal 4:07 into overtime was...
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February 18, 2026
At the Olympics and beyond, women’s sports media outlets are writing their own playbooks
Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women’s sports back in the 1990s. “It was absolutely infuriating to me,” said Brennan, a best-selling author who served as the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media. Now?...
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