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$1 billion
— The valuation of the Golden State Valkyries going into the WNBA season, according to CNBC — making it the first ever women's sports team to hit a $1 billion value
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The first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner 🐎
Even if you don't care about horse racing (or you think it's incredibly problematic), watch this video of trainer Cherie DeVaux cheering her horse on as he went from last to first and try not to cry 😭
The overhead view shows more clearly how Golden Tempo came from the very back of the field to win.
And with that DeVaux became the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby. After leaving college and pre-med, she started out working at a stable walking horses, trying to find a new direction for her life, and then opened her own stable eight years ago. Now she's making history.
What's a trainer? A horse has an owner, who finances the operation; a trainer, who runs the day-to-day care and training; and a jockey, who does the riding and works closely with the trainer.
But why aren't there more women jockeys?
Sexism!
Oh wait, you thought the answer was more complicated than that? Despite a 14-year study analyzing performances, which found female jockeys were as good as male jockeys, women still made up just 12% of the riders. There continue to be perceptions of weakness, and access to horses and development for up-and-coming women remains limited.
There have been just six women jockeys who have ridden in the Kentucky Derby 🐎
📚 READ: One of the first women to become a licensed jockey in the U.S. was Penny Ann Early, who was featured in LIFE Magazine in a 1968 story about her fight — with an editorial from a male Hall of Fame rider who argued that, although she had the right to ride, women weren't suited for the track:
“They’ll find out how tough it is and they’ll give it up. The tracks won’t have to worry about being flooded with women because a female cannot compete against a male doing anything...They might weigh the same as male jockeys, but they aren’t as strong. And as a group, I don’t think their brains are as capable of making fast decisions. Women are also more likely to panic. It’s their nature.”
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(Cherie DeVaux greets Golden Tempo the day after his win. Photo: Kentucky Derby)
Why a pro runner is suing Puma over their shoes 👟
Abby Steiner, a two-time world champion sprinter, is suing Puma and arguing their shoes contributed to a string of injuries that effectively ended her career.
She argues that, after signing a $2 million deal with Puma, she then experienced a series of foot injuries over the next three years because the carbon fiber plate and nitrofoam technology “changed the foot and ankle mechanics during running that may contribute to or increase the risk of injury.” And that Puma knew of "defects" in the shoes.
Does her lawsuit have merit? 🤷♀️
Puma has denied their shoes cause injuries.
However, Steiner is not the first runner to sue a shoe company over their supershoes. In the fall, a former UC Berkeley runner sued Nike, arguing that the Alphafly 2 caused a fracture in her left foot.
Research has shown repeatedly that "technologically advanced running shoes" (commonly called "supershoes") do change how runners strike the ground and the amount of reaction forces. Supershoes definitely change a person's running mechanics — but do they cause injury or do they help prevent overuse injuries? That's where the research is a bit more split!
Tip of the week
If you bike, then you've probably dealt with saddle pain and saddle sores. But you don't have to! You don't have to suffer in silence!
Because bike seats and bike gear are often designed for men, and most bike fitters are male, women have long struggled with saddle pain and saddle sores — which, if left unaddressed, can turn into chronic labia swelling.
What can you do?
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Start with a bike fit and find a fitter who understands female anatomy
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Get the right saddle width and try different saddles
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Invest in good bike shorts
🚲 READ: "Cycling's silent epidemic"
🎧 LISTEN: "Stop silently suffering through saddle sores with Dr. Melissa Mauskar" |
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The highlight reel
- At Europe's biggest gravel race, the Traka, 🚲 Sofía Gómez Villafane won the 200km, Rosa Klöser won the 350km, and in her first ultra-cycling race Maddy Nutt set a new record in the 560km.
- Canada 🇨🇦 set a new world record in the mixed 4x100m relay at the World Relays 🏃♀️ — but then Jamaica 🇯🇲 broke their record a few minutes later and again in the final, becoming the first team to go under 40 seconds.
- 🏃♀️ Karissa Schweizer won the U.S. 5K national championships on the road.
- 🏃♀️ Rachel Entrekin is currently leading, overall, the Cocodona 250-mile trail race.
- Canadian bronze medalist in the pole vault, Alysha Newman, was suspended for 20 months for missing doping tests. However, she had already ended her career.
- 5x world champ 🏄♀️ Carissa Moore got her first emotional win back in the World Surf League after giving birth to her daughter.
- 🏊♀️ Gretchen Walsh broke her own world record in the 100m fly (54.33 seconds).
- Beau Greaves won the Players Championship darts tournament, becoming the first woman to win a PDC ranking title.
- Nelly Korda ⛳ became the first woman, since 1980, to win 18 LPGA titles before her 28th birthday.
- ⚾ Olivia Pichardo became the first woman to pitch in a D1 NCAA baseball game.
- UCLA won the NCAA beach volleyball national title over the top-seeded Stanford.
- 🏐 According to the USA Network (which aired the season), 7.5 million viewers tuned in to LOVB volleyball this year.
- 🏐 The Major League Volleyball championships start on Thursday.
- The first round of PWHL playoffs 🏒 continue tonight. In a best-of-five semifinal, Minnesota leads Montreal 1-0 and Boston and Ottawa are tied 1-1.
- Barcelona will play OL Lyonnes in the UEFA Champions League Final on May 23 in a battle of the two powerhouse teams of women's soccer. ⚽
- The NWSL ⚽ will delay shifting its season to align with the European leagues until at least 2030.
- The AIG Women's Open 🏌️♀️ will pay a record $10 million in prize money this year.
- And the University of Pennsylvania has launched a Women's Health Initiative to focus on female student-athletes.
Your Feisty recommendations
🎧 What to listen to: "Solving the hot weather hydration and fueling puzzle"
📺 What to watch: The Brittney Griner Story from ESPN's 30 for 30
💜 What we loved to see: Alysia Liu, Serena & Venus Williams, Lindsey Vonn and all of the athletes at the Met Gala — including Eileen Gu's dress that literally blew bubbles 🫧
😂 What made us laugh: When your day job doesn't know what you did over the weekend
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