Now, Douglas is gearing up to return for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. The post Black Female Gymnasts Who Soar In the Olympics and Beyond appeared first on 21Ninety.

Because of worldwide television coverage throughout the 1960 Olympics, Rudolph gained international recognition and became an iconic figure for Black and female athletes. During the peak of the ...

let black women be silly and have fun" Thomas reacting during the Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 14 - (Source: Getty) Gabby Thomas began competing on the track at an early age. Balancing a medical ...

The change affects women with atypical genetics who have been able to compete if they suppressed their testosterone levels.

Black women athletes continue to have an incredible impact in sports. Yet, they are treated far differently than their white ...

Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe has been elected as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, emerging from a contentious seven-candidate race Thursday to take hold of one of ...

Mabel Staton, the Black ... Helsinki Olympics, died Thursday. She was 92. Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's ...

World Athletics has announced that it will begin genetic testing for all female track and field athletes ... The new policy could have an impact on Olympic athletes in the near future.