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Vancouver Olympics all about the people
by Kaci Kust
posted February 14, 2010 at 6:46pm

As an athlete watching the Olympics, it makes you really think about each Olympians’ individual stories. Each one of them has lived a life dedicated to their sport. They’ve each made personal sacrifices. They’ve woken up early and stayed up late pra...more

Vancouver Game On: Today’s Schedule
by Pretty Tough
posted February 14, 2010 at 6:46pm

NBC: 1 – 6 pm. Women’s speedskating. 3,000 gold-medal final Nordic combined, individual gold-medal final, K-95 juming, 10km cross-country, Men’s luge, Men’s biathlon 7 – 11 pm Figure skating, pairs short program Men’s freestyle skiing, mogul...more

Lindsey Vonn's helmet designed by Idahoman
by Women Skiing and Sports
posted February 14, 2010 at 5:07pm

When Lindsey Vonn races at Whistler, she'll be wearing a helmet with artwork of an Idaho man who entered a contest sponsored by NBCOlympics.com. The flame design by Laddie Lee Whitwork won first place and got him a trip to Vail where Lindsey and her husba...more

There’s a shark in the pool, and its name is Canada
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 14, 2010 at 1:51pm

Caroline Oulette of Team Canada (Photo by Tyler Ingram) I’m writing this post at the second intermission of the Canada vs. Slovakia women’s hockey game, and it’s already 12-0 Canada. I think Canada was kind of slacking in the second period, actua...more

Sarcasm over, SI: time for real pics of female athletes
by Fair Game News
posted February 13, 2010 at 6:06pm

By Laura Pappano OK, I’ve learned something valuable: My effort at a tongue-in-cheek fan letter to SI for their “un-coverage” of female athletes was not clearly tongue-in-cheek to many readers on this site or the Women Talk Sports network site. Fi...more

Thank You Moms Olympic Commercial
by Sports Girls Play
posted February 13, 2010 at 2:26pm

Let me just say that the ads for the Winter Olympics so far are so much better than those for the Superbowl! My favorite one so far has to be the Proctor and Gamble ad featuring winter sport athletes as little kids – because through the eyes of their ...more

Vancouver 2010 Kicks Off
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 13, 2010 at 2:22pm

Vancouver’s XXI Winter Olympic Games began Saturday with a sad loss and an intense opening ceremony with hockey “Great One” Wayne Gretzky finally leading a group of Canadian sports stars to light the torch. The torch on its way to its final des...more

Finding Olympic spirit in tragedy
by Byline to Finish Line
posted February 13, 2010 at 12:48pm

Early Friday afternoon, veteran reporters of the Olympic Games were on the radio, discussing whether some of the winter sports had become too extreme. From injecting ice in ski runs to difficult snowboarding tricks which even left the sports’ supersta...more

NOT the same: Vonn v. Kitt Sports Illustrated covers
by One Sport Voice
posted February 13, 2010 at 12:29pm

Sports Illustrated Covers of Olympic Skiers In rebuttal to the “Vonn Watch” Sports Illlustrated cover blog post I made, many people commented and pointed out that A.J. Kitt was similarly posed in 1992 and no one called it sexual. I don&rsqu...;more

Video of Fox Business Happy Hour Interview
by anngaff
posted February 12, 2010 at 8:56pm

Here it is, folks. The video of the short interview I did with Fox Business Happy Hour (Host Rebecca Diamond). If it won't play for you below, try this link. Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com ...more

FREE DOWNLOAD: Women & the Winter Olympics Reference Guide
by Pretty Tough
posted February 12, 2010 at 1:08pm

The Winter Games kick off in Vancouver Friday, February 12th and we’re stoked to see our fave female athletes compete in events like skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, luge, bobsled and more. For all the deets on who’s competing when, along with...more

Let the Games begin!
by Byline to Finish Line
posted February 12, 2010 at 12:18pm

If I were to rank my favorite months, February would be near the bottom. Granted, it’s the shortest month on the calendar, but it qualitatively feels long. This, no doubt, comes from the rhythm of my life. Not only is it usually a gray, cold month in ...more

It’s Winter Olympics Time. Do you know where the LGBT Olympians are?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 12, 2010 at 12:13pm

