#women's athletics

[shadycomputerpolice]

What makes this sprint even more wonderful is that the winner, Sifan Hassan, competed in the 5km, 10km and marathon. She won bronze in the 5km and 10km and gold in the marathon.

Sifan Hassan is the GOAT of distance running. She really did the treble like it was nothing. Female excellence in sports

[jhsharman]

worry flurry

[shadycomputerpolice]

The GOAT of endurance sports 🙌

Traditionally, the Summer Olympics has closed with the men's marathon as the final event. In 2024, for the first time in the Games' history, the women's marathon was the final event — 40 years after the women's marathon at an Olympic Games was first allowed. Sifan Hassan (Gold), Tigst Assefa (Silver), and Hellen Obiri (Bronze) receive their medals during the Closing Ceremony.

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

Reacting to Women's Football ⚽ (arguably a lesbian thirst trap in itself)

No idea if this is worth the effort to watch; I haven’t seen it. It just popped up on my youtube homepage and I figured it had to get posted to Tumblr quick.

[beautyarchive]

Lily James in Fast Girls (2012).

[averycanadianfilm]

Women's U20 Race | World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst ...

[littlepawz]

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

[covenofduncan]

[thedarkhulk]

[shadycomputerpolice]

That time World Athletics had to pop out and show football fans.

Put some respect on their names.

[retropopcult]

Members of the Owls, a black women’s softball team in the 1930s

[blackisdivine]

Women's 4 x 100m relay Gold medalists in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome

Left to right: Wilma Rudolph, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones and Martha Hudson

Women's 4 x 100m relay Gold medalists in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris

Left to right: Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabrielle Thomas and Sha'Carri Richardson

Black Beauty & Excellence.

[bahoreal]

watching the olympics my absolute hatred of america disappears for exactly the length of simone biles' routines

[sibmakesart]

you ever get so horny interested in a concept it makes you do a bunch of studies

[beautyarchive]

The might peach of Imani-Lara Lansiquot propelling her to a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics.