Tag Archives: Womens

A decade ago, women or non-binary people were not always welcome or able to reach their full potential as skaters. In just under 10 years however, skateboarding is currently undergoing radical change. Sydney will host a Street League Skateboarding tournament this weekend, providing a high profile opportunity for…

She hit five sixes and 20 fours, with Jonassen, Tahlia McGrath and Georgia Wareham and Darcie Brown all going at more than 10 an over. Some 11 of her fours and three of her sixes came between backward point and cover, as Australia opted not to put a fielder in …

The biggest contingent of Matildas stars ever to play in England’s Women’s Super League have launched their season with mixed results — and with the biggest name of all, Sam Kerr, left having to sit out the opening day with injury. Key points: Sam Kerr is yet to fully recover from …

“She’s done a tremendous job,” Hasler says. “She handles the responsibility really well. She has accountability, too because she was a real pioneer. She did a lot [for women’s rugby league] in its infancy. She’s a bit of a legend. Women’s rugby league has just become such a wonderful entity …

The Australian women’s cricket team are set to play their first international matches on home soil since winning their sixth T20 World Cup, retaining the Ashes for a fifth straight series and breaking an eight-year drought in the Test format. The group’s sustained success as the world number one team …

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa has taken more than two minutes off the women’s marathon world record, with a remarkable victory in the Berlin Marathon where she made the most of a flat course and favourable weather conditions. Key points: A former 800m runner, Assefa only took up marathon racing last year …

In the latest twist to the Spanish soccer crisis, the country’s World Cup-winning players started reporting to training camp on Tuesday despite not wanting to be called up for the national team while fighting for changes in the soccer federation. Key points: Spanish football stars are in the midst of …

Strip searches require a prisoner to remove all of their clothes but are different to more invasive body-cavity searches. The review found most strip searches were routine, such as before and after visits, and not related to any suspicions the women were carrying drugs or dangerous items. But the review …

Australian wheelchair racing superstar Madison de Rozario has powered to victory in her debut outing at the Sydney Marathon. Sydney Marathon Winners Men’s race Othmane El Goumri (MOR): 2:08:20 Women’s race Betsy Saina (USA): 2:26:47 Wheelchair Marathon men’s race Joshua Cassidy (CAN): 1:41:52 Wheelchair Marathon Women’s…

Maral Esfand is playing the piano, practising an age-old Persian romance song with her bandmate in her apartment. While her hands are tapping the keys in Sydney, her heart lingers back to her home country of Iran. “I think everything and everyone in Iran or every Persian person out of …

This story contains allegations of sexual assault. The crisis within Spanish football deepened Friday as the women’s World Cup winners demanded more heads roll at its scandal-hit RFEF federation whose disgraced ex-boss appeared in court on sexual assault charges. Just hours after Luis Rubiales was hit with a restraining order …

Yellow card! Did the Frenchman protest? He did not. On his way off the field he went straight to the felled halfback, shook his hand and embraced him – an embrace that was returned in kind. Sorry. No hard feelings. See you in 10 minutes. Lovely! How the mighty have …

Shortly before the roster was due to be announced for the Spanish women’s first international soccer match since their World Cup victory, the Royal Spanish Football Association postponed the event until further notice. It became clear why five minutes later, when Spain’s star players made public a list of demands …

The players said through their FUTRPO union on August 25 that they would not return to play for Spain “if the present leadership continues” and asked for “real structural changes that help the national team continue to grow.” Loading Last year, 15 players similarly rebelled, asking for more a more …

Kyra Cooney-Cross’s impressive showing at the World Cup has earned the Matildas midfielder a dream move to Arsenal.  Key points: Kyra Cooney-Cross played all but four minutes of Australia’s World Cup matches She made her A-League debut as a 15-year-old for Melbourne Victory Cooney-Cross joins Matildas Steph Catley…

London: Spanish football federation chief Luis Rubiales, engulfed in a scandal over allegations he gave an unsolicited kiss to a player on the Women’s World Cup team last month, said on Sunday he had resigned from his position as president. Rubiales announced his resignation in a statement in which he …