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Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc: How US figure skaters forged their own paths in a sport where stereotypes run deep
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"For a long time, Timothy and I didn't see ourselves represented, and so we didn't quite feel like we belonged," Ashley Cain-Gribble tells CNN Sport. "And for a long time, people had things to say about us. Even when we teamed up, they had a lot of things to say about my body, or about Timothy's sexuality. People still will make those comments."
Powerlifter Karenjeet Kaur Bains ‘found a love for being strong.’ Now she wants to inspire more women to take up strength sports
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Karenjeet Kaur Bains says it is her "ultimate dream" to be the first Sikh female world champion, as well as to use her platform to inspire other girls to take up the sport. "Strength sport is often such a male-dominated sport," she tells CNN.
Marylebone Cricket Club, the guardian of the Laws of the game, has amended to use the gender-neutral term "batter" rather than "batsman." The change is being made to "reinforce cricket's status as an inclusive game for all" in a statement on its website.
How Maya Gabeira overcame a life-threatening accident to surf two record-breaking waves
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"I admired the guys and the boys that would be out there on big days, I admired their bravery and I thought that was something I wanted to see portrayed in women more. I think that unconsciously really drove me ... I felt there needed to be a woman doing that. I wanted to be that person."
Ishita Malaviya, India’s first professional female surfer, is changing her country’s perception of the ocean
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"I remember smiling on my first wave, all the way to shore and all the way back home from the beach."
Remembering the Original 9, the pioneers of women’s tennis who allowed future generations to live their dream
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A group of players, known as the Original 9, laid the foundations for the women's game as we know it, paving the way for the WTA Tour that governs the women's game today.
Trailblazing Paralympian Margaret Maughan dies aged 91
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Margaret Maughan, Great Britain's first Paralympic champion, has died at the age of 91. Maughan won the landmark gold medal in archery at the 1960 Paralympics in Rome and went on to compete at five more Games. She was a strong advocate for the Paralympic movement and lit the cauldron during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics in London.
Claressa Shields: Boxing champion on Flint, food, and being the ‘greatest woman’
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"I love boxing, I love fighting, I love hurting people inside the ring. That's what I love to do and when I first started boxing, they were saying that women can't talk like that," she says.
Blacks Ferns crowned Team of the Year in rugby first
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For the first time ever, a women's team has been crowned team of the year at the World Rugby Awards. The New Zealand men's side have picked up the award for the past seven years, but it was the All Blacks' female counterparts, the Black Ferns, who capped off their World Cup-winning year with yet more silverware. "The team has just been on an absolute high this year," Portia Woodman, who was also crowned women's Player of the Year, told CNN at the awards ceremony in Monaco on Sunday. "More people are recognizing women's rugby players in New Zealand. You get more people coming up to you, saying 'Oh, we watched your game. It was an awesome final, congratulations.' We never had that before.