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July 23, 2024
National Women’s Soccer League delivers record Olympic turnout
A record number of National Women's Soccer League players are suiting up for Olympic competitions. The NWSL reports it is fielding more players in the Games than any other league in the world. That's 56 players representing 11 countries, including the United States. The U.S. Women's National Team leads all countries, with...
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July 23, 2024
Woman wins Wine Country half marathon for first time
A woman won the Wine Country Half Marathon in Sonoma on Sunday for the first time in the event's 20-year history, organizers said. It was a great day for girl power, with veteran runner Liza Reichert winning in one hour, 19 minutes and 28 seconds in the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma...
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July 23, 2024
Olympics-Women set to grab the spotlight for Team USA in Paris
American women from Simone Biles to Katie Ledecky and Sha’Carri Richardson will dominate the spotlight in Paris as the explosion in popularity of women’s sports in the United States makes its way to the Olympic stage, experts said. Those athletes are among the women featured prominently in ads for the...
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July 22, 2024
Ironman Announces New Pregnancy and Parenthood Policy for Age-Groupers
Today Ironman changed a policy would now allow athletes entry to the same event for up to two years if a triathlete registered for one of their races and then became pregnant—a response, in part, to an article published by Triathlete in June, Ironman said. The new policy touches more than simply a race registration...
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July 18, 2024
Just Women’s Sports launching shows around Olympic coverage
Just Women’s Sports is launching three digital shows to amplify the multimedia platform’s coverage of the Paris Olympic Games. USWNT and Gotham star Kelley O’Hara will host a new in-studio show “The Gold Standard” with four-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time WNBA champion Lisa Leslie. JWS is also bringing back...
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July 15, 2024
16-Year-Old Marathon Swimmer Maya Merhige Successfully Swims the English Channel and Raises More than $100,000 to Fight Cancer
Maya Merhige, a 16-year-old marathon swimmer, has just successfully conquered the English Channel (20.5 miles or 33 km), making her one of the youngest swimmers in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, which includes the English Channel, Catalina Channel and Manhattan 20 Bridges swims. Maya swam the English Channel...
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July 11, 2024
US women’s basketball team looks to continue Olympic dominance, seeking 8th straight gold in Paris
The U.S. women's basketball team is on a historic run, winning seven straight Olympic gold medals. While no one has come close to ending that streak, the rest of the world is getting better. The Americans, who haven't lost an Olympic contest since 1992, won by an average of 16...
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July 3, 2024
Women’s Sportswear: The Big Winner of Paris 2024 Olympics?
In recent years, women’s professional sports fandom and women’s participation in athletics have been on the rise, leading to opportunities for sportswear brands to appeal to women’s sports fans and female athletes alike through sponsorships, product launches and event activations. The Women’s Tennis Association, a global competition, saw average attendance in 2023...
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July 3, 2024
What Does the Women’s Race at Unbound Mean for Other Gravel Race Organizers?
At Unbound this year, race organizers started the elite women’s field 25 minutes ahead of the amateurs at the bequest of the athletes. Amateur men never caught the lead women, proving that a staggered start time might be the key to a standalone women’s gravel race. While most race organizers...
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June 27, 2024
Ally Tees Up A Fortnite Golf Experience To Promote Its Sponsorship Of Women’s Sports
Ally’s newest Fortnite game, “Tee Time Speedrun,” launched last week to promote its sponsorship of the United States Golf Association (USGA). Ally also contributed to the $12 million in prizes awarded at this year’s LPGA US Women’s Open, the largest ever purse for a women’s golf tournament. The Women’s Open...
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June 21, 2024
Las Vegas Aces become the first WNBA team to sell out every home game in a season
The Las Vegas Aces became the first WNBA team to sell out every home game in a season when the final tickets were claimed Thursday for a Sept. 3 matchup against Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky. That game is one of two scheduled for T-Mobile Arena, which is bigger than the Aces' usual home venue. The...
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June 20, 2024
Women’s PGA Championship Tees Off With a Big Investment, Record Purse
The third women’s golf major championship of the year is underway, with significant new financial investment in LPGA players and fans, as the trend of spending more money on women’s sports in general continues. This year’s purse at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which teed off Thursday morning at Sahalee...
