Lesley Ryder

Do we know what formation or tactics Martin Sjögren is planning to use? No.
Have we seen a single minute of preseason footage? No.
Do we know what position Jameese Joseph is going to play? No.

Does the NWSL start this week so we're gonna give you our thoughts as best we can anyway? Yes! #nwsl

Good work from the xOG boys to edit out the solid hour of terror screams in this episode

a woman wearing glasses and a pink shirt says " what like it 's hard " Alt: Elle Woods is wearing glasses, a pink shirt and a scholarly blazer. She asks an idiot boy " what like it 's hard "

The Paralympic motto:

Olympic curling: elaborate sweeping operation to tweak the path of the thrown rock, constant screaming, plus an earth-shaking controversy about tapping the rocks post-release to influence direction
Paralympic curling: just huckin it down there, don't see what the big deal is, works just fine

Her name is Cécile Hernandez, and she is *51* years old!

The para snowboard legend won her fifth medal today!

The course met technical specifications when it was tested during the 2023 winter season for Para snowboard. During that event, the start had to be moved halfway down the course due to limited snow and no further events were held despite requests, per FIS. No additional full pre‑Games testing took place, per the governing body.

The Paralympics snowboard cross event has been a disaster. Last minute changes had to be made to the course due to a spate of injuries during training sessions. This detail floored me: www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Athletes adjusting to late changes at Paralympic snowboard park after injuries: ‘Big sad for me’ Late changes were made at the Cortina Para Snowboard Park cross course after Friday’s training session had to be canceled due to injury.

The Para snowcross event was a big ol’ mess

www.nytimes.com/athletic/709... Athletes adjusting to late changes at Paralympic snowboard park after injuries: ‘Big sad for me’

Paralympics Day 1 Quick Hits: Gold Rush in the Alps — CULXTURED Written by Lesley Ryder      Oksana Masters didn’t have to wait long to win her 20th medal.  Masters went 10-for-10 on the shooting range to claim the first gold medal f...

Doing some writing for Culxtured during the Paralympics!

culxtured.com/stories/para...

The Paralympics are coming! Let’s talk about para snowboard, and the pioneering women who continue to push the sport forward, like @Bren | Paralympic Snowboarder and Bibian Mentel-Spee #winterparalym... TikTok video by Lesley Ryder - Women’s Sports

Cecile Hernandez at 51 years old has won her FIFTH medal with gold in para snowboard!

Cecile, along with Brenna Huckaby had to fight for their inclusion when their classification was eliminated from Paralympic competition.

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Not a betting person but I’d take the over on this unless by some miracle Chicago’s been clowning us and she’s been in full training this whole time!

It’s a bit bonkers to think about, but there’s a decent chance the USWNT goes a full two years without Triple Espresso on the roster at the same time.

SHEBELIEVES THE USWNT HAS WON THE CUP!!!

This is Chess in a nutshell 😂

Colombia making a Sunday feast out of a breeze. Oscars season in full swing.

LIL GIVE N GO, LIL TOP BINS FOR ALYSSA THOMPSON!!!!!!!

uswnt struggling through striker-less football after that anecdote about emma texting with pep all the time is some supremely on the nose stuff

What is Chelsea doing to everyone’s calf muscles???????

Bro I can’t believe Christen Press and Tobin Heath about to have two big ass speed paintings of themselves in the house I’d be so annoyed I gotta find space on the walls for that actually lmao

Just have to wait until like, June to be sure it’s actually warm outside 😂

We’ll always have the lake, Chicago.

Put in Emma Sears and Jameese Joseph I'm tryin to see something

A gold win today makes 20 medals for Oksana Masters! Find out how she got this far, and all it’s taken to make these games.

two curling stones literally bumping against the center, with an official pointing at the one that is imperceptibly closer

I've never seen two curling stones this close to the center! I think it was actually too close for them to bring out the measuring tool!

good time to note that (at least for a little while, tbd) I am available to freelance for you especially about women's sports and can bring you most-read kind of audiences

Looks like we've found out why!

An NBC spokesperson says “The women’s downhill was streamed live and a full-event replay of that event is available now.”

A prior replay on Peacock was 3 hours long, and it looks like they've updated it to include the women's competition, as its now 5 hours long.

Never in the history of the planet has a bird been this free.

A whooooooooole lotta Freebird playing in this USA para hockey opener.

THIS IS FINE.GIF

Take my hand, Stars fans, let’s scream into the void together.

Also: no footage of the snowboard qualifiers! No commentary teams on the peacock streams! I hate it here!!!!!!!