by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
The day of the women’s foil individual gold medal bout, Lauren Scruggs spent an hour lying down in her room, thinking about what she was about to do and the road to get there.Going into the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the 21-year-old from Queens wasn’t projected to...
by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone may only have just turned 25, but standing on the start line at the Olympic stadium is nothing new for her. The New Jersey native—who’s already broken five world records—is returning for her third Olympic Games in Paris with hopes of adding...
by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | Life / Sports
But college wasn’t all studying for Thomas—it’s also where her track career began in earnest. According to her official Olympics profile, she won a whopping 22 conference titles in six different track events while she was a student and became the first NCAA sprint...
by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
If you’ve been tuning in to events like the pole vault, steeplechase, or 100-meter dash at the Paris Games, you might’ve noticed something a little…different about the Olympic track. And, no, your TV’s display isn’t glitching: The surface really is purple.Well, to be...
by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
In the months leading up to the Paris Games, one of the biggest questions wasn’t only which athletes would be competing, but whether the Seine river would end up being safe enough to host them for some of the swimming events.As the Games progressed, speculation only...
by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
What happens when the sport you love, the one you have spent your entire life dedicated to, decides you are no longer eligible to compete? That is the reality that many trans women athletes across a variety of sports are currently living, one where their dreams of...