2016 Rio Olympics: Serena, Venus Williams headline U.S. tennis team selections
Olympic Flashback: Kerri Strug 1996
In this week’s Olympic Flashback, GladiatHers.com celebrates the 20 year anniversary of one of the most memorable endings to the team gymnastics competition ever. In 1996 in Atlanta, GA, the US Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team set out to do something that no American women’s team had ever done … [Read more...]
WNT: Going For Nothing Less Than Gold
Here we have #SquadGoals, also known as the U.S. Olympic Women’s Soccer Team. They’ll be going for gold in Rio…make sure you watch. The team (listed below) will be lead by Coach Jill Ellis. GOALKEEPERS (2): Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars), Hope Solo (Seattle Reign FC) DEFENDERS (6): Whitney … [Read more...]
U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team revealed
Hoopism: "If I ruled the world," I would change the Olympic roster”
The USA track and field Olympic trials just wrapped up yesterday. The gymnastics trials are still ongoing. But the Olympic women's basketball roster was decided two and a half months ago. Why so early? Especially since WNBA season is about to begin, and athletes could complete their "tryout" by … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 7
The penultimate day of the 2016 US Olympic Team Trials opened with the heptathlon. The women contested four of the seven events today: 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, and 200 meters. The remaining events will be contested Sunday (long jump, javelin, and 800 meters.) In the 100 hurdles, … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 6
The women’s pole vault preliminaries opened the meet up today. “Around 12” from the two flights would advance to the final. Heavy rain began to fall midway through qualifying and the event was suspended for some time. Jenn Suhr waited until the bar was at 14-9 before taking a go. She cleared the … [Read more...]
USATF Olympic Team Trials - Day 5
After a two day break in track events, things resumed in earnest at the oval office. Events for the women were the shot put (qualifying), javelin (qualifying), 5,000 (2 heats, semi-final), 100 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), 400 hurdles (5 heats, qualifying), shot put (final), 1500 (3 heats, … [Read more...]
Olympic Flashback: Flo-Jo in 1988
Who doesn’t love the Olympics? Well we certainly do. In honor of our love for the Olympics and the great GladiatHers who participate in them, from now until the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, GladiatHers.com will be celebrating great past Olympic performances with Flashback … [Read more...]