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— New record attendance for a women’s rugby match — set at the England v. Canada final of the Rugby World Cup. England won the title in the UK, with records shattered for tickets, attendance, and viewers.
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Three big stories to know this week in women's sports
1. Canada makes history at tough cycling World Champs race 🚲
Magdeleine Vallières' win at the world championship road race in Rwanda was only her second pro victory ever. In fact, during the awards ceremony, she appeared to be unaware of podium procedures — having never won at this level before! 😂
It was also Canada's first ever world championship win (man or woman). But, on a historically tough course, Vallières, who usually works in a domestique role, went for it. And her teammates weren't surprised.
💜 WATCH: Emotional interview with Canadian teammate Alison Jackson at the finish line
Also making history? Mavi Garcia, 41, in third. And the country of Rwanda, which hosted huge crowds, wild courses, and the first U23 standalone women's race. And reminded the UCI that cycling can (and should!) be a global sport — not just a European one.
Next World Championships:
2026 - Montréal, Canada
2027 - Haute-Savoie, France (Super Worlds)
2028 - Abu Dhabi, UAE
2029 - Copenhagen, Denmark
2030 - Brussels, Belgium
2031 - Trentino, Italy (Super Worlds)
💭 READ: Sports are fundamentally political and neutrality is an illusion.
🎧 LISTEN: We talk Canada's big week in sports on this week's Feist podcast
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(Magdeleine Vallieres is greeted by teammate Alison Jackson at the finish line of her win. Photo: UCI)
2. 1,100 athletes head to Para Athletics World Champs
The 12th edition of the Para Track & Field World Championships started in New Delhi this past weekend and will run through this upcoming weekend with 186 medal events 🥇
How do classifications work?
In the Paralympics and para competition, athletes are put into categories (called classifications) based on similar levels of physical disability.
For track and field, the classifications use a system where "T" stands for track & jumping and "F" stands for field & throwing events. The first number then indicates the type of impairment and the second number indicates the severity: For example, 11-13 are vision impairments, 31-34 are limb impairments with wheelchairs and 35-38 are limb impairments without wheelchairs, and the 40s are for amputees.
And so far, some of our favorite highlights:
Elham Salehi 🇮🇷 won Iran's first women's gold medal, in the javelin
Orla Comerford 🇮🇪 won the 100m & 200m in the T13 category
Magdalena Andruszkiewicz 🇵🇱 also took two golds in the 400m & 100m in the T72 category with a new world record — the T72 category, where athletes use a three-wheeled running frame, will make its Paralympic debut in L.A.
Xiaoyan Wen🇨🇳, one of the Paralympic's most successful athletes with eight previous world championship titles, has won three golds (!) in the long jump, 400m, and 100m
- That's topped only by wheelchair athlete Catherine Debrunner 🇨🇭, who has won the 5,000m, 800m, and 1,500m (in a championship records time of 3:16.81); she'll also be going for the 400m and 100m later in the week.
- And Sabrina Fortune 🇬🇧 threw a new world record to win the shotput
📺 WATCH: Live and replays on the Paralympics (IPC) Youtube
3. Your WNBA update 🔥 🏀
Yes, the league is in the middle of playoffs, but the biggest WNBA news this week came from a team that has already been eliminated.
In her final season interview — after the #1 Minnesota Lynx were eliminated following a controversial officiating call and the expulsion and one-game suspension of coach Cheryl Reeves — Napheesa Collier blasted league leadership.
Collier, who is considered a front-runner for league MVP, is also the vice president for the WNBA Players Association and founder of the 3v3 Unrivaled league. In her negotiating capacity for a new collective bargaining agreement, she met with league president Cathy Englebert. And Collier told reporters that in those meetings Engelbert:
Said high-profile rookies, like Caitlin Clark, should be "grateful" to the league (despite making minimum salaries) because without it she wouldn't have a platform
Dismissed concerns about injuries and discrepancies in officiating
Told her players should be "on their knees thanking me" for the media deal
Players have nearly universally rallied behind Collier, who is well-respected throughout the sport. This comes as the players have been pushing for a larger percentage of league revenue, with profits, media rights, and expansion teams exploding.
