EVENT NEWS
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September 14, 2022
London Marathon follows Boston in adding non-binary category
Five of the six largest marathons in the world will soon allow runners to compete without registering as men or women. The London Marathon changed its policy on Wednesday. Inside The Games
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September 13, 2022
WNBA Finals Draws 550K Viewers Opposite First NFL Sunday
Game 1 of the WNBA Finals had to go up against the first Sunday of the NFL regular season, but still drew an impressive audience. The Las Vegas Aces’ 67-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun broadcast on ABC averaged 550,000 viewers, the network announced ahead of Tuesday’s Game 2. Sunday’s...
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September 12, 2022
Record Broken: One of the Hardest FKTs in the US
After 2 years, Sabrina Stanley’s women’s supported FKT on Nolan’s 14 is no more. Andrea Sansone began a record attempt — running south to north — in the early hours of the morning on Sept. 10 and finished less than 2 days later, on the morning of Monday, Sept. 12....
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September 7, 2022
U.K. Doubles Women’s Sports Viewership From 2021
In the U.K., 36.1 million people watched women’s sports between January and July of this year — more than double the 17.5 million people that watched during the same period in 2021, according to the Women’s Sport Trust. Not only were more people watching, but each individual’s average viewing time...
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September 6, 2022
Serena’s Swan Song – ESPN’s Most-Watched Tennis Telecast on Record
Friday’s US Open Third Round match on ESPN – apparently the last in the remarkable career of Serena Williams, as she lost to Ajla Tomljanovich of Australia 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 – is the most-watched tennis telecast on record in ESPN’s 43-year history. An average of 4.6 million viewers (P2+) tuned...
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September 1, 2022
Serena Williams’ Last Dance Continues To Spark Big TV Numbers
Serena Williams’ last dance at the U.S. Open produced monster TV numbers for ESPN. The retiring Williams’ second-round victory over Anett Kontaveit Wednesday night averaged 2.3 million viewers in the “PrimeTime at the US Open” window from 7 pm to 12:13 am ET. That was up 289% from ESPN’s comparable primetime...
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August 31, 2022
Women’s Euro 2022 Is Most-Watched Ever
A month after its Wembley Stadium finale, the Women’s Euro 2022 tournament keeps setting records. UEFA revealed on Wednesday that across TV, out-of-home viewing, and streaming, the 16-team tournament had a projected global cumulative live viewership of 365 million — the most-watched women’s Euro ever. The figure is more than double 2017’s viewership of 178 million...
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August 31, 2022
Serena Williams’ U.S. Open Match Averages 2.7M Viewers
Serena Williams’ farewell tour during the U.S. Open is generating big TV ratings for ESPN. The Worldwide Leader’s coverage of Williams’ straight-sets victory over Danka Kovinic on Monday night averaged 2.7 million viewers — nearly four times the viewership ESPN earned in the comparable primetime window in 2021. FOS
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August 29, 2022
Leah Kirchmann announces retirement following road world championships
After a 12-year career, the Canadian rider will make her last appearance in Team DSM colors at the Simac Ladies Tour this week before competing at the world championships in Australia next month. VeloNews
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August 29, 2022
Mountain biker Haley Batten reaches World Championship podium twice in Les Gets
Haley Batten was aiming for a world championship podium finish this week in Les Gets, France. She captured two. Four days after helping the U.S. to a third-place finish in the cross-country team relay at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Batten finished third Sunday in the elite women’s cross-country...
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August 26, 2022
The NCAA Plans to Fund and Host a Women’s NIT
The NCAA’s Division I women’s basketball committee is planning to host a tournament similar to the men’s National Invitational Tournament (NIT) — a secondary event to March Madness, according to minutes of an August NCAA meeting that Front Office Sports reviewed. The minutes confirm an Athlon Sports/D1 Ticker report. FOS
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August 23, 2022
San Diego Wave to break NWSL single-game attendance record, Alex Morgan reveals
The San Diego Wave has sold in excess of 27,000 tickets for its Sept. 17 match against Angel City FC, enough to break the National Women's Soccer League's all-time attendance record for a standalone game. The Wave and U.S. international forward Alex Morgan revealed the attendance numbers in an exclusive...
