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People gather at a Jolene Jolene event to watch USA women’s volleyball during the 2024 Olympic games. (Provided by Jolene Jolene)

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Jolene Jolene will bring Atlanta its first women’s sports bar

Chelsea Fishman wants women’s sports to be taken more seriously. Fishman took what she learned at an equality summit in Australia during the FIFA Women’s World Cup last year to heart and will open Atlanta’s first women’s sports bar called Jolene Jolene next year.

 

August 08, 2024
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  • Beth McKibben
Girl soccer team playing. (Pexels)

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State Senate forms committee to protect women’s sports

A newly formed state Senate committee will look to ensure that female athletes have the right to participate on an even basis with their males counterparts.

August 02, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Lauren Fleshman's memoir, <em>Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World,</em> is a memoir and a critique of how the sports world treats female athletes.

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The sports world is still built for men. This elite runner wants to change that

Champion distance runner Lauren Fleshman says too many coaches assume — falsely — that what works for male athletes also benefits female athletes. Her memoir is Good for a Girl.

January 10, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
U.S. center Lusia Harris finishes a basket in a game against Bulgaria during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

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Remembering legend Lusia Harris, the only woman to be officially drafted by the NBA

Harris scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history and was the first Black woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, among other accolades. She turned the NBA down in 1977.

January 19, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Allyson Felix and Quanera Hayes celebrate with their children after placing second and first respectively in the women's 400-meter final at U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in June in Eugene, Ore.

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Both U.S. Women Competing In The Olympic 400-Meter Final Are Moms

Allyson Felix and Quanera Hayes have spoken out about the joys of motherhood and the obstacles that female athletes face that men don't.

August 06, 2021
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  • Merrit Kennedy
Annie Kunz in the women's heptathlon 100-meter hurdles during the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., in June. Building her training regimen around recent findings from sex-specific sports medicine research has made a difference in her performance, says Kunz, who is competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Sports Science Is Changing How Female Olympians Train. It Could Help You, Too

U.S. Olympic heptathlete Annie Kunz says tracking her monthly cycles and learning she needs to eat more and get more naps when she's fatigued has already improved her athletic performance.

August 03, 2021
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  • Maggie Mertens
Field hockey star Sarita Bhise (right) with her mother (far left) and maternal aunt, cleaning onions they've harvested on the family farm.

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Why A Field Hockey Champ In India Is Now Harvesting Onions And Herding Goats

Young female athletes benefited from an increase in government support in recent years. The pandemic has put an end to that.

December 31, 2020
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  • Pooja Bhula

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