#Women In Sports

[emsiewithlove]

This account is so real for posting shit without a word because what the fuck

[clubhoops]

Coco Gauff in Miami at Unrivaled.

Coco is an investor in the league.

[kittyit]

Congratulations to Tara Dower for becoming the fastest person in history to complete the Appalachian Trail! The 31-year-old from Virginia completed the 2,168 mile (3,489 km) backcountry trail in 40 days, 18 hours, and five minutes, a distance usually covered by an A.T. thru-hiker in five to seven months.

To set the record, Dower ran and hiked an average of 54 miles each day on the often rocky and steep trail, which includes a total vertical gain of 465,000 feet as it runs through fourteen states. She started her daily runs at 3:30 am and continued for approximately 17 hours with several short breaks for meals and 90-second "dirt naps."

Dower used her record-setting run to raise money for Girls on the Run, saying that she hopes her feat will inspire girls and women. “I hope more women get out there,” she said. “It’s about finding our true potential. And, you know, if you beat the men, that’s an extra bonus.” When she reached the trail's end on Saturday night, the exhausted but jubilant Dower fell to her knees and put her hands on the bronze plaque that reads, “A footpath for those who seek fellowship with the wilderness.”

9/28/2024

Article | Tara Treks | Girls on the Run

[logansargey]

So, apparently new F1 fans don't know there were women in the F1 sport before. No, not F2 drivers, actual F1 drivers. So I feel like I should tell you guys about the first ever F1 female driver.

This is Maria Teresa de Filippis. She was born November 11, 1926 in Naples, Italy. She died January 18, 2016.

She participated in five World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1958, but scored no championship points. She was a huge step in the F1 world for women, especially in that time period. She is hugely overlooked.

In the late 1940s, at the end of World War II, de Filippis developed an interest in motorsport. Despite some disbelief from friends and family, where two of her brothers told her that she would not be able to go very fast, goading her and making a bet that she would be slow, but at the age of 22, de Filippis began her racing career. She won her first race, driving a Fiat 500 on a 10 km drive between Salerno and Cava de' Tirreni. This result gave her the confidence to compete in the Italian sports car championship, where she finished second in the 1954 season.

After her, no woman would race in F1 again for 15 years until Lella Lombardi competed between 1974 and 1976. I will be doing a post about Lella, too.

[the-football-chick]

Team USA rugby player and bronze medalist Ilona Maher showing women can have a soft side and a GTFO the way side.

[gamer2002]

I was born a weak man, due to my relatively light built and a born condition. I still can overpower an average woman.

Denial of biological reality and allowing a biological man with confirmed XY chromosome to compete with women in boxing during the most prestigious once per 4 years (summer) sports championship in the world is evil. What kind of championed rights require a man to beat up women? What is worth this?

Trans movement should denounce this, instead of counting on the pendulum never swinging back. Think again if you want it to happen on preferable conditions or to risk for the pendulum to smash your teeth.

[samanthasgone]

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[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Lesbians On The Loose ( August 1996 • Issue 80 • Vol 7 No 8 ) , photo by Dianna Fairweather

[janesurlife]

Lando as young as he is, seems like more mature than a lot of older drivers (and men in general) on the grid

There was no need for that male journalist to call him "liar" when he praised the female journalist but obviously his misogynist ass thought that there is only one reason women get praise in the workplace. Good on lando to speak up again him.

[the-cimmerians]

Imane Khelif, you may remember, is an Algerian boxer, one of two to be attacked during the Olympics as cheaters, as transsexual women, as men, and even as violent criminals — all of which was completely false. The two of them, the other being Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan, were relentlessly demeaned, mocked, and threatened, based only on how each woman had been — retroactively — excluded from an international competition last year by the International Boxing Association. Famous anti-trans politicians and personalities piled on, with Donald Trump, JD Vance, Megyn Kelly, and JK Rowling being among the most recognizable. Possibly because Rowling singled out Khelif and not Lin, the harassment of Khelif was even worse than Lin faced, and many have been wondering when karma might finally land the author in court.

