Women in the 2006 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: A Women's Sports Foundation Research Report Executive Summary
Published: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Take Action! Restore Olympic Opportunities for Women
Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2005
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken action to eliminate a net of 126 participation opportunities for women in the Olympic Games in two separate actions occurring after Athens:• Loss of 12 in women's double-trap shooting,• Loss of 118 in women's softball • Gain of four in cycling from the elimination of the women's 500m time trial (-12) and the addition of women's BMX (+16) All decisions concerning disciplines, events and quotas are taken up by the IOC Executive Board. The next meeting of the IOC Executive Board is in November 2005.These actions are in direct contradiction to the IOC's ...
IOSC/USOC Reform - Amateur and Olympic Sports: The Foundation Position
Published: Wednesday, July 19, 2000
1. Millions of people, especially young children are exposed to Olympic pictogram images on television, at Olympic venues, in publications and on licensed products sold worldwide. These images influence the beliefs and perceptions of millions of men and women about the participation and abilities of female athletes. The pictograms should equally represent both male and female athletes or be sufficiently generic to be gender neutral.2. Support the Ted Stevens Olympic and "Amateur Sports Act" requirement that the United States Olympic Committee and all national governing bodies provide standardized baseline data that is available to the public on a quadrennial basis ...
IOC World Conference on Women and Sport, 2000 Resolution of the 2nd IOC World Conference on Women and Sport
Published: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
The Second IOC World Conference on Women and Sport, which took place in Paris from 6 to 8 March 2000, concluded its work by adopting the following resolution:a) Recalling that the aim of the Olympic Movement is to build a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal without discrimination of any kind b) Welcoming the initiatives undertaken by the International Olympic Committee, the International Sports Federations, the National Olympic Committees to promote women in sport
c) Taking into consideration the work accomplished since the first IOC World Conference on Women and Sport held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1996 ...
Amateur Sports Act
By Nancy Hogshead
STATEMENT OF NANCY HOGSHEAD
Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States SenateAugust 11, 1994
I am Nancy Hogshead, a 3-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, a motivational speaker and author. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics I won more medals than any other swimmer -- three golds and one silver. I attended Duke University where I held or still hold virtually every school record in swimming. I am currently the President of the Women's Sports Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit national educational organization.
The Women's Sports FoundationThe Foundation works to end sex discrimination in sports by ...
Parallel but Not Equal: The Language Gap at the Olympic and Paralympic Games
As the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing quickly approach, it is appropriate to reflect upon the term “para” in the Paralympic Games. Specifically, it is fitting to further inquire as to why the Olympic and Paralympic Games are “parallel” to one another rather than two Games within one Olympic Movement. Within this one topic, several important questions emerge: Is parallel as equally empowering as the same? Why is the Olympian label not interchangeable? Does separate but equal actually imply not equal? What are the implications for using separate terminology for these high-level athletes? These questions are intended to ...
Olympic History: Still Left Behind
PARK CITY, UTAH (February 6, 2006) -- The best women's ski jumpers in the world will not be competing in the 2006 Torino Olympic Winter Games next week. Fourteen countries have more than 500 women jumpers participating in FIS Continental Cup competition and club ski jumping programs. The U.S. women's team has four of the top ten jumpers in FIS world standings. And yet Women's Nordic ski jumping remains the only winter sport without an event for female athletes on the Olympic program. Alissa Johnson (Park City, UT), 18, of the USA knows this all too well. Currently ranked 9th ...
The Real Culprit in the Cutting of Men's Olympic Sports
Why are the richest athletic programs cutting men's Olympic sports? They're pitting the "have-nots" against each other and unfairly blame Title IX. Donna Lopiano exposes the "Division I football/basketball arms race" as the true culprit of these program cuts.
What the Olympics Has Done for Women's Sports?
The Olympic Games have always played a critical role in the history of women's sports from both a positive and negative perspective. When women runners collapsed at the end of long distance races earlier this century, it set women's distance running back for decades. But, it was only fitting that the televising of the Olympic Games in the 1950's brought women's sports from obscurity into widespread public awareness through exposure of the extraordinary abilities of the first female athlete heros such as Donna deVarona, Olga Korbut and Wilma Rudolph. America went from no knowledge of women's participation to widespread public ...
Working to Play
Olympians and elite athletes are born with a special drive that propels them to greatness. However, drive must be coupled with opportunity to make a childhood dream a reality. Often times, the reality of financial challenges – heating bills, car payments, rent – prohibit those dreams from taking shape. Today's female greats are going to extraordinary lengths to push their bodies to the limit as they represent their sport and their country, yet they continue to struggle to make ends meet. Living the life of an elite athlete is like living two lives at once; it's every ounce of sweat ...