Tag: Simone Biles
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The biggest winner in the Paris Olympics? The Sisterhood | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At the first modern Olympiad in Greece in 1896, an athletic woman from Syros seeking to improve her fortunes walked 6 miles to Athens in hopes of competing in the marathon. But women were barred from those first Olympics because Pierre de Coubertin, their founder,…
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Meet the new Miss Americas: U.S. women took the Olympic games by storm this year | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than any single competition, an Olympic ad I saw the other day sums up what the Tokyo Olympics were all about for the U.S. The ad opens up to the strains of “There She is, Miss America,” the beauty pageant song, as a women…