Tag Archives: Olympics

Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith speaks for us all when she tells sexist trolls we don’t care if you don’t find us attractive

By Maya | Published: August 1, 2012
TweetLast week, after the BCC aired a documentary about British Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith and her teammates, dudes on Twitter responded with some highly original quips about the athletes not being feminine enough. (Yep, people actually still say things like, “Now piss off back to the kitchen and make your boyfriend a sandwich he’s hungry.”) [...]
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Saudi woman will be competing in judo donning hijab

By Samhita | Published: July 31, 2012
Tweet This year in the 2012 Olympics women are competing from every country that is participating in the Olympics including, for the first time ever, Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Qatar. To be clear, Qatar and Brunei weren’t as resistant as our dear friends in the Middle East–Saudi Arabia who made women’s inclusion next to impossible. [...]
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There’s no crying in…the Olympics?

By zerlina | Published: July 31, 2012
TweetI must have missed the memo but apparently it’s a BFD that U.S. gymnast Jordyn Wieber cried.  Wieber, last year’s World Champion, missed the cut and will not be able to compete in the upcoming individual all-around competition at this year’s London games.  The rule states that only two athletes from each team are allowed to [...]
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Olympics update: Saudi Arabia will not send women after all

By Chloe | Published: July 10, 2012
TweetA few weeks ago I excitedly reported that the last three dominoes – that is, countries that exclude women from Olympic competition but not men – had fallen. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei had all decided to let women go to the Olympics. Turns out I got a little too excited. Yesterday, it was reported [...]
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Why doesn’t Sarah Robles, the highest ranked American weightlifter, have all the athletic sponsorships?

By Maya | Published: July 3, 2012
Tweet I mentioned this story about American weightlifter Sarah Robles already, but I think it deserves a whole post. The twenty-three-year-old is the highest ranked weightlifter in the country, beat out every female and male American at the world championships last year, and can lift more than 568 pounds–which is apparently equivalent to one large [...]
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