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Women Talk Sports & Pretty Tough Support Ready to Fly Film
by Pretty Tough
posted January 30, 2012 at 2:43pm

Women Talk Sports and Pretty Tough are pleased to support the new documentary film Ready to Fly directed by William A. Kerig. A stand-up-and-cheer, feel-good movie, Ready to Fly follows World Champion ski jumper Lindsey Van and her women’s ski jump...more

Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke remains in critical condition
by Pretty Tough
posted January 12, 2012 at 12:49pm

Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke crashed while training on the 22-foot Eagle Superpipe in Park City, Utah, and is reportedly in a coma and in critical condition a day after being airlifted to a Salt Lake City hospital. In a statement released by University...more

Video: Angela Ruggiero announces retirement, reflects on 16 years with USA Hockey
by anngaff
posted December 29, 2011 at 1:54pm

Angela Ruggiero announces her retirement from the U.S. Women's National Team today. Ruggeiro made her first appearance with USA in 1998. She's helped her country win 4 olympic medals (gold in '98, bronze in '06 and silver in '08 and '10). In 2004, Rug...more

Fast and Female Fairbanks: Empowerment Through Sport
by Becca Rorabaugh
posted November 1, 2011 at 10:32am

Yesterday was the first (hopefully annual) Fast and Female event in Fairbanks Alaska.  Fast and Female, a Canadian non-profit organization, puts on camps for girls ages 9-19 throughout North America.  Participants get a T-shirt, assorted goodies, and ...more

Women's Ski Jumping USA leaders inducted into Ski Jumping Hall of Fame
by anngaff
posted October 31, 2011 at 6:35pm

via release Three Women’s Ski Jumping USA leaders have been inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame.  The Friends of American Ski Jumping named Deedee Corradini, Victor Method and Peter Jerome to the Hall of Fame class of 2011 a...more

Athletes: Are We Fooling Ourselves?
by Becca Rorabaugh
posted September 23, 2011 at 10:34am

This spring I was listening to a podcast about lying, and there was a brief mention about the best athletes practicing self-deception in order to perform better.  For example, a successful track and field athlete claims to repeat ‘I am the best...more

XC Skiing-- slightly north of mainstream
by Becca Rorabaugh
posted September 19, 2011 at 8:58pm

Who trains 4 hours a day, spends weeks living on a glacier in the summer, and goes down hills at 40mph with no brakes?...more

Slopestyle finally added to Olympic roster
by Westbound Boarder
posted July 9, 2011 at 9:42am

Many of you have probably heard by now that earlier week, the Internal Olympic Committee (IOC) cast a vote to finally make slopestyle an Olympic snowboarding and skiing event (Read the news in ESPN or Transworld Business).  Though the news was quickly ov...more

IOC Names Short List of New Sports For 2020: Baseball and Softball Listed
by Women in Sport International
posted July 5, 2011 at 10:40pm

Today the IOC announced its new events for Sochi 2014, and its shortlisted sports for 2020. The IOC today officially confirmed the inclusion of ski slopestyle, snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel special slalom (all for men and women) for the 2...more

Parity And Olympic Hockey: My Two Cents
by The First Line
posted May 1, 2011 at 12:10pm

The recent piece by Caroline Murphy for ESPNW and the response by David De Remer have opened an important discussion about women’s sports in the Olympics and the media coverage thereof.  From my perspective, we risk getting stuck in a paradigm where we...more

Not-so-good commercial(s) featuring athletes
by After Atalanta
posted April 20, 2011 at 3:38pm

Dr. Pants told me about the new Acura commercial a few weeks ago and Sean from at sportsBabel sent me the link last week. Apparently, I need to blog about this one.The commercial features Canadian skier Ashleigh McGivor. Let's strip the athlete down...more

Top 20 (hilarious) reasons it took so long to add women's ski jumping to the Olympics
by Women in Sport International
posted April 11, 2011 at 6:11pm

I came across this hilarious article, courtesy of SB Nation, and just had to share it with all of you:Holly Anderson, "Women's Ski Jumping at the Winter Olympics: It's a Trap": 20 Reasons. This article tracks down the top 20 reasons why it took so long ...more

Rachel Maddow Rings a Cowbell for Women's Ski Jumpers
by anngaff
posted April 7, 2011 at 3:51pm

Rachel Maddow dedicated several minutes to last night's show to talk about the long overdue addition of women's ski jumping to the Olympics. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ...more

Women Ski Jumpers Can Finally Celebrate but Olympic Gender Battle is Not Over
by Women in Sport International
posted April 7, 2011 at 12:51pm

Yesterday, April 6, 2011 is a huge day for women's ski jumpers and women around the globe. Finally, the Winter Olympic Games will host all of its events for both men and women. The ski jumpers fought hard for their inclusion. After years of lobbying, cour...more

Long Time Coming: Women’s ski jumping finally added to the Olympic Program
by anngaff
posted April 6, 2011 at 9:46am

LONDON, April 6, 2011 — For the first time in Olympic Winter Games history, women will participate in ski jumping, beginning in Sochi, Russia in 2014. The International Olympic Committee made the announcement today during the IOC Executive Board’s ...more

Women's Ski Jumping Could Be a Go!
by Women Skiing and Sports
posted April 6, 2011 at 2:21am

For five years, women ski jumpers have waited to get their sport into the Olympics. After an unsuccessful legal battle to get into the 2010 Vancouver Games, women's ski jumping is finally set to take its place on the Olympic program this week when the Int...more

IOC set to approve women's ski jumping for Sochi
by anngaff
posted April 5, 2011 at 12:03am

By STEPHEN WILSON The Associated Press LONDON — After a five-year wait and an unsuccessful legal battle to get into the 2010 Vancouver Games, women's ski jumping is set to take its place on the Olympic program this week. Women's jumping is among s...more

IOC member praises women’s ski jumping event in Oslo; positive sign for Sochi 2014
by anngaff
posted February 27, 2011 at 6:23pm

OSLO, Norway (Feb. 26, via release) – A little bit of sunshine peeked through an otherwise windy, foggy and challenging day Friday after women ski jumpers took to the Midtstubakken hill at the World Championships in Oslo — ready to prove to th...more

Ski jumpers Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome ready to pick the World Championships up and drop it on its head
by anngaff
posted February 20, 2011 at 12:23pm

2009 World Champ Lindsey Van, by Getty Images The FIS Nordic Ski World Championships start Wednesday in Oslo. For only the second time, women’s ski jumping will be included in the program - as an individual event only. This is currently the largest s...more

ONE DAY ONLY: Rise: Documentary of the 1961 plane crash that killed U.S. Figure Skating team
by Pretty Tough
posted February 17, 2011 at 2:48pm

Who: U.S. Figure Skating stars Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano and Michelle Kwan honoring the team of U.S. and World champion skaters, coaches and others who died in a plane crash fifty years ago. What: A star-studded event ...more

On this day in history: Women’s Sportlight
by Pretty Tough
posted February 10, 2011 at 1:48pm

Feb. 10 1968 — Peggy Fleming wins the women’s Olympic figure skating gold medal in Grenoble, France. 1992 — Bonnie Blair becomes the first woman to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal in 500-meter speed skating and the first American woman i...more

I love curling
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 2, 2011 at 3:04pm

I’ve now written 77 posts about the Super Bowl somewhere or another, and I just want them to play now. Right now. In the street, if necessary, like when Tommy Gunn and Rocky did it in Rocky 5, the third best Rocky movie. Fourth best maybe. It’s hard t...more