100 Ways Women Can Make Olympic and Paralympic History (# 61-70)

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As part of the countdown to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, On Her Turf is compiling a list of 100 ways women can make history at this summer’s Games. This is the fourth article in the series. If you missed the first three, you can find them here: N ° 71-80 | No. 81-90 | No. 91-100

# 70: In Tokyo, the US women’s basketball team will be aiming for a seventh consecutive Olympic gold, a streak that began in 1996. In addition to the gold-medal streak, the US women have not not lost an Olympic match since 1992..

# 69: Tokyo will host the Olympic debut of 3 × 3 basketball, which features 10-minute matches and a 12-minute shot clock. To compete in Tokyo, the American women will have to step out of the “Group of Death” in the last-ditch Olympic qualifying tournament later this month.

# 68: Kendall Gretsch is already a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in Nordic skiing, but she will be looking to make her summer debut in paratriathlon. Gretsch is a three-time world champion in the sport, but her ranking was not included when the triathlon made its Paralympic debut in 2016.

# 67: The US women’s wheelchair basketball team have won gold at three of the last four Paralympic Games. In Tokyo, the team will try to defend their Paralympic title from 2016.

# 66: At 40, Sue Bird could become the oldest basketball player to win an Olympic medal. (Also in Tokyo, Bird and Diana Taurasi could become the first basketball players to win five Olympic gold medals.)

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# 65: After a meteoric start to the 2021 season, Sha’Carri Richardson could become the first American to win gold in the 100m in 25 years. Last month, Richardson clocked 10.72 seconds to become the sixth-fastest woman to run the event.

# 64: The South Korean women’s archery team has one of the most impressive heats of all the team events. Since archery introduced a women’s team competition in 1988, South Korea has won gold every time (eight consecutive gold medals).

# 63: Boxing – the most recent Olympic sport to include women – added two more women’s weight classes for Tokyo, bringing the total number of women’s events to five.

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# 62: After spending nearly 10 months hospitalized with leukemia in 2019, the Japanese swimmer Ikee rikako qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in April. The 2016 Olympian is expected to be one of the host nation’s biggest stars.

# 61: The U.S. diving team hasn’t won an individual Olympic medal in the women’s springboard since 1988. After winning silver in the World Cup event earlier this month, Sarah bacon seems on track to end this drought.

The NBC Olympics research team contributed to this report.





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