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IOC member praises women’s ski jumping event in Oslo; positive sign for Sochi 2014
by anngaff
posted February 27, 2011 at 6:23pm

OSLO, Norway (Feb. 26, via release) – A little bit of sunshine peeked through an otherwise windy, foggy and challenging day Friday after women ski jumpers took to the Midtstubakken hill at the World Championships in Oslo — ready to prove to th...more

Women’s soccer to kick off London 2012 schedule
by Pretty Tough
posted February 26, 2011 at 6:38pm

The schedule of events for the 2012 Olympic Games was recently published and the race for tickets begins on 15 March, marking 500 days to go before the opening ceremony. A women’s soccer match in Wales will kick off the 2012 Olympics program a full tw...more

STRONG! A movie about Olympic Weightlifter Cheryl Haworth
by Pretty Strong
posted February 22, 2011 at 9:19am

A formidable figure, standing at 5'8" and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. STRONG! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unu...more

Ski jumpers Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome ready to pick the World Championships up and drop it on its head
by anngaff
posted February 20, 2011 at 12:23pm

2009 World Champ Lindsey Van, by Getty Images The FIS Nordic Ski World Championships start Wednesday in Oslo. For only the second time, women’s ski jumping will be included in the program - as an individual event only. This is currently the largest s...more

ONE DAY ONLY: Rise: Documentary of the 1961 plane crash that killed U.S. Figure Skating team
by Pretty Tough
posted February 17, 2011 at 2:48pm

Who: U.S. Figure Skating stars Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano and Michelle Kwan honoring the team of U.S. and World champion skaters, coaches and others who died in a plane crash fifty years ago. What: A star-studded event ...more

Superfan Daily: Olympic Sprint Brouhaha
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted February 15, 2011 at 2:34pm

The big overnight news is in relation to just-released London Olympic scheduling and ticket prices. In the track and field world, it's not the prices (up to $1168 for prime seats for the sessions which includes the men's 100 meters final). Rather, it...more

On this day in history: Women’s Sportlight
by Pretty Tough
posted February 10, 2011 at 1:48pm

Feb. 10 1968 — Peggy Fleming wins the women’s Olympic figure skating gold medal in Grenoble, France. 1992 — Bonnie Blair becomes the first woman to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal in 500-meter speed skating and the first American woman i...more

I love curling
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 2, 2011 at 3:04pm

I’ve now written 77 posts about the Super Bowl somewhere or another, and I just want them to play now. Right now. In the street, if necessary, like when Tommy Gunn and Rocky did it in Rocky 5, the third best Rocky movie. Fourth best maybe. It’s hard t...more

Boxing after 2700 years
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted January 21, 2011 at 1:09am

Two months to go before the tickets for the London Olympics 2012 go on sale. No prizes for guessing that the boxing is high on my list of things to see, it is very exciting that women are finally being allow to compete.Anyone watching the amateur world ch...more

An athlete's life: Head help
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted January 20, 2011 at 6:37pm

There are a lot of resources available to athletes that train at the Olympic Training Center. And because they come at no cost to us, it makes them that much more valuable. One of the greatest, and possibly most overlooked resource, is our very own spor...more

The sweet life of Natalie Coughlin [podcast]
by Pretty Tough
posted January 20, 2011 at 1:30am

I had the pleasure of speaking with world-renowned gold medalist Natalie Coughlin a couple days ago. Natalie is an amazing swimmer - the most decorated female athlete of both the 2008 Beijing and 2004 Athens Games – who is looking to add to her me...more

Alicia Sacramone has something to prove
by Pretty Tough
posted January 18, 2011 at 7:40pm

Everyone loves a good comeback story. Gymnast Alicia Sacramone is living one. As a young stand-out, Sacramone anticipated making her Olympic debut at the 2004 Athens games. However she performed poorly at Nationals that year and nearly quit the sport. ...more

Softballers defect
by After Atalanta
posted January 13, 2011 at 3:12pm

Word came out yesterday that the biggest names in women's softball will not be playing for the US National Team this year. They have all decided to play full time for the National Pro Fastpitch, which is the professional league in the US. Jessica Mendoza'...more

Aimee Mullins - Paralympian Sprinter - on TED
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted January 13, 2011 at 10:53am

Browsing through the TED-archives (procrastinating?) I came across this video of American sprinter Aimee Mullins.If you haven't heard of her, think paralympian, sprinter, holder of the Foreign Affairs Internship at Georgetown University, model, actress, c...more

Superfan Daily: Exhibit on '36 Olympics and Jesse Owens
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 5, 2011 at 8:49pm

It recently came to my attention that the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage now has a special program titled “The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936”, a traveling exhibit of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It seeks to explain how the Olympic Games ...more

Canada's Second Favourite Hockey : Field Hockey
by alilee05
posted January 3, 2011 at 9:54am

With the title "the first field hockey sports blogger for WTS," I feel the necessity to update everyone on field hockey. Since the sport is not as well-known in Canada, I can only assume it is also not as popular in the USA. So, we're going to touch basis...more

Rio 2016 launches Olympic logo
by HoopFeed.com
posted January 2, 2011 at 2:45pm

In a ceremony on Copacabana beach, the Rio 2016 committee launched the logo for the Summer Olympics that will be hosted in Brazil in six years. ...more

Should Women’s Hockey Be An Olympic Sport?
by The First Line
posted December 31, 2010 at 3:47pm

Got your attention there, didn’t I? The debate has been re-ignited by some of the schnidings being handed out by Canada at the men’s World Junior Championship this week. Many fans of the women’s game are pointing out, quite reasonably, that if s...more

Women who highlighted my 2010
by alilee05
posted December 29, 2010 at 11:46pm

Please add your comments at the bottom of this post or else re-tweet this page with the hash tags: #WomenTalkSports Thanks for your support on my first blog post. Here are my favourites in no particular order: Luciana Aymar Known as “the magi...more

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