Has watching the Paris Olympics and the US Open gotten you hyped about tennis and itching to pick up a racquet? The cute outfits, the workout you get during the match…what’s not to, um, love? But getting out on the court can be intimidating if you’re new to the sport. We chatted up tennis coaches […]
Few athletes achieved more at the Paris Games than swimmer Katie Ledecky. She won four medals, including gold in the 1500-meter freestyle in a new Olympic record of 15:30.02. In the process, she became the most decorated female Olympian ever to compete for Team USA, with 14 total medals to her name. But the most […]
For Ali Truwit, the past 16 months have been a story of trauma, resilience, and—as of last night—triumph. In May 2023, just days after she’d graduated from Yale, the former competitive Division I swimmer was attacked by a shark while snorkeling off the coast of Turks and Caicos. Truwit fought off the animal, which bit […]
For British triathlete Lauren Steadman, clinching a spot on the podium at the 2024 Paralympic Games was especially meaningful: The bronze medalist lives with long COVID, which made her path to Paris particularly challenging. In March, the 31-year-old got sick with COVID while traveling home from a canceled race in Abu Dhabi. The virus severely […]
When Femita Ayanbeku lined up for the 100 meters at the 2024 US Paralympic Team Trials for Track & Field in July, she had a number in mind: 13.01 seconds. That mark, she knew, would assure her a spot on the Paralympic team headed to Paris. She’d run faster in the past. In fact, three […]
Though there’s been a bunch of recent, exciting progress made in narrowing the gender equity gap in sports, there’s still much more work to be done. And the Paralympic women’s cycling course at the 2024 Paris Games is one prime example of where parity continues to fall short—literally. The course for the women’s C5 road […]
You’re all geared up to watch the 2024 Paralympic Games. But as you flick on an event, you can’t help but wonder: Why are there 16 different men’s 100-meter races on the track and seven different groups of women swimming the 400-meter freestyle in the pool?! And what’s with all those letters and numbers by […]
On the first day of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, Sarah Adam etched her name in the history books: She became the first American woman ever to score a goal in wheelchair rugby at the Paralympics. Adam ultimately put up six tries in 16 minutes on the court to help Team USA with a […]
For Valentina Petrillo, competing in the 2024 Paris Paralympics is monumental on multiple counts. First, there’s the fact that the Italian track athlete initially drew inspiration for this feat over four decades ago: During the 1980 Moscow Olympics, young Petrillo watched on TV as the Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea clinch gold in the 200 meters, […]
Three years ago, Zakia Khudadadi was hiding from the Taliban, training in secret in her back garden at home in Afghanistan. Today, she is a bronze medalist and just made history as the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal at the Paralympics. On Thursday at the Grand Palais in Paris, […]