Month: November 2024

Elaine Thompson-Herah knew she had it won, the 100-m race on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. So the defending 100-m Olympic champion pointed at the scoreboard before the finish, just like fellow Jamaican, Usain Bolt, did at the 2008 Beijing Games. Her final time in the race was 10.61 seconds, a new Olympic record, breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 10.62 mark from the 1988 Olympics.

It was the second-fastest 100-m time in history. If she hadn’t pointed, could Thompson-Herah have broken Flo-Jo’s world record mark, 10.49 seconds, that was also set in 1988?

“Most definitely, if I wasn’t celebrating,” Thompson-Herah said after the race.

Did she regret it at all?

“No. No. No. No.,” said Thompson-Hearh, the Jamaican flag still draped over her shoulder from her victory lap.

A gold medal and Olympic record was good enough; and it was a celebration to remember.

Jamaica swept the 100-m race on Saturday, further cementing the island nation’s sprinting dominance; behind Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce took second, running 10.74 seconds, while Shericka Jackson took bro…

After months of campaigning by sporting organizations, France has not reversed its decision to ban French athletes who observe the hijab from participating in the summer Olympics; a move that human rights organizations say is, at best, a contradiction of the nation’s pledge to deliver the first gender-equal games, and at worst, a breach of international human rights treaties.

“It shows Muslim women that when the French authorities talk about equality between men and women, they don’t see them as women. They don’t count them,” says Anna Błuś, Amnesty International’s women’s rights researcher in Europe. “It’s really important for major human rights organizations such as ours, to be very vocal on this issue, and to publicly show solidarity with Muslim women’s rights groups,” Błuś says. “These communities and these women have been demonized and vilified for years.” 

On Tuesday, Amnesty International published a report calling out French authorities for the “discriminatory hypocrisy” of its hijab bans across a number of sports including soccer, volleyball, and basketball. Amnesty’s report details the racial and gendered discrimination an…

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