#Olympics2012: Ladies Take London
The 2012 Summer Olympics kick off on July 27 in London, and women are representing like never before. This is the first Olympics where every competing country is sending female athletes to the games. PLUS, it’s the first time the Olympics will feature a women’s boxing competition.
Nineteen-year-old Sarah Attar is a track and field competitor from Saudi Arabia, a country who will be sending women to the games for the first time ever. Here’s what she says about her participation in this year’s games:
“I definitely think that my participation in this Olympic games can increase women’s participation in sports in general. I can only hope for the best for them and that we can really get some good strides going for women in the Olympics further and just in sports in general.”
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Here’s what twenty-eight year-old American boxer Queen Underwood said through tears upon learning she’d be competing in London:
“I’m just so happy right now. I’ve been waiting for this second chance and it means a lot to be able to go to the Olympics…All I heard was welcome to the Olympic Team and I just couldn’t control my emotions. I am just happy and thrilled that they chose me. This is just awesome.”
Word.
What sport are you looking forward to watching most?
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With record female participation , what a shame it is that these games have dropped the only women's only team sport - softball -
Hey there,
Here's the other side of things: great article from The Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/for-female-olympians-its-1960-all-over-again/article4445834/ -
I'm with you LisaG women's soccer is great. So is volleyball. The U.S.A. v China in 1984 was epic!
But I gotta say, given the serious issues with brain damage in boxing I'd rather this were the first Olympics without any boxers than the first Olympics with female boxers. -
I’ve always been more into gymnastics myself. Guess it’s because I practiced it for a couple of years when I was little, or maybe because my country has always had great gymnasts whom I could look up to. Especially women! I sometimes skip the men ones, but I always watch the women ones. This weekend are the qualifications and I couldn’t be more excited! Or nervous. (Saturday – men; Sunday - women) I’m also looking forward to seeing the athletics, swimming, and volleyball. -
I am all about US Women's Soccer! Those girls have been my heros since I started playing soccer in the third grade. I still remember watching Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers and all the rest of the national team win the 1999 World Cup on US soil! Over the years, this team has has done so much to develop an interest and passion for women's soccer in this country. They've represented the USA in a way that should make us all proud and I can't wait to see what they do in this London Olympics!
