TRACK CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Anna Meares (AUS) defends her Keirin Title; Sets new World Record
Anna Meares wins Keirin Championship
Track Cycling World Championship: Following the day she set a world record, Meares wins a second Keirin Championship title.
2012, Melbourne, Australia, Track Cycling World Championship, after setting a new record in the 200m sprints, Anna now claims the 500m Time Trial title with a record at 33.01 seconds.
2012, Melbourne, Australia, Track [...]
Asjha Jones Named To 2012 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 23, 2012) – With the addition of 2010 FIBA World Championship gold medalist Asjha Jones (Connecticut Sun), the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team was finalized today by USA Basketball. Jones, who joins the 11 previously announced team members, was selected by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Player Selection Committee, [...]
USA BOXING: Six Gold Medals for USA Women in Continental Championships
The United States won six gold medals Saturday night in the Women’s Continental Championships in Cornwall, Ontario. Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old middleweight from Flint, Mich., knocked off three-time world champion Mary Spencer from Canada 24-17 in the final. The bout was just the second of Shields’ international career. The Outstanding Boxer [...]
Firehiwot Dado (ETH) Sets Course Record, Wins New York City Half-Marathon
Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia set a course record of 1:08:35 with her victory in the NYC Half-Marathon Women’s race, passing New Zealand’s Kim Smith (second in 1:08:43) in the final stages. American Olympic hopeful Kara Goucher finished 3rd (1:09:12). Dado’s time breaks the course record set last year by Kenya’s Caroline Rotich (1:08:52).
“This race [...]
Gail Devers, Dawn Staley & Anne Donovan part of an impressive List of Nominees for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame
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Tracie Ruiz Conforto
Sharon Hedrick
Kristine Lilly
Lisa Fernandez
Dawn Staley
The U.S. Olympic Committee and Allstate Insurance Company (NYSE: ALL) today announced the list of nominees eligible for induction into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame presented by Allstate and invited fans to start voting for those athletes and teams they feel are most deserving of a spot [...]
WOMEN’S SKI JUMPING: Sarah Hendrickson clutches crystal globe as World Cup campaign ends
U.S. team ends inaugural season as dominant, top-ranked squad
OSLO, Norway (March 9) — The last time Sarah Hendrickson and her teammates ski jumped on the Midstubakken hill in Oslo, Norway, they had a job to do. This time, it was purely for joy.
American Sarah Hendrickson, having already clinched the inaugural World Cup overall title last [...]
Lindsey Vonn, Katie Uhlaender & Miranda Leek Named U.S. Olympic Committee’s February Athletes of Month
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A historic showing at the 2012 World Championships guided Skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) to Athlete of the Month honors. Uhlaender was crowned the 2012 women’s skeleton world champion on Feb. 24, continuing the U.S.’s dominant performance at the championships. The two-time Olympian and two-time world cup champion finally added [...]
VIDEO: U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Takes Third Place at 2012 Algarve Cup with 4-0 Win Against Sweden
The U.S. WNT defeated Sweden 4-0 on a hat trick from Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach’s 134th career goal to take third place in the 2012 Algarve Cup.
The U.S. WNT captured third place at the 2012 Algarve Cup with a 4-0 victory against Sweden. Alex Morgan registered her first career hat [...]
WEIGHTLIFTING: 2012 Super heavyweights Sarah Robles & Holley Mangold London Bound | News | Team USA
COLUMBUS, OH — Team USA is sending in the heavies. The super heavyweights, to be exact.
Sarah Robles and Holley Mangold, who both compete in the women’s 75+-kilogram weightlifting class, both lifted more than a quarter-ton overhead en route to representing the U.S. at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The two women dominated the 2012 U.S. Weightlifting [...]
GYMNASTICS: Should Gabrielle Douglas have won American Cup – from Universal Sports
2012, New York, New York, USA, AT&T American Cup Gymnastics, Douglas (USA) was an extra invite, who’s score didn’t count, too bad since she out scored the winner by .267. (Watch the full event at UniversalSports.com)
U.S. alternate Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, who performed exhibition routines, which did not [...]