Tag: Olympics
Women’s college basketball’s best performance of 2022: Paige Bueckers and UConn’s epic win over NC State
In some ways, UConn has played a lot of games similar to the one on March 28, 2022, when the Huskies battled NC State...
Dawn Staley, advocate and champion with no ceiling: Our Women’s College Basketball Person of the Year
In December, The Athletic will be highlighting the coaches, athletes and other figures who made the biggest impact in the U.S. sports we cover, as...
The Athletic’s Sportspersons of the Year: Athletes and coaches who defined 2022
Who made the biggest impact in their area of the sports world in 2022?We posed this question to our U.S.-based writers and editors who...
Serena Williams – analysing the barely believable data that explains her genius
So that’s it.After 23 grand-slam titles, more than a thousand matches, and innumerable GOAT debates, Serena Williams’ professional tennis career is over.It wasn’t the...
U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, Olympian and world bronze medalist, announces retirement at 16
American women’s figure skating star Alysa Liu is retiring from the sport, she announced Saturday. Liu, who made her international senior debut last summer,...
