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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...
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July 27, 2022
All-female rowing team breaks world record with 2,400-mile trek from California to Hawaii
After 34 days and more than 2,400 nautical miles, four female rowers made history on Tuesday morning by wrapping up their journey from California to Hawaii in record time. CBS Sports
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July 22, 2022
Tour de France Femmes Is a Women’s Sports Triumph Long in the Making
Up against the sport’s long, male-dominated history and its masculinity-driven marquee event, the women of cycling secured the first official women’s Tour de France stage race in 33 years. SI
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July 21, 2022
London Marathon changes policy for pregnant and postpartum participants
London Marathon Events has made immediate policy changes to make the event more inclusive. Participants who are pregnant or postpartum – including general entry participants and participants with a Good For Age or Championship place in the 2022 TCS London Marathon on Sunday 2 October – will now have the opportunity to...
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July 20, 2022
Here’s What You Need to Know About the Inaugural Tour de France Femmes
On Sunday, for the first time in a very long time, there will be two pelotons in Paris racing the Tour de France. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift begins on July 24 and runs for eight days across northeast France. The race features 144 women from 24 teams, and...
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July 15, 2022
Here’s What it Feels Like to Run 100 Miles at the Western States
The Western States 100-mile race has a cool history, a gorgeous route, and the world’s best masochists. This short film shows everything that goes into the race for three women who run in the rarefied air of people who can not only last the entire 100 miles, but who can...
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July 15, 2022
Women’s Euros breaks attendance record with 15 games to go
The Women's European Championship has broken the competiton's attendance record before the knockout stages, figures have shown. The 2017 Euros in the Netherlands had a total crowd figure of 240,055. The 8,173 attendance figure at France's 2-1 victory over Belgium on Thursday took the total for this year's competition to...
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July 6, 2022
British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes to compete at all levels
Triathlon has become the first sport in the UK to ban transgender athletes from racing in the female category at elite and grassroots level after deciding that “fairness of competition is paramount”. Under British Triathlon’s new policy, which kicks in on 1 January 2023, transgender athletes over the age of...
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July 5, 2022
Colorado runner Allie McLaughlin shatters women’s record at Mount Marathon
The world champion mountain runner from Colorado Springs, Colorado, blew past the rest of the field Monday, breaking the Mount Marathon women’s record by 39 seconds. McLaughlin’s time of 47 minutes, nine seconds was also more than five minutes faster than her closest competitors. ADN
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June 29, 2022
Gravel Worlds reaches goal of 1,000 women participants
On Wednesday, the Pirate Cycling League, hosts of Garmin Gravel Worlds, announced that the event had reached a milestone: 1,000 women have signed up to race across the event’s five distances. The number corresponds to nearly 40 percent of the event’s total registrants. Velo News
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June 28, 2022
Tour de France Femmes gets NTT-powered innovations as part of technology deal
NTT has served as the technology partner of the men’s event for the past eight years and now, it will offer its services to the women’s edition of the marquee cycling race. NTT will provide live rider tracking throughout the event via the Tour de France Femmes’ ‘race centre’ platform,...
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June 28, 2022
Japanese women’s road race indefinitely postponed over argument about team vehicles
The women’s road race at the Japanese national championships was indefinitely postponed due to an argument over whether team vehicles should be allowed in the race convoy. The event was due to take place at the Hiroshima Central Forest Park last Saturday, but officials decided not to hold it after...
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June 27, 2022
Woman Vies for Second-Ever Ski Descent of K2
An American skier and climber aims to become the second person to ski down K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. She’ll do it during K2’s busiest season on record. Gear Junkie
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June 23, 2022
As LIV Golf dominates the news, LPGA players admit almost ‘entire tour’ might consider similar jump
Money is the talk of the game right now. As a field of 156 women celebrate the second-biggest purse in tour history this week, PGA Tour stars are leaving their already lucrative tour for mind-blowing amounts of guaranteed cash on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf. The never-ending Saudi news cycle already...
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June 23, 2022
Women’s PGA Championship raises prize purse to US$9m for 2022
The organisers of the Women’s PGA Championship have announced that the prize money for the golf major will rise to US$9 million for 2022, doubling the purse from last year. The latest prize pot marks a 300 per cent increase from what the tournament offered in 2014, when the total pool was...
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