This Week's Women's Sports Recap
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Parity athletes Emma Schieck, Kaleo Maclay and unbeaten USA top China 3-1 in WPV Super 6 showdown.
Paralympic Games rivals United States and China clashed on Day 3 of the 2023 WPV Women’s Super 6 at Parc des Sports de Vandoeuvre in Nancy, France. This encounter, which ended with USA winning 3-1 (23-25, 25-18, 25-19, 25-19), marked their first meeting since the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, where USA clinched the gold medal by defeating China.
China initiated the match with intensity, scoring the first two points, but USA responded with a five-point streak that established a 5-2 lead. The run was interrupted by a critical block from China’s Tang Xuemei, before Heather Erickson’s powerful spikes propelled USA into another offensive surge. China, showing resilience, managed to close the gap and eventually tied the score at 14-all. The set saw multiple ties, culminating in a 23-all deadlock. A decisive spike by Zhang Lijun and a net error by Katherine Bridge handed China a hard-fought 25-23 victory in the opening set.
Denmark men’s national soccer team refuse pay rise and demand equal pay for women’s team.
Players from Denmark’s men’s national soccer team have refused a pay raise and accepted a 15 per cent pay cut in their insurance coverage to allow their female counterparts in the women’s national team to receive equal pay and a 50 per cent raise in their insurance coverage.
In what has been described as an “extraordinary step” for gender equality in the sport, the new deal with the Danish Football Association will come into play once the European Championship in Germany concludes in July. The four-year agreement also includes a proposal to create a new “clubhouse” for all national teams, including men, women and youth teams.?
Michael Sahl Hansen, director of Denmark’s players’ union, Spillerforeningen, described the new deal as “an extraordinary step to help improve the conditions of the women’s national teams.”
Gretchen Walsh breaks world record, qualifies for US Olympic Team.
One night, she set a world record. The next, she accomplished her dream.
University of Virginia rising senior Gretchen Walsh had a weekend to remember at the United States Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis.
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Walsh, in a Saturday semifinal heat, swam the 100-meter butterfly race in a world-record time of 55.18 seconds. She became the first competitor to set a world record at the U.S. trials since 2008.
Walsh then continued her dominance in the event Sunday, winning the championship race and earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team, which competes later this summer in Paris.
Walsh, the reigning collegiate national women’s swimmer of the year and a centerpiece of three of UVA’s four straight NCAA title teams, is an Olympian for the first time in her career.?
Three-time gold medalist Misty May-Treanor to call beach volleyball at 2024 Paris Olympics.
Misty May-Treanor, a three-time gold-medalist in women's beach volleyball alongside partner Kerry Walsh Jennings, will make her Olympics broadcasting debut as an analyst on NBC properties for beach volleyball in Paris, NBCUniversal said Wednesday.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings together won three consecutive gold medals (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012) and at one point won 21 straight Olympic matches while losing just a single set. In 2007-08, they won 112 consecutive matches.
US adults are 7x more likely to name Simone Biles as the 'face of the Olympics' than LeBron James.
You heard it first: U.S. adults’ choice for the face of the #paris2024 Olympics is Simone Biles.