The answer is … not exactly soon, but that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. While in the process of winning gold under unprecedented pressure (as Lin did also), Khelif worked with a famous and well-regarded Paris lawyer, Nabil Boudi, to prepare a complaint about the harassment. It was filed on Friday, August 9, actually before the gold medal bout. Although many people in the English speaking world have misinterpreted this as a defamation lawsuit (Variety seems to have corrected the body of its article, but not its headline), in fact it’s a criminal complaint alleging “moral harassment,” and per Le Monde was filed with “the Paris correctional court's National Centre for Combating Online Hate.”

So what is ‘moral harassment’ and what’s next?

Moral harassment is a criminal charge that is typically of lesser severity, on a relative par with stalking laws in the United States. As with stalking, there are more and less serious versions and the penalties can vary, but the most serious can be penalized by up to three years in jail and a fine of up to 45,000 Euros. Most violations carry lesser penalties. It is generally defined as repeated acts that have the object or effect of injuring the rights or dignity of a person, harming their health, or impairing certain other specific activities (like the ability to perform one's job).

The Centre for Combating Online Hate is a subunit of the Central Office for Combating Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH) and a recent creation. It is empowered to investigate all acts of moral harassment (amongst other hate crimes and crimes against dignity) against persons within France’s borders, even visitors like Khelif and even when the online perpetrators are unknown or outside of France’s jurisdiction.

A number of prominent people within France participated in the harassment of Khelif, including Eric Zemmour, a far-right racist politician who most recently ran for the Parliament of the European Union with the “far-right Reconquête! party.” Yes, that “Reconquête!” means just what you think it does. Members of Rassemblement National also racked up millions of views for their sexist and cissexist tweets targeting Khelif. All of these figures, and more, could face a civil fine plus forced restitution (which would not prevent Khelif from also suing for defamation) or criminal penalties if prosecuted and convicted.

The scope of the investigation, however, is certain to include the tweets of Rowling and others outside France who participated in what the complaint labeled a campaign of harassment both “massive” and “coordinated.” Speaking to Le Monde, Boudi said,

“The investigation will have to determine who was behind this misogynistic, racist, and sexist campaign, as well as those who fueled this digital lynching.”

French prosecutors have authority to request documents and other evidence from foreign governments, but outside the EU they have no ability to require cooperation, only to request it. (Inside the EU their ability to require cooperation is limited, but not non-existent.) While other European countries often have hate speech and harassment laws that overlap with those of France, speech protections are stronger in the UK than in mainland Europe and even stronger in the US. Criminal prosecution of — just as an example — JK Rowling would be possible but more difficult than a French prosecution of Zemmour and his co-harassers. In the USA, prosecution is right out.

So why bother pursuing evidence against Rowling, Musk, Trump, and Vance?

OCLCH, the office under which the online centre is organized, has as part of its mission the support of victims in their attempt to access justice. As a result of this mandate combined with the scope of France’s law against moral harassment, the prosecution investigative service is empowered to gather evidence relating to the treatment of persons within its borders even when charges can’t be filed. The benefit here is that evidence collected by the government at the government’s expense can then be used by private parties in defamation lawsuits, allowing victims to collect monetary judgements even when the prosecutors choose not to indict or a person using the internet to harass someone in France is beyond the reach of French law.

Boudi, with a background in both criminal and human rights laws, undoubtedly knows this and how to exploit it. While his client has achieved fame in winning a gold medal, it’s unlikely she has the money to pursue defamation claims around the world (and against the world’s richest respondents). While many people in the US may find it shocking that sending a tweet can be made a criminal offense in Europe, the tools that this allows the French government to use to provide equal access to justice for rich and poor will likely be crucial in the certainly forthcoming Khelif lawsuits against Rowling and her ilk in the English speaking world.

Don’t expect that defamation lawsuit too soon, however. Boudi will undoubtedly be working closely with prosecutors to keep on top of all the evidence that they gather and will want to give them time to work before bringing the civil law to bear.

[emsiewithlove]

Put me 10 minutes in a room with that 55 years old antique mf who threatened and sent weird stuff to Clark, and you can add the creepy one who stalked Bueckers a while ago !!! Oh and you know what ?? ADD EVERY MAN WHO EVER WRONGED A WOMAN I SWEAR I CAN FIGHT THEM ALL, GET BEHIND ME LADIES !

[clubhoops]

Minnesota Lynx star Courtney Williams has popped the question to her longtime girlfriend, N'Shya Seigle—and she said yes! The couple, who have been together for two years, are now officially engaged.