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June 13, 2024
Why Alexis Ohanian Thinks Women’s Track Is Ripe for Heavy Investment
Alexis Ohanian, the wealthy Reddit cofounder, serial sports investor, and Serena Williams’s husband, went through the experience recently with track and field. In an interview with Front Office Sports, Ohanian said he spent the past few years going deep into track’s almost quaint culture of posting wars and social media accounts. “There’s...
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June 12, 2024
6 Triathlons With Amazing Pregnancy and Postpartum Race Deferral Policies
The process of getting a deferral or refund can be frustrating for multisport moms-to-be. These races are changing that by offering generous pregnancy and postpartum policies for age-group triathletes. Triathlete
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June 10, 2024
The 2025 Tour de France Femmes expands to nine stages
The 2025 Tour de France Femmes will run for nine stages in what will be its longest edition yet, race organizer ASO announced on Monday. While the men’s race will roll out from Lille in the Nord department, Brittany will host the women’s Grand Départ, with three stages set to...
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June 8, 2024
Chicago Red Stars break NWSL attendance record at Wrigley Field
The Chicago Red Stars set a single-game NWSL attendance record with an announced crowd of 35,038 fans watching the team's matchup with Bay FC at Wrigley Field on Saturday. The special one-off match at the the Chicago Cubs' historic home beat the previous mark of 34,130, set by Seattle Reign in the final regular-season home game for U.S. women's national team legend Megan Rapinoe...
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June 5, 2024
Finally, Women Mountain Bikers to Compete at Red Bull Rampage
Red Bull Rampage has come a long way since 2001, when a ragtag group of freeriders first gathered in the Utah desert to show off their best stunts. But when this world-class mountain biking event returns to Virgin, Utah, in October, it will feature something new in its 23-year history:...
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May 24, 2024
Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix 2024 Propelled Women in Motorsports to the Forefront
Notably, the 10 Formula 1 teams have all committed to the developmental series and each selected a woman from the ages 16 to 25 with karting and other junior racing experience to represent them. WWD
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May 24, 2024
Why women-only run clubs are dominating the scene
Amid 2024’s run-mania, with races frequently selling out across Canada, female-exclusive run clubs are gaining momentum. In honour of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we’re discussing how the sport has evolved, with women’s run clubs paving the way for female runners to feel seen, safe and empowered. Women’s running has been...
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May 23, 2024
Marathon Runner Deliberately Avoids Kids Running onto Course to Cheer Her On
One mom is demonstrating the importance of prioritizing yourself. In a now-viral TikTok video, which has amassed over 11.7 million views and 26 thousand comments, Luciana Grandi Lourenção is captured sprinting downhill through a marathon finish line. As the runner approaches her mark, leading the race, a man identified as her husband,...
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May 17, 2024
Grandmother makes history as first person to complete 17-hour swim through shark-infested waters
A grandmother became the first person in history to complete a treacherous 29.7-mile solo swim through freezing, shark-infested waters without a wetsuit. Amy Appelhans Gubser, 55, a paediatric nurse from Pacifica, California, completed the gruelling feat of endurance from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands in 17 hours. The route marks “the toughest marathon...
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May 7, 2024
After Her Six-Day Women’s World Record, Camille Herron Is Eyeing the Men’s
Camille Herron has to believe it is possible. An ultrarunner, Herron is no stranger to breaking records at long distances. Now she has another record in her sights: the men’s. SI
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May 2, 2024
The Women’s Sports Foundation Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Marks Milestone with Founder Billie Jean King in a Ceremonial Lighting of the Iconic Empire State Building
The Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with sports icon, social justice pioneer and WSF Founder, Billie Jean King leading a ceremonial lighting of the iconic Empire State Building in WSF colors. WSF is commemorating 50 Years of Changing the Game throughout 2024. Today marks the official 50 years-to-the-date when King founded WSF with...
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April 23, 2024
Alexis Ohanian invests in women’s track with new invitational
A new invitational for the world's top sprinters will feature the largest purse ever for a women's-only track event. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband to Serena Williams, told ESPN on Tuesday that his venture capital firm Seven Seven Six is investing in women's track with the 776 Invitational. The...
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April 17, 2024
Women’s Golf Has Five—Not Four—Majors, and That’s a Good Thing
The Chevron Championship, the first women’s major of the year, begins Thursday. The best golfers in the women’s game are gathering just outside Houston for the Chevron Championship, which is the first of the sport’s five annual major championships. Yes, five, not the four that the men’s game plays. FOS
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