Posts Tagged ‘Female Athletes’
Andreas/Heidi Kreiger
Anyone following track and field and/or anyone who has read this blog this week is aware of the gender suspicion drama surrounding 800m 2009 World Champion Caster Semenya.
Obviously her appearance contributes greatly to the speculation, but the South African team’s head coach does also; Ekkar Arbeit....
August 26th, 2009 | Female Athletes, News | Read More
Gender Drama on the Track
So – are her looks so masculine as to warrant this attention?
You decide:
18 year old Caster Semenya’s gold medal in tonight’s 800m race at the World Championships in Berlin should have been a proud moment of the South African’s life – but instead it is marred with controversy...
August 19th, 2009 | Female Athletes | Read More
Jamaica Dominates Again…
At the World Championships being held this week Jamaican sprinters continued their dominance on the track. Super sprinter Usain Bolt broke his own world record, and on the female side the Jamaican women went 1st and 2nd, not making a clean sweep as they did at the
August 17th, 2009 | Female Athletes, Video | Read More
Bille Jean King Honored
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor a civilian can receive in the U.S.A. Among the 16 people who recently received the prestigious award from President Barack Obama was tennis legend Billie Jean King.
In her career, King won 39 grand slam titles and is widely known for the “The...
August 13th, 2009 | Female Athletes | Read More
Boxing Champ = Tea Server
There is a flurry of allegations of sexism in India over the case of 2006 World Boxing Championship bronze medalist and Indian National boxing champ Renu Gora. Renu, who is at a sports institute studying to be a coach, is apparently serving tea and washing dishes.
A Hindustan Times report claims that...
July 28th, 2009 | Female Athletes | Read More
Transgender Golfer
Miane Bagger is the first male-to-female transgender golfer to play professionally.
She was born a male in Denmark in 1966, and emigrated to Australia in 1979, where she presently splits her time between Adelaide and Perth.
As the Australian Amateur Golf Association had no existing rulings againest...
July 16th, 2009 | Female Athletes | Read More
Tennis Meets Sports Illustrated
Tennis players Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova and Tatiana Golovin posed for the swimsuit edition of the 2009 American Sports Illustrated magazine shot in the Dominican Republic.
Tatiana Golovin, 21, is Russian and her highest singles ranking to date is 12 and she reached the U.S. Open quarter-finals...
June 19th, 2009 | News | Read More
Serena Not So Serene
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has accused her Spanish opponent Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of cheating at the French Open this past weekend.
Quote from Times Online:
Controversy came on the pivotal point in the fifth game of the first set. Martinez Sanchez sent a backhand drop shot over the net and...
June 1st, 2009 | News | Read More
7 Foot 2″ Margo Dydek
35 year old Polish basketball player Małgorzata Dydek known as Margo Dydek in the United States, is 7′2″ tall, making her the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world.
She currently plays the center position for the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA, after being...
May 20th, 2009 | News | Read More
“I’m The Best in The World”
Serena Williams didn’t shy away from modestly and broke it right down: she says she’s No. 1 even though the women’s tennis rankings indicate otherwise. Dinara Safina of Russia overtook Williams in the rankings two weeks ago.
We all know who the real number one is,” Williams told...
May 5th, 2009 | News | Read More
Lokelanikuu’leimakamae
Triathlete Lokelani McMichael, whose real name is Lokelanikuu’leimakamae according to wikipedia, does dual duty as an athlete and model.
The Hawaii native entered her first Ironman triathlon in 1995. She was 18 years old, and she beat out about 48,000 people to become eligible for one of the 2,000...
April 9th, 2009 | News | Read More
Russian Sisters – or Brothers?
Rather infamous in Olympic history are two sisters: Tamara and Irena Press of the former U.S.S.R.
It was said of both sisters that their gender could not be determined. Some thought they were men disguised as women, they might be hermaphrodites, and some thought they had used so many male hormones [steroids]...
March 25th, 2009 | News | Read More
Gender Drama: Tennis Player Sarah Gronert
22 year old German tennis player Sarah Gronert has stirred up some controversy due to her gender; she was born with both male and female genitalia, but after undergoing surgery to remove her male genitalia, she’s medically certified as female.
Having won two of the nine tournaments she’s entered...
March 20th, 2009 | News | Read More
First Woman to Swim Across the Atlantic
Jennifer Figge became the first woman to swim across the Atlantic, finishing this month. From Aspen, Colorado the mother of one swam in a shark cage which she described as “my playpen. It’s like a big french fry basket.”
Photos and text from the Associated Press: Reaching a beach in Trinidad,...
February 9th, 2009 | News | Read More
Serena Williams wins the Australia Open
Tennis star Serena Williams won the 2009 Australian Open giving her 10 all time Grand Slam wins and also making her the #1 ranked female tennis player. Williams is still somewhat far away from the women’s record for Grand Slam singles titles as Margaret Court Smith had 24 and Steffi Graf 22.
She and...
February 1st, 2009 | News | Read More
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Female Bodybuilder Kim Chizevsky Profile
November 20, 2009 10:11
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Female Bodybuilder Yvette Bova Biography
November 20, 2009 06:11
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Female Bodybuilder Valentina Chepiga Profile
November 19, 2009 10:11
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Female Bodybuilder Andrulla Blanchette Biography
November 19, 2009 06:11
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WNBF World Championship Results
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