"ski-jumping" Articles & Blogs:
Women’s ski jumping added to Sochi Olympic Games 2014
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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...[Read on] |
“Join the Journey NYC” for equality in sport on Oct. 21
| American Lindsey Van has launched off ski jumps more than 20,000 times — often going the length of two football fields. In 2009, she became the first women’s world champion of ski jumping. But she didn’t compete in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancou...[Read on] |
Female ski jumpers lose 2010 Olympic battle
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Female ski jumper Lindsey Van
We’ve written a lot over the past year about the battle waged by 15 former and current women ski jumpers who have argued about their right to participate in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
For some background, chec...[Read on] |
'Precious' Sparkles in November's Film Lineup
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Jumping the month's movie release chronology, let's get right to the long-awaited, much anticipated movie with that crazy name: "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." It arrives on select screens Nov. 13.
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The Shriver Report: Half the workforce, but still Mean Girls?
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The recently-released Shriver Report has provided us with the knowledge that women are now half the paid US workforce as well as a jumping-off point to discuss the state of women’s equality in...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Poli...[Read on] |
WTS Podcast Series: Pioneer Sports Journalist Christine Brennan, Part 2
| Welcome to the second podcast in a 3-part series of interviews with Christine Brennan, renowned sports journalist, best-selling author and commentator. Brennan was a pioneer as a female sports journalist and is still today the most widely-read femal...[Read on] |
Virginia Madsen Getting Into Olympic Fight
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I still have major issues with Madsen for shilling Botox, but her Title IX Productions which she formed last year is taking on a good fight - the right for women ski jumpers to compete in the Olympic games.
Film follows 15 athletes and their fight agains...[Read on] |
Happy Ada Lovelace Day
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Today is Ada Lovelace Day - an international celebration of women in technology.
Who was Ada? The daughter of poet Lord Byron and the Countess of Lovelace, Ada Lovelace (b. Dec. 10 1815) is considered the world’s first computer programmer. She was one ...[Read on] |
Women and (March) Madness
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It's that time of year. Yes, the birds are starting to chirp and the crocuses are peeking their little colorful heads up through the dry, brittle grass. This, I am very excited about. But what has me even more excited at this exact moment is a different k...[Read on] |
Think video games are for lazy bums? These will get you in shape
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Working out can be the dullest and most frustrating activity on the face of the earth. It is necessary to be active to keep our lovely figures fit and trim, but sometimes getting started can be downright impossible.The prospect of running on a treadmill o...[Read on] |
WNBA: Something just ain't right
| Something is different about the WNBA this year.I'm not talking about the so-called parity that has resulted in teams with veteran basketball stars regularly getting their butts kicked. I'm talking about the way many longtime WNBA supporters and fans have...[Read on] |
Notes on a Scandal, or, VMAs=FAIL.
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MTV gets a lot of grief about losing it’s music video mojo, but after last night’s debacle of a Video Music Awards, rejecting the music world doesn’t seem like a bad idea. At least in the interest of sanity.
By now the world knows abo...[Read on] |
New accessories and clothes may help fitness efforts
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What if you could improve your athleticism or physique just by wearing an accessory or an article of clothing? Thanks to a new crop of performance wear products, you actually may be able to do so. For the most part, the items sound too good to be true ...[Read on] |
Top Female Celebrity Sports Fans
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Jack Nicholson, recently rated the No. 1 fan for his rabid following of the LA Lakers by the Bleacher Report, is to Spike Lee and the NY Knicks what Courtney Cox and the Lakers is to Carrie Underwood and the Dallas Cowboys. Or what Condoleezza Rice and th...[Read on] |
Lessons from Quinnipiac: Cheer should be an NCAA sport (with a different name), think fresh (don’t whine like the male wrestlers) — and, yes, we still need Title IX
| By Laura Pappano
When District Judge Stefan Underhill ruled against Quinnipiac University – last year they sought to cut women’s volleyball and add competitive cheer to fulfill Title IX requirements – the 95-page ruling ironically did more to boost...[Read on] |
Greet the sun with Pick-Me-Up Yoga
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The feeling of waking up more tired than you were previous to falling asleep is a complete drag.
This can be contributed to by a number of different things. Your mattress, what time of month it is, and one drink too many the night prior can all cause you...[Read on] |
Why I’m not worried about the “Liz Lemoning” of TV
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It’s that time of the year when spring is in the air and we all shed our dreaded winter coats and look into out closets and check out the spring/summer apparel with a fit of excitement and dread. (Will that one fit after this particularly cold winter?...[Read on] |
Meditation on Driving in Los Angeles Rain
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The big winter rains have finally arrived in the Los Angeles area. While
many of you might laugh at this announcement because you may have been
living with seasonal rain and snow for a few months already, this is
actually a monumental week for So-Cal dri...[Read on] |
Against the odds: Girls in urban areas face unique challenges in playing sports
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.Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports
Her first piece, about a middle school basketball team in Brooklyn, highlights challenges facing the gir...[Read on] |
Happy to Introduce: Smart Jumper Cables!
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Today's cars are very complex. If the battery of your car dies - you want to be very careful that you do the right thing! Here are four different ways you can charge the battery to get your car rolling down the road again.
1. Slowly charge the bat...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Candace Bushnell: Sex & the City Author
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As you walk past them, their expensive perfume eludes from every corner, their high-end-high-heels leave a beating rhythm that you can’t get out of your head, and you are left watching in complete awe as they demand attention in every room they enter...[Read on] |
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