Tag Archives: Sports

Breaking: Gabby Douglas wins gold!

By Chloe | Published: August 2, 2012

TweetToday, Gabby Douglas became America’s first African American all around Olympic gymnastics champion. She is, in fact, the first woman of colour to ever win this medal. Here she is doing her amazing goddamn thing at National Championships in June. Tweet

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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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The Modern Olympics just got a hell of a lot more modern

By Chloe | Published: June 25, 2012

TweetThe BBC reports that after much speculation, Saudi Arabia will finally allow women to compete at the Olympics this year: The public participation of women in sport is still fiercely opposed by many Saudi religious conservatives. There is almost no public tradition of women participating in sport in the country. Saudi officials say that with [...]

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