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August 22, 2022
Tickets to see Serena Williams in her last U.S. Open are selling fast
Tickets for the opening night and the two following nights virtually sold old, and resale prices are surging, The tennis superstar, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, announced earlier this month her intention to retire at age 41 after losing in the first round of the tournament this year to Harmony Tan, the...
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August 22, 2022
A New All-Women’s Ski Contest Is Coming this Winter
To kick off the next winter season, pro skiers Lexi duPont and Hedvig Wessel, alongside snowboarders Fanny Avril and Leanne Pelosi, are launching a new women’s-only ski event: Sister Summit. DuPont’s time digging at Redbull Formation, a progression session in southern Utah for female freeride mountain bikers, inspired the new...
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August 17, 2022
Madaleine Sorkin becomes the first woman to free climb Dunn-Westbay Direct (5.14-)
On August 10, Madaleine Sorkin, 40, enjoyed a no-falls day on the Dunn-Westbay Direct (IV 5.14-, 4 pitches, 1,000') on the Diamond of Longs Peak (Neniisotoyou'u, 14,255') in Rocky Mountain National Park. This makes her the first woman and fifth person overall to free climb the route on lead. The crux...
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August 17, 2022
WNBA posts its highest viewership on ESPN in 16 years
The 2022 WNBA season finished as the league’s most-watched regular season on ESPN in 16 years, and its most-watched season overall in 14 years. The WNBA averaged 372,000 viewers across 25 WNBA games on ESPN networks, a 19 percent increase over last season and the highest average viewership since 2008....
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August 11, 2022
After 16-year hiatus, women’s championship tour returns to Teahupo’o
For the first time in 16 years, the best female surfers are set to compete at Teahupo’o. Women previously competed at Teahupo’o, the infamous reef break in Tahiti whose name roughly translates to “wall of skulls,” but after 2006, surfing’s international federation stopped holding women’s contests at Teahupo’o, citing safety...
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August 9, 2022
Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words
I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word...
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August 8, 2022
Sue Bird’s Final Regular-Season Home Game Sets Attendance Records
WNBA legend Sue Bird took the hardwood for her final regular-season home game on Sunday evening — to a historic crowd. About 18,100 fans packed into Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle to celebrate Bird’s illustrious career, the team announced. FOS
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August 7, 2022
Surfing the biggest growth sport among women in Australia
Surfing was one of the fastest-growing activities during the pandemic, alongside basketball and soccer, with 196,000 people aged 15 or older picking it up in 2020 or last year, according to the latest data from the Australian Sports Commission. AFR
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August 3, 2022
Tour De France Femmes Proves TV Hit As Viewing Figures Released
The eight stages captured, on average, a quarter of the French television audience, a total of 2.25 million viewers across the channels France 2 and France 3 and a total of 20 million people watching across the entire race. The peak was 5.1 million viewers, a 45.6% audience share, for...
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August 1, 2022
England Lionesses Women’s Euro Victory Leads to Record 17.6 Million Viewership for BBC
The England Lionesses’ historic win in the Women’s Euro 2022 soccer championship has proved to be a viewership bonanza for the BBC. England beat eight-time champions Germany at London’s Wembley stadium in the final on Sunday evening, with Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly scoring for the victors. The game was played in front of a...
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August 1, 2022
England’s Lionesses roar to victory in Euro 2022: how women’s football beat the sceptics
England’s women have won the European football championship, bringing a major international trophy home for the first time since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966, more than a lifetime ago for many of the fans who crowded into Wembley Stadium for the match. They beat Germany, English...
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July 31, 2022
Women sweep the podium at Near Death Marathon
The three women sped to the finish line at the world-renowned Canadian Death Race (CDR) hosted by Sinister Sports, for a remarkable first all-women top-three finish for the 22nd running of the CDR event. Edmonton’s Priscilla Forgie led the pack with a blistering time of 4:06:21, followed by Jenny Quilty of...
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July 27, 2022
Women’s gold-medal game set as soccer finale for 2024 Olympics
The women’s gold-medal match will serve as the finale of the Olympic soccer tournament at the Summer Games in 2024. The Paris Olympics will mark the first time the soccer competition will conclude with the women’s final instead of the men’s, FIFA revealed Wednesday when it announced the full soccer tournament...