Well, of course they are in Vancouver, B.C. preparing for the competition. Thanks to the research of women at AfterEllen, we know that there are at least four openly lesbian Olympians competing. Heather Hogan wrote this article about them with some grea...more

Olympic dream a reality for Iran's female skier
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted February 12, 2010 at 12:10pm

By Samira Simone and Azadeh Ansari, CNN (CNN) -- Marjan Kalhor is already a champion, even though the Olympic flame has yet to blaze in Vancouver, Canada. Her dream has come true, even without a podium finish. "I always asked my brother, 'Why can't a...more

Iran’s first Olympic woman skier to carry the flag
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted February 12, 2010 at 11:21am

Vancouver, Feb 9 – Iranian alpine skier Marjan Kalhor will carry her country’s flag at the opening ceremony of the winter Games in Vancouver, organising officials said. Kalhor will be the first woman to represent Iran at the winter Olympics, compet...more

SBX Team Ready for All Comers
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted February 11, 2010 at 9:15pm

After a gold and silver in Torino, the U.S. Olympic Snowboardcross Team might well have a target on its back at Cypress Mountain. But so does everybody else in the daring sport that pits four boarders against each other on an obstacle-laden battle to th...more

"Politics is culture is politics": Mayer, Social Media, and the Narcissistic Cult of Self
by Swish Appeal
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:12pm

I don't actually care about John Mayer one way or the other -- anybody trying this hard to get attention should simply be ignored because any publicity is good publicity, right? Of course, I found his controversial comments abhorrent, but sadly not a ...more

Good thing she knows how to pose in a bathing suit
by After Atalanta
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:07pm

Because if Lindsey Vonn had a plan to gain Michael Phelps-like fame by winning many medals and becoming a highly decorated American skier, she might have to fall back on her modeling career.I refrained from commenting on the little upsurge in controversy ...more

Thank you, Sports Illustrated!!!!!!!!!!! (From a women’s sports fan)
by Fair Game News
posted February 11, 2010 at 12:31pm

By Laura Pappano As a Sports Illustrated subscriber, I just want to offer a big “Thank You” for all the recent coverage of Lindsey Vonn – or should I say “un”-coverage? If crazy feminists got all in a wad about last week’s cover photo of V...more

Dudes, the Olympics are coming!
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 11, 2010 at 12:15pm

Yep, believe it or not, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia (that’s in Western Canada, if you’re map-challenged) start this Friday with the qualifying round of individual ski jumping in the morning, and the opening ceremony in...more

Lindsey Vonn: uncovering a controversy
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 10, 2010 at 3:56pm

Yesterday, I predicted the Lindsey Vonn-SI cover controversy, despite a brief lull, wasn't over yet. And you're about to see why. Say what you will about Vonn, but she is making the most of her "Olympic moment"—as well she should. This is a clever woman...more

At least some women will be allowed to fly down an icy slope
by After Atalanta
posted February 10, 2010 at 11:26am

The women ski jumpers may have lost their bid to gain entry into the Vancouver Olympics (as recounted in this article which I thought tried too hard to put a positive spin on the sexism) but the 2-women bobsled team from Australia is in! The Court of Arbi...more

Vonn Watch: Part II
by One Sport Voice
posted February 10, 2010 at 11:24am

  Ok, so if you didn’t agree with my critique (and many didn’t!) of the February 8, 2010 Sports Illustrated cover of Olympian Lindsey Vonn that can be interpreted as sexualized, the photographs of Vonn and other female athletes in the 20...more

GameOn Podcast: Johnny Weir & Michelle Roark
by GoGameFace: Watch Sports Like a Girl
posted February 9, 2010 at 6:55pm

We love "Be Good, Johnny Weir" — the reality show on the Sundance Channel starring our new pal Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir. Oh and we can't wait to watch our pal Michelle Roark, Olympic skier, go for the gold, then try some of her perfume. And w...more

More on Lindsey Vonn: "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility"
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 9, 2010 at 12:27pm

An aphorism of James Thurber's (a takeoff on Wordsworth's "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity") fittingly introduces this post. Now that the brouhaha over the Lind...more

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