[mrsoulstice]

😍😍

[longliveblackness]

Jackie Tonawanda was known in her prime as 'The Female Ali'. She was an incredible woman who boxed for years before women were allowed to fight in sanctioned bouts.

She was one of the great pioneers of women's boxing, being one of the first women awarded a boxing licence in New York.

She lost her only professional fight but holds an impressive record from her underground bouts. She was even named the No. 1 light heavyweight by Boxing Illustrated in 1979 and 1980.

Due to the majority of her fights being unsanctioned as women were not allowed to prize fight her record is hard to determine.

Sources claim it anywhere from 23-0 to 36-0. Despite this uncertainty Tonwanada's achievements go far beyond her boxing record. She was the first woman to box in Madison Square Garden in 1975. Her opponent was kickboxer Larry Rodania whom she knocked out in the second round with a strike that broke his jaw. A man fighting a woman in such a public venue was unheard of, however it pushed female fighters into the spotlight.

Tonawanda faced sexism head on and set out to prove that women were more than capable as pugilists. She sued the state for discrimination and the state supreme court ruled in her favour, urging her to sue once again to have the laws preventing women from boxing to be revoked. Tonwanda did not pursue further legal action, in the coming years she would continue to fight in underground bouts and in 1976 she was invited to attend a training camp for Muhammad Ali.

Her movement to recognise women's boxing as legitimate was taken further by fellow boxer Cathy Davis in 1978 which lead to Davis, Tonawanda and Marian Trimiar to be the first women to receive boxing licenses in the state of New York. After gaining her licence and being allowed to fight professionally Tonawanda was much older than her contemporary opponents.

She fought one professional bout against Diane Clark and lost in the 6th round by split decision, making her professional record 0-1. In 1986 she was injured in a car accident which forced her to officially retire, ending her professional career.

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Jackie Tonawanda era conocida en su mejor momento como "La mujer Ali". Era una mujer increíble que boxeó durante años antes de que a las mujeres se les permitiera pelear en combates autorizados.

Fue una de las grandes pioneras del boxeo femenino, siendo una de las primeras mujeres en obtener una licencia de boxeo en Nueva York.

Perdió su única pelea profesional, pero tiene un récord impresionante de sus peleas clandestinas. Incluso fue nombrada semipesado número uno por Boxing Illustrated en 1979 y 1980.

Debido a que la mayoría de sus peleas no fueron autorizadas ya que a las mujeres no se les permitía pelear, su récord es difícil de determinar.

Las fuentes afirman que está entre 23-0 y 36-0. A pesar de esta incertidumbre, los logros de Tonwanada van mucho más allá de su récord en el boxeo. Fue la primera mujer en boxear en el Madison Square Garden en 1975. Su oponente fue el kickboxer Larry Rodania, a quien noqueó en el segundo asalto con un golpe que le rompió la mandíbula. Que un hombre peleara con una mujer en un lugar tan público era algo inaudito, sin embargo, puso a las luchadoras en el centro de atención.

Tonawanda enfrentó el sexismo de frente y se propuso demostrar que las mujeres eran más que capaces como pugilistas. Ella demandó al estado por discriminación y la corte suprema del estado falló a su favor, instándola a demandar una vez más para que se revoquen las leyes que impiden a las mujeres boxear. Tonwanda no emprendió más acciones legales, en los años siguientes continuaría peleando en combates clandestinos y en 1976 fue invitada a asistir a un campo de entrenamiento para Muhammad Ali.

Su movimiento para reconocer el boxeo femenino como legítimo fue llevado más allá por su compañera boxeadora Cathy Davis en 1978, lo que llevó a Davis, Tonawanda y Marian Trimiar a ser las primeras mujeres en recibir licencias de boxeo en el estado de Nueva York. Después de obtener su licencia y poder pelear profesionalmente, Tonawanda era mucho mayor que sus oponentes contemporáneos.

Peleó en una pelea profesional contra Diane Clark y perdió en el sexto asalto por decisión dividida, lo que hizo que su récord profesional fuera de 0-1. En 1986 sufrió un accidente automovilístico que la obligó a retirarse oficialmente, poniendo fin a su carrera profesional.