Tag Archives: women's sports

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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Olympic sexism study: Male athletes have skill and female athletes have luck

By Maya | Published: June 20, 2012

TweetAccording to a new study on past television coverage of the Olympics, sports commentators talk about athletes in notably different ways depending on their gender. And by “notably different” I mean “pretty sexist.” The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delaware, analyzed NBC’s primetime coverage of past games. The main findings: When female [...]

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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: The US women boxers

By Maya | Published: June 1, 2012

Tweet Andrecia Wasson, right, and Raquel Miller at the US women’s boxing Olympic trials. (Photo credit: Jed Conklin/zReportage.com) As we’ve mentioned before, a good century after the men did it, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer. That means that for the first time in Olympic history both men [...]

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