If you’re on the hunt for a really good WordPress theme that won’t cost you anything and is ideal for either a sports or a fitness website, then… …we’d probably have a lot to talk about. In between sets, of course. 💪 As someone who’s been working out since the age of 15 and even […]
We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women’s inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resulted in the first policies requiring sex testing. Tested is a six-part series, you […]
New from NPR’s Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That’s the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announced new regulations that mean some women can’t compete in the female category unless […]
In 1966, the governing body of the Olympic track and field event started mandatory examinations of all women athletes. These inspections would come to be known as “nude parades,” and if you were a woman who refused the test, you couldn’t compete. We’re going back almost a century to the first time women were allowed […]