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Featured Articles of the month-It's August, and in honor of the Olympics, we here at Women's Sports Information thought we would highlight women athletes over 40 who are still competing at a high level. And check out the Fit Women Over 40 website. Dara Torres is now 41 and the mother of a 2-year-old daughter, Tessa Grace. She broke her first of three world records in 1982, at 14, and she has retired from swimming and come back three times. She is the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympics (despite sitting out 1996 and 2004). She’ll also be oldest female swimmer in the history of the Olympic games. Basketball Nancy Lieberman, former coach of the WNBA's Detroit Shock, 50, signs on and plays with the Shock, after one player out with an injury and 3 players suspended. Golfer Juli Inkster, competing in teh LPGA and currently 47 years old. Martina Navratilova, a month before her 50th birthday, in 2006, the tennis champion finished her career by winning her 59th Grand Slam title, teaming with Bob Bryan to take the mixed doubles championship at the U.S. Open. She is still competing.
General Articles For copyright reasons, WSI can only send you to their web sites. Be sure to come back to us. -Women/Entertainment-The attention that female athletes receive usually comes in the form of sexploitation, which is aimed at the male audience. Read this provocative article about women athletes in the media. -Coverage of Women’s Sports at Standstill -Women of Color in Sports: Double Jeopardy -Yoga for Healthy Blood Pressure -Mythbusting: What Every Female Athlete Should Know! Get the facts about the rights of female athletes, their interest in sports and why it's a great idea to play. -Twenty-Five Years After Title IX: Women Gain in Steps, Not Leaps -Will Olympic Softball end in Beijing in 2008, or will the dream continue for the up and coming softball stars? -Strength Training for women -Coaching With Respect-Embarrassing and demeaning students to make them play better just isn't good coaching, and there's more to being a good coach than just tallying up a win. -First Women to play College basketball- and it was on a men's team -The Diet Detective: Exercise myths and facts -Common Running Injuries-from Running 4 Women Website -A Thankful article on how far women's basketball has come. -Sex Roles Living the paradox: female athletes negotiate femininity and muscularity -Why All Women Should Exercise -Ten Reasons Women Should Lift Weights -Stress Fractures-what are they, how are they caused and how to treat them -Women's Bodies in Sports Ads-the article contends women in ads are posing not playing -Her Life Depends on it- This report points to physical activity and sport as fundamental solutions for many of the serious health and social problems faced by American girls. -Girls of Summer-read about the true League of their own-story by Ellen Klages -Redefining Aging-with an eye to sports and Physical Intelligence. -Tomboys were right-a poem by Mariah Burton Nelson -Athletics in the Lives of Women and Girls-(Empowering Women in Sports,The Empowering Women Series, No. 4; A Publication of the Feminist Majority Foundation)
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