Tag Archive | Olympics
Kerri Walsh Jennings Announces Olympic Pregnancy
Earlier this week, Kerri Walsh Jennings, a three-time Olympic gold medalist with partner Misty May-Treanor, announced that while she competed at the Olympics this summer in London, she was about five weeks pregnant. This is pretty cool for what didn’t happen: no one flipped out or batted an eye; athletic activity is perfectly safe in [...]
Some Ramblings: Women are Different Than Men
My senior year of high school I took a history elective about women and gender, and I’ll always remember the day we learned about “difference feminism,” which acknowledges that men and women are different and thus concludes that ”equal” treatment does not always mean “same” treatment, and ”equality feminism,” which centers around the notion that men and women should [...]
Holley Mangold Tweets
Earlier today, American weightlifter Holley Mangold tweeted: its crazy @lolojones gets flack for being an attractive athlete and I get flack for not being attractive enough #theresnopleasingeveryone – @HolleyMangold Recently Mangold was the target of a mean Conan O’Brien joke (“I predict [she] will bring home the gold and 4 guys against their will”). Over [...]
McKayla Maroney is a Boss
McKayla Maroney, holy shit. That’s a link to her incredible vault broken down into slow-mo by Deadspin. Go watch it. Seriously, you will not regret it.
Public Treatment of Female Weightlifters
Every time the Olympics roll around, I’m grateful. I’m grateful because I know there are young girls watching female athletes at the top of their game, and thinking “wow, this is an amazing feat” and “I hope someday I can do something as awesome as this.” I’m grateful because for essentially the only time each [...]
Ye Shiwen “Chicks” Ryan Lochte
Saturday night China’s 16 year old swimmer Ye Shiwen won gold in the women’s 400-meter IM, broke the world record and, ostensibly most important of all, swam faster than Ryan Lochte for 50 meters of her race. Yahoo! Sports reports: But it was her final 100 meters – the freestyle leg of the event – [...]
Olympic Round-Up
As we’ve stated previously, here at Bloomer Girls Blog, we’re obsessed with the Olympics and so excited to get together tonight to watch the (taped) Opening Ceremonies with our friends. So today, for our usual Friday Links, we’re sharing our favorites from posts leading up to the opening of the games. Sporty Style: 7 Inspiring [...]
Serena Williams is Aces
Lydia mentioned this briefly yesterday, but I wanted to expand and give it its due: Serena Williams is the aceiest of aces, having broken her own record in the semi-final of the Wimbledon tournament earlier this month by hitting 24 aces in a TWO-SET win. She broke the record by one ace, which she had [...]
Why We Write
As you all know the Olympics are just around the corner, and Sara and I could not be more excited. Whether it’s gymnastics, swimming and diving, track and field or the lesser touted events, we are so pumped for both the men’s and women’s competitions. And while Saudi Arabia is not is is only doing it [...]
Links Post
We may be consumed with reading yesterday’s 193-page healthcare decision and all the corresponding analysis, but we also found time for some Bloomer Girls-related reading. Check it out: The Big Lead has a piece on hurdler Lolo Jones’s appearance on Jay Leno. Jones placed third in the U.S. hurdling qualifiers. So why didn’t first place Dawn [...]
