Female athletes

Out of Team USA’s 113 total medals, women earned 66, men earned 41, and six were from mixed events.

News4’s Julie Carey spoke to Tynita Butts and her high school coach who was very proud of the Olympian who made the U.S. team after trying three times.

Allyson Felix isn’t the only mom competing in the Tokyo Olympics.

Watch a video preview of episode 4 of the sports podcast My New Favorite Olympian with beach volleyball player Alix Klineman. Subscribe and listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app.

For elite athletes, understanding your body is part of the job. But for menstruating athletes, that knowledge often stops at how periods and hormonal cycles affect athletic performance. That’s why beach volleyball star and Olympian Alix Klineman is doing all she can to destigmatize conversations about women’s hormones and health.

In Episode 4 of the sports podcast “My New Favorite Olympian,” we interview volleyball star Alix Klineman about women’s health, hormones and why it’s important to destigmatize periods.

German gymnasts like Kim Bui (pictured) wore full-body suits in a recent competition to call attention to the sexualization of female gymnasts. Dominique Dawes, a 4-time U.S. medal winner, agrees. “We need to do what’s right for the next generation of gymnasts…making sure the sport of gymnastics is not sexualized.”

It may be hard to believe today, but women weren’t even allowed to compete in the Olympic Games until 1900, four years after the first events took place. And even then only 22 out of 997 competitors were women. Flash forward to 2021 and this summer, for the first time ever, half of the postponed Tokyo 2020 athletes will be...

Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for California governor, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports at school

A shortform podcast called “Recognize” aims to educate listeners about accomplished female athletes and provide more media coverage of women’s sports.