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Lindsey Van: "I get mad because a little girl like you couldn't go out and ski jump with the boys"
by anngaff
posted November 15, 2010 at 5:27pm

The scene: Bill Kerig, director of Ready to Fly, sits down to interview World Ski Jumping Champion Lindsey Van in order to promote fundraising for the documentary he is producing. His young daughter Grace comes in and asks what they're doing. Grace: "Can...more

Sportswriting, libraries and possibilities
by Byline to Finish Line
posted November 13, 2010 at 1:11pm

When asked what my favorite sport is, often my response is college basketball. That’s mostly out of sportswriter habit. It’s the genre I cover most often, the game I know most intimately and the place where, as a journalist, I’m most comfortable. B...more

Review: Apolo Ohno and Zero Regrets
by Byline to Finish Line
posted November 9, 2010 at 9:16pm

“Do you know him from dancing or from skating?” the gentleman asked as Sue and I entered the book store on a cold Saturday night. “Skating,” we replied in unison. That promptly put a pamphlet in our hand from the Buffalo Speedskating Club. (And ...more

Glamour’s Women of the Year: Lindsey Vonn, Mia Hamm & Lisa Leslie
by Pretty Tough
posted November 4, 2010 at 11:28am

Strength and Beauty: Lindsey Vonn, Mia Hamm and Lisa Leslie were among the many women honored at Glamour’s annual event. Soccer great Mia Hamm is among the game’s top scorers ever, male or female. Basketball star Lisa Leslie was the first woman t...more

Women's Ski Jumpers Feeling Optimistic about Inclusion in 2014 Olympics. Should they?
by anngaff
posted October 25, 2010 at 4:51pm

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that they will delay the final decision on whether to add several new events, including women's ski jumping, to the Olympic program for Sochi 2014. The IOC board has further announced that they ha...more

IOC Meeting: Because Mexico makes you think winter...
by After Atalanta
posted October 25, 2010 at 3:02pm

...the IOC is meeting in Acapulco for the next several days to consider, among other things, which sports it will add to winter games program starting in 2014 when the games will be in Sochi, Russia.One might think that with all the bad press the IOC rece...more

Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show #1: Special Guest Deedee Corradini, president of Women's Ski Jumping USA
by anngaff
posted October 17, 2010 at 4:29pm

Sunday afternoon, MarQ Piocos and l hosted the inaugural Women Talk Sports weekly radio show. Our special guest was Deedee Corradini, president of Women's Ski Jumping USA. Corradini has led an 8-year campaign to get women's ski jumping added to the Olymp...more

Inclusion, opportunity and other fun things
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 14, 2010 at 11:59am

It seems like a curious time to be a female athlete. In the world of basketball, we have a proposal to lower the rim. In the world of winter outdoor sports, we have women ski jumpers fighting for inclusion in the Olympic Games while the Nissan Freeride W...more

Dodging Blocks
by sfoxmaple
posted August 10, 2010 at 10:10pm

If you ever want to get anywhere on the football field, you’d better learn to follow your blockers. Defensively, if you want to make the stop, you have to shed that same wall of weight. Evade with speed or bulldoze with power; the goal is to avoid th...more

Canadian skater Rochette talks about her mother
by Pretty Tough
posted April 26, 2010 at 10:03pm

Just in time for Mother's Day comes this heart-filled piece of news: One of the most memorable, and inspirational, stories from the recent Winter Olympics involves Canadian figure skating Joannie Rochette who took to the ice in Vancouver only days after ...more

Interview with Lindsey Vonn on set of Under Armour shoot
by anngaff
posted April 23, 2010 at 4:58pm

I interviewed Lindsey Vonn on set of the Under Armour "Protect this House" shoot for Under Armour in Denver about how she powers through injuries and negativity, who she looks up to, whether women's ski jumping should be in the Olympics, and how having a ...more

Interview with Canadian Silver Medalist Curler Cheryl Bernard (Podcast)
by MarQFPR
posted April 8, 2010 at 6:30am

  A month ago I had the great opportunity to interview Olympic Silver Medalist Cheryl Bernard on my "Somewhere in Vegas" podcast. Bernard and her team, who captured the hearts of Americans and Canadians alike, were able to bring the sport of cu r...more

Are Females Interested in Supporting Women's Sports?
by MarieS
posted March 29, 2010 at 1:06pm

Yesterday I got sucked into a post on facebook. A friend of mine (who happens to hold a gold medal in soccer from the '96 Olympics), posted an article that was a response to an NPR article titled: UConn Women's Team Excels; Will America Notice?...more

Reader XC ski question answered: Why change skis in the 50k race?
by Fair Game News
posted March 5, 2010 at 8:43pm

An FGN reader asked a terrific question about why racers changed skis in the 50k race. Rosie Brennan, a member of the Dartmouth College XC ski team who spoke with FGN contributor Sarah Odell, offered this explanation: You do not have to change skis. In ...more

Memorable moments from female athletes at the Winter Olympics
by Pretty Tough
posted March 3, 2010 at 6:32pm

All in all, the Vancouver Olympics were a roller coaster of emotion; so anticipated and anxiety-driven, filled with milestones and achievements as well as heartbreak. In the span of two weeks, there were personal, poignant moments to cherish, along wi...more

Olympic Ads: The Good, The Bad, And Versus
by Women's Sports Blog
posted March 3, 2010 at 4:17pm

It was heartening to see three separate ads that showed little girls playing hockey as a normal, everyday activity. Its role as as a publicizer of the game and eventual goal for aspiring children is one of the strongest arguments for maintaining women's...more

After Vancouver, the baton is handed to Russia
by Pretty Tough
posted March 2, 2010 at 10:43pm

Do Svidanya (Goodbye) Vancouver. Do Vstretchi (See You) in Sochi. As the Vancouver Olympics come to a close, the focus turns to the other side of the globe and Russia’s first Winter Games which will take the Olympic movement to a new territory and a ...more

Looking forward to 2014 in Sochi
by Womenstake
posted March 2, 2010 at 4:55pm

by Nicole Marschean, Intern,National Women's Law Center As I watched the U.S.A. Men’s Hockey team step off the podium after receiving their silver medals, I couldn’t distinguish if I was more upset by the team’s thrilling overtime loss or by the ab...more

Winter Olympics Gay Postscript
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 2, 2010 at 4:53pm

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are over and I know I will be getting a lot more sleep now. I stayed up way past my bedtime several nights to watch the action during the past two weeks. Of the 4-5 publicly out lesbian athletes (there were no openly gay, bi...more

Bullying, gender expression, sexuality and Johnny Weir
by After Atalanta
posted March 2, 2010 at 10:10am

I've been thinking a lot about bullying lately. I live in an area under intense scrutiny for a recent bullying event that lead to a suicide in a local school. It is the second such incident in about a year in my area. The film Straightlaced about teens wh...more

NBC: The Last Straw
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 1, 2010 at 8:49pm

I recently wrote about my dissatisfaction with NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I really and truly thought that I had gotten it out of my system. Oh, how wrong I was. So here I sit on the last morning of the games wondering...more

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