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Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
posted on May 9, 2010 at 12:54pm
Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “pos...more
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Interview with Dara Torres
posted on May 5, 2010 at 9:26pm
(Photo credit: Andrea Mead Cross)Dara Torres is busy promoting her new book Gold Medal Fitness, which was just released this week, but she took the time to answer our interview questions in honor of Mother's Day. Torres has won nine Olympic medals, four ...more
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Iran’s girls’ soccer team back in Youth Olympics
posted on May 5, 2010 at 1:31pm
With this summer’s inaugural Youth Olympics fast approaching, there was one group of young women who were facing exclusion. That is until this week when FIFA said they will allow the Iranian girls soccer team to compete at the Games as long as their pl...more
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Canadian skater Rochette talks about her mother
posted on April 26, 2010 at 7:03pm
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
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Interview with Lindsey Vonn on set of Under Armour shoot
posted on April 23, 2010 at 1:58pm
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
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Professional Sports vs. Olympic Sports
posted on March 22, 2010 at 6:09pm
In the world of sports, there is always something happening. With so many sports to choose from, fans certainly have a variety of events to watch each week. For example, just look at the overlap in terms of some of America’s major sports le...more
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Anna Nichols makes history
posted on March 19, 2010 at 5:58pm
The U.S.'s Anna Nichols became the first athlete to win gold at both the summer and winter Paralympics yesterday, taking top honors in the alpine skiing sitting downhill. This was Nichols' second gold of these games, and she also carried home a gold med...more
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Networks can't be bothered to air Paralympics
posted on March 16, 2010 at 5:24pm
Thanks to stellar human being and new IOC member Angela Ruggiero for reminding the country that yes, there are still elite athletes competing in Vancouver. Needless to say, NBC couldn't spare the dime to cover those elite athletes, but kicked it over to...more
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Olympic Recap: Opening Ceremonies, Yahoo, Hockey and Fun!
posted on March 6, 2010 at 2:54pm
Wow, there were two big differences with this Olympics compared to any other I have ever been to. First and the most obvious is that because I was not competing, I could take in every aspect the Olympic Games had to offer. I could relax, did not have to...more
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Reader XC ski question answered: Why change skis in the 50k race?
posted on March 5, 2010 at 5:43pm
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
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Memorable moments from female athletes at the Winter Olympics
posted on March 3, 2010 at 3:32pm
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
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Smile and wave
posted on March 3, 2010 at 1:24pm
People love visiting the Olympic Training Center. I guess I kind of get it…but not totally. It’s still just a bunch of training fields grouped together for different sports and they slap the Olympic rings on it and all of the sudden it seems really ...more
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Olympic Ads: The Good, The Bad, And Versus
posted on March 3, 2010 at 1:17pm
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
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After Vancouver, the baton is handed to Russia
posted on March 2, 2010 at 7:43pm
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
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Looking forward to 2014 in Sochi
posted on March 2, 2010 at 1:55pm
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
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Winter Olympics Gay Postscript
posted on March 2, 2010 at 1:53pm
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
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Bullying, gender expression, sexuality and Johnny Weir
posted on March 2, 2010 at 7:10am
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
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NBC: The Last Straw
posted on March 1, 2010 at 5:49pm
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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Post mort for IOC: Why are the Olympics so sexist?!?
posted on March 1, 2010 at 5:47pm
By Laura Pappano
The closing ceremonies in Vancouver are finished, so let’s reflect: Why does a tremendous sport festival whose aim is to foster political goodwill remain so darned sexist?
Events for women are typically lesser or shorter (or in the ca...more
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Women’s Ice Hockey flashbacks of Olympic softball
posted on March 1, 2010 at 7:15am
As the Winter Olympic Games come to a close, I reflect on a story that stood out to me more than many others. Although I will be recapping later about all the other fun and crazy stories of our family’s trip to Vancouver and Whistler, I want to separate...more
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On loving hockey and Canada Gold
posted on March 1, 2010 at 7:15am
While my home team lost the goal medal in the men’s ice hockey final at the Vancouver Olympics, the game did serve one purpose.
It reminded me – along with millions of other people watching – why I love hockey.
You know how people say they love th...more
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