Pregnancy and sports a challenging combination for female professional athletes
Recent allegations by WNBA player Dearica Hamby that her coach harassed her for being pregnant have shined a renewed spotlight on one of the biggest challenges that female professional athletes face.
Salazar's lifetime ban upheld by SafeSport Center
Track coach Alberto Salazarโs appeal of his lifetime ban for sexual misconduct was rejected by the U.S. Center for SafeSport in the latest, and possibly final, defeat of his once-storied career.
Changing the Games: These stories of Olympic moms transcend sports; will make you feel things
Itโs one thing to be a new mom: Unpredictable, frazzled, busy; youโre trying to get to know your baby, heal your body and maybe even breastfeed, which can be unfamiliar and challenging, especially at first.
Podcast: Silver medalist Hannah Roberts discusses gender discrepancies in BMX
This episode of On Her Turf included a conversation with BMX silver medalist Hannah Brown and a discussion about Olympians who simultaneously juggle motherhood.
Most athletes are true to word in dates with drug testers
World champion Coleman and Salwa Eid Naser could miss the Tokyo Games for what are known in the anti-doping world as whereabouts failures. Since early 2001, when the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's whereabouts system began, there have been 21 whereabouts sanctions out of 175,000 completed tests. Coleman's latest case brought a flurry of Monday morning quarterbacking from the track world, much of it on social media. Set a recurring daily alarm 15 minutes before your hour window. It shows theyre doing their job.The whereabouts system came under a uniform global protocol in 2009.