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Youth Olympic flame lit in Singapore
by Pretty Tough
posted August 15, 2010 at 5:22pm
A towering flame was lit in the heart of Singapore on Saturday, signaling the start of the inaugural Youth Olympics.
IOC President Jacque Rogge said the event would inspire young people around the world to take up sport but also teach them the importanc...more
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Pictures of Chinese gymnasts tells story
by One Sport Voice
posted August 15, 2010 at 5:06pm
A colleague of mine sent a link to the msnbc.com photoblog which included the picture you young Chinese gymnasts in training you see here.
If you remember China was under storm after the 2008 Beijing Olympics when the age of some of their female gymnast...more
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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
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Amanda Beard in the news
by Athletic Women Blog
posted August 4, 2010 at 5:41pm
Seven-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard returns to competitive swimming this week, and along with that naturally comes a return to celebrity life, in not entirely predictable ways, as it turns out.
For instance, the New York Times recently ran a profile...more
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Amanda Beard's new life
by After Atalanta
posted August 2, 2010 at 2:15pm
The New York Times published an article this weekend about American swimmer Amanda Beard and the new stage of her life. She became a mother about a year ago and is working on a comeback in competitive swimming (she'll be competing in nationals this week; ...more
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Women's MMA - August - a Month of Champions
by MarQFPR
posted August 2, 2010 at 3:13am
Welcome to the Fightergirls column on Women Talk Sports brought to you by your source for women’s mma gear and clothing Fightergirls.com. Here is the news for this week.
Top 125 pounder Carina Damm
In breaking news, #2 ranked 125 p...more
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Women's MMA - August - a Month of Champions
by MarQFPR
posted August 2, 2010 at 3:11am
Welcome to the Fightergirls column on Women Talk Sports brought to you by your source for women’s mma gear and clothing Fightergirls.com. Here is the news for this week.
Top 125 pounder Carina Damm
In breaking news, #2 ranked 125 p...more
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The magic of Lake Placid
by Byline to Finish Line
posted July 22, 2010 at 1:21pm
The Olympic theme song — the one played by NBC to signify its coverage that sounds like a dignified march — kept playing over and over in my head. Images of my favorite Olympic moments played like a slideshow and I was lost in a world of awe.
Such wa...more
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British women training for Olympic boxing ring
by The Glowing Edge
posted July 16, 2010 at 6:48pm
One of the things I love about this Wall Street Journal video is not just that the WSJ is spotlighting a few of the thousands of young women whose dreams of boxing in the Olympics are now a real possiblity, but also that they show a more balanced view o...more
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Disabled Triathlon messes with rules
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 15, 2010 at 6:51pm
Frederick Dreier of the Times reports that the New York City Triathletes is changing its rules in order to require that all blind triathletes who wish to qualify for the world championships to race in the same category. This means that those with partia...more
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As Good As Gold: Review
by Byline to Finish Line
posted July 2, 2010 at 2:27pm
I’ve already referenced the book “As Good As Gold” by Kathryn Bertine in previous posts but today you get my full review in video form.
This weekend, Bertine is competing at the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic cycling race in Fitchburg, Mass. I caught up...more
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World Championships in Caracas, Venezuela
by Jessica Mendoza's Blog
posted June 29, 2010 at 6:22pm
Buenos Dias todos!
Hello from South America! What a great feeling to be down here representing the U-S-A with the 16 best countries from all over the world. This is my THIRD World Championships (they are every four years, I know makes me the old lady ...more
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No One Remembers Second...
by amber2jewel
posted June 10, 2010 at 8:00pm
Amidst the USC-Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandals and the sanctions announced by the NCAA today, the Memphis-Derrick Rose scandal, Marion Jones and her steroids scandal, and yes, the fossil that is the MLB steroids scandal, I’ve been doing a l...more
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Softball should be an Olympic sport
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 25, 2010 at 5:05pm
I didn't use to have a horse in this race, indeed I even played devil's advocate on the issue, but now the world is being deprived of seeing Jen Yee play more softball and it's just wrong. More on this soon.
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Vintage Sports: 1919 Australian Women Swim Team
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 20, 2010 at 6:14pm
Women and girls’ participation in sports has come a LONG way over the years. Check out this photo of the Australian Women’s Swim Team from 1919.
While I am not sure of the actual athletes featured in the photo, it is quite possible that both Fanny ...more
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Win a Copy of Dara Torres' New Book
by anngaff
posted May 18, 2010 at 12:28pm
We have 5 copies of Dara Torres' new book Gold Medal Fitness to give away!
TO WIN:
There are THREE ways to enter and you can enter as MANY times as you want:
Post a comment on this post (below).
Send this tweet.
Post on our Facebook Page tellin...more
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Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
by anngaff
posted May 9, 2010 at 3:54pm
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
by anngaff
posted May 6, 2010 at 12:26am
(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
by Pretty Tough
posted May 5, 2010 at 4:31pm
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
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
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