Gabby Douglas - Uneven Bars - 2012 Olympics - Day 4
Rock it.
pure beauty!
Sine Qua Non
BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. So by now we know that U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps has broken the all-time Olympics record for most medals ever, with 19 (as of yesterday — Phelps has three more events to go at the summer games in London). But many members of the media failed to point out exactly whose record Phelps had broken: it belonged to Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina, who won 18 medals between 1956 and 1964. She was in attendance during Phelps’s record-smashing performance on Tuesday. ”Latynina joked in recent weeks that it was time for a man to be able to do what a woman had done long ago,” wrote the New York Times. ”And that it was too bad Phelps was not Russian.” (Photo: AP via the Times)
Saudi Arabia: Let Women Play in the 2012 London Olympics →
Donate your Facebook status for a day.
The Olympics launch in a month and Saudi Arabia stands alone in the world banning women from sport. By refusing to allow women on their national team, Saudi Arabia violates the Olympic Charter. London 2012: Don’t let Saudi Arabia play unless their women can!
Saudi Arabia, stop trying to make the Middle East look bad.
Cholitas Luchadores: Bolivias Female Wrestlers.
The fighting cholitas see themselves as symbols of strength: Their opponents include bigotry and sexism. “My goal,” says one fighter, “is to lift up indigenous women, who have been treated with contempt.”
“We fighters carry within us a kind of fire that nothing can quench.”