🎧 LISTEN: On this week's Feist podcast episode we talk with Teresa Resch, president of the new WNBA Toronto team
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Tip of the week
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Using a GLP-1? Keep hitting the weights.
As weight loss medication-use becomes more prevalent, it’s essential to make strength and resistance training a priority. A new scientific review indicates that about 21-31% of total weight lost with GLP-1 drugs may come from lean tissue. Menopausal women often start with lower levels of lean mass, lose some muscle strength and lean mass with estrogen decline, have higher
osteoporosis risk, and tend to lose a bit more total weight with GLP-1s than men.
That means they may lose more absolute muscle mass and even losing the same percent lean mass can have a bigger functional impact on strength and bone.
JOIN US: At the Feisty 40+ strength retreat in November 💪
The highlight reel
- Katie Schide 🇺🇸 won the "long" race at the World Trail & Mountain Running Championships, Tove Alexandersson 🇸🇪 won the "short" 45km by over 30 minutes, and Nina Engelhard 🇩🇪 took the vertical 6K (!) and 14km race.
- 🏏 The women’s Cricket World Cup, hosted by India 🇮🇳, also kicked off this week with India beating Sri Lanka in the opening match. Eight teams are in pool play for the next three weeks, with the final on Nov. 2 and a record $13.88 million in prize money.
- 🏋️♀️ And the World Weightlifting Championships start tomorrow in Norway, with athletes competing in a new condensed eight weight classes per gender.
Loanne Duvoisin won her first XTERRA World Championship (off-road triathlon 🏊♀️ 🚵♀️ 🏃♀️) in *very* muddy conditions.
🏃♀️ Rachel Entrekin won the new Mammoth 200-miler in 46 hours, 50 minutes and 55 seconds — behind just one male runner.
🚲 Rosa Klöser won the Ranxo Gravel race and, with it, the women's Gravel Earth Series title.
The Mountain Bike World Championships will return to Durango, Colorado for the 40th anniversary of the world championships in 2030 — which is where they were originally held back in 1990. 🚵♀️
The X Games announced a brand new model that will include an X Games League (the first for action and extreme sports) launching in 2026.
Beth Potter won the World Triathlon Championship Series race in China, taking the overall series lead ahead of the final later this month.
🏊♀️ 🚴♀️ 🏃♀️ The last all-women's Ironman World Championship heads to Kona, Hawaii next week 🌺 — and Feisty is on the ground. If you're there, join us for brunch, shakeout runs, and live podcasts with world champions. If you don't want to miss anything, get daily updates from the Big Island.
With winter sports just getting started ahead of the Winter Olympics (as the summer sports wrap up their world championships!), Amber Glenn won the Nebelhorn Trophy ⛸️ And current world champion, Alysia Liu has opted to scrap her short-program, because it had been set to music from artist D4vd, who is now connected to the suspicious death of a missing teenage girl.
⚽ The Black Women's Players Collective will host a showcase to identify young Black soccer talent. And the NWSL also announced it would have two combines
this December for different ages, in an attempt to identify young talent early.
Chicago is the latest city to get its own women's sports bar.
Your Feisty recommendations
🎧 What to listen to: Maude Farrell, who won the Lead Challenge this summer, joined our Girls Gone Gravel podcast to talk about how she's coped with the murder and loss of her close friend Moriah Wilson, and how the cycling community dealt with the grief
📚 What to read: “The Bowling Alley: It’s a Woman’s World”
📺 What to watch: Allyson Felix’s amazing documentary She Runs The World just won the audience award at the Aspen Film Festival — but, according to her brother and agent, despite success at filming (check out more screenings upcoming!) it’s been hard to convince streamers to share the movie more widely
💜 What we love: brb watching women’s sports
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