#Women in Sport

[livefastdriveyoung]

A person can learn about a sport and come to like it through a WAG. Just saying. It's how I learned Football, because despite growing up in an American home, it wasn't until I realized that Gisele Bundchen was at that point married to one of them that I was like "huh, must be interesting."

If you've actively gotten into Football because of Taylor Swift, Hailee Steinfeld, or Olivia Culpo, or Simone Biles, or any other WAG, welcome. It's a really really complicated game of catch. Don't call it that to some people's faces, they will get very angry. You can cry when your team loses, you can cry when the other team has an underdog story. I cried like a baby over Brock Purdy. It's fun. Sports are fun.

If you got into F1 because of Nicole Scherzinger, first of all, hi, you're a real trooper. If you got into F1 because of Shakira, or Taylor, or Carmen or Alexandra, or Lily, or Charlotte, or Isa, or Rebecca, welcome. The sport is insanely toxic also. But like it's really fun to play "Are they gay or just European?" The cars are fast, they're insane, and they compete at a scale that is practically unheard of for a sport. They are the top 20. You can have a favorite driver and a different favorite team. You can have a favorite team principal. You can think a penalty is absolute trash, or that one was warranted. You can think some tracks are better than others. You can run the race on high speed if you watch it after the fact.

It's a valid way to join the sport. I promise.

Women bring women together in so many capacities. My friend got her first job because she went to a networking event for women in a field dominated by men. Why can't women bring women into sports?

[theanticool]

One of my favorite boxing writers, Malissa Smith, has finally published a sequel to her book on women’s boxing history!

The Promise of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science is now available!

The must-read book on the rise of elite women’s boxing

On April 30th, 2022, the first boxing super-fight of the era, headlined by two women and fought at Madison Square Garden, lived up to its hype and then some. The two contestants fought the battle of their lives in front of a sold-out crowd and garnered 1.5 million views through online streaming. It was the culmination of a long, three-centuries arc of women’s boxing history, a history fraught with highs and lows but always imbued with the heart and passion of the women who fought.

In The Promise of Women's Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science, Malissa Smith details the exciting period from the 2012 Olympics through the true “million-dollar baby” women’s super-fights of 2022 and beyond. Rich in content, the stories that emerge focus on boxing stars new and old, important battles, and the challenges women still face in boxing. Smith examines the development of the sport on a global basis, the transition of amateur boxers to the pros, the impact of online streamlining on the sport, the challenges boxing has faced from MMA, and the unprecedented gains women’s boxing has made in the era of the super-fight with extraordinary seven-figure opportunities for elite female stars.

Featuring the stories of women’s boxing icons Katie Taylor, Amanda Serrano, Savannah Marshall, and more, and with a foreword by two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time undisputed champion Claressa Shields, The Promise of Women’s Boxing offers unprecedented insight into the incredible growth of the sport and the women who have fought in and out of the ring to make it all possible.

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[loverllyhurtswithoutyou]

"Just because it’s the way things have always been doesn’t mean it’ the way it needs to be."

Do you see the message ? Because I do.

[wtfjd95]

If anyone has a good quality pic of Rhea Ripley during her entrance at the end last night's Monday Night Raw please let me know. I am kinda obsessed with how her hair is growing out more now.

Please and thank you 🫶🫶

[womeninfictionandirl]

Althea Gibson by Allison Adams

Althea Gibson (1927 – 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer. She became the first black athlete to break through the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to win a Gram Slam title. The following year, she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals, and won both again the following year. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including six doubles titles, In the early 1960s she also became the first black player to compete on the women’s professional golf tour.

At a time when racism and prejudice were widespread in sports and in society, it was enormously difficult to play in professional sports if you were black, let alone a woman, but she made history by competing not only in tennis but in the golf circuit as well. “I am honored to have followed in such great footsteps,” wrote Venus Williams, “Her accomplishments set the stage for my success, and through players like myself and Serena and many others to come, her legacy will live on.”

[zestingbloodorange]

Linda Caicedo nominated for the Ballon D'or and played three world cups whilst being just eighteen years old she's already a goat.

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From MSG networks ”Women of the W”. Full discussion on MSG+

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[arconinternet]

Women in Sports: Rodeo (Book, Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, 1978)

You can digitally borrow it here.

[samkerrworshipper]

words cannot explain how proud i was watching Leah at the UN today. so well spoken and so inspirational, i know this injury has been so hard for her but you can see how much she’s changed in her recovery, how her whole perspective on everything has changed. such a inspiration to any young girls wanting more for the future.

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[womeninfictionandirl]

Serena Williams by Sam Brannan

[zestingbloodorange]

say whatever you want to say about sophia but don't act like she's not a good driver.she did well this season in a cardboard box. first points after starting from p24 and after her first points from before got disqualified cause of her front wing.soild comeback and she has the potential to do more.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

“I was born into a family of athletes. Encouraged by my parents and siblings, I competed in sports from a young age, and I followed in my sister’s footsteps, climbing the ranks to become an elite cyclocross racer. Over the past few years, I have had to race directly with male cyclists in women’s events. As this has become more of a reality, it has become increasingly discouraging to train as hard as I do only to have to lose to a man with the unfair advantage of an androgenized body that intrinsically gives him an obvious advantage over me, no matter how hard I train.

I have decided to end my cycling career. At my last race at the recent UCI Cyclocross National Championships in the elite women’s category in December 2022, I came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd and 5th places. My sister and family sobbed as they watched a man finish in front of me, having witnessed several physical interactions with him throughout the race.

Additionally, it is difficult for me to think about the very real possibility I was overlooked for an international selection on the US team at Cyclocross Worlds in February 2023 because of a male competitor.

Moving forward, I feel for young girls learning to compete and who are growing up in a day when they no longer have a fair chance at being the new record holders and champions in cycling because men want to compete in our division. I have felt deeply angered, disappointed, overlooked, and humiliated that the rule makers of women’s sports do not feel it is necessary to protect women’s sports to ensure fair competition for women anymore.”

— Hannah Arensman

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