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Watch a 13-Year-Old Girl Bench Press 240 Pounds Like It’s Not Even a Big Deal [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 1:15 pm, March 22nd, 2013

The YouTube comments on this video are filled with suggestions that Maryana Naumova‘s form is awful and that if she lifted weights on a flat back “She’d be reduced to <120 lbs.” And, OK, I don’t know anything about weight lifting, so that might be true.

But I do know that the face that guy is making at 3:20 was my face throughout the entire video.

And anyway, 120 lbs? My noodle arms ache just thinking about trying to lift that.

(via: HyperVocal)

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Supergirly

A Girl Named Genghis Khan: Squash Player Masqueraded as a Boy to Learn the Game

by Susana Polo | 4:19 pm, March 20th, 2013

When Maria Toorpakai Wazir was four, she cut her hair, dressed in her brother’s clothes, and took her own clothes into the backyard to burn them. “My father started laughing,” she says, “and said, ‘Here we go, we have a Genghis Khan in the family.’” The rest of her childhood in the Waziristan region of Pakistan was marked by fist fights, which she says is how she made friends. “I am a warrior, I was born a warrior, I will die like a warrior.”

Sounds about right for a girl who dressed as a boy in order to play the sport of squash, becoming the best female player in Pakistan, until Taliban threats forced her to leave the country in order to continue to train.

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Today is a Good Day For Someone Else To Die

Golfer Who Got Bitten By Black Widow And Kept Playing, You’re Our New Spider-Woman

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, February 14th, 2013

It was just another day on the course for Swedish golfer Daniela Holmqvist. Until she was bit by a Black Widow spider, that is. Did the rookie run off to seek medical attention? No, she used a golf tee to cut into her skin and remove the venom. Daniela Holmqvist, you are a superhero. 

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so long and thanks for all the fish

R.I.P. Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, Inspiration for Dottie in A League of Their Own

by Susana Polo | 4:12 pm, February 5th, 2013

True Story: The last time I saw the tail end of A League of Their Own, I had to look away so that I didn’t cry (becausethere’snocryinginbaseball). True details: I was running. On a treadmill. At the gym. And the television was on mute. One of the last times I was actually unable to not cry even by great force of will at a movie screening, it was a combination of watching The Muppets and knowing that Jim Henson‘s wife and daughter were in attendance.

So, from this evidence, I postulate that if there was anything guaranteed to make me cry buckets of salt tears, it would have been watching A League of Their Own with Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, who died this weekend at the age of 88.

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The Future Is Now!

ESPN Hosts Hacking Competition for Women [Now Hear How This Makes Sense]

by Susana Polo | 11:44 am, November 13th, 2012

ESPN, coding, and women aren’t three things you’d expect to see in connection to each other, unless, perhaps, it was a statement about how the cultures of the first two aren’t generally known for involving a lot of the latter, at least in participatory roles. And then there’s the notorious rivalry on screen and stage of “Jocks vs. Geeks.”

But this weekend two hundred people, most of them women, came together at Stanford University for espnW’s first Hack Day, a competition to see who could code the best mobile app for sports fans, regardless of their gender.

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

NASCAR’S First African-American Female Is A Second-Generation Driver

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:45 pm, August 29th, 2012

Tia Norfleet has a really cool dad. Bobby Norfleet, also a NASCAR driver, tinkered with her battery-powered Barbie car upon request so she could beat neighborhood children in races. “She loved it, she loved going fast,” he told Reuters. “I knew then that she was interested in racing.”

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

While You Were Sleeping: Katie Taylor Wins Ireland’s First Gold Medal Of The 2012 Olympics, Makes History For Women Boxers

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:45 am, August 10th, 2012

Katie Taylor won Ireland’s first gold medal of the games, the ninth Olympic gold medal in Ireland’s history, and the first gold medal in women’s boxing (60 kg), a new sport added to the Olympics. (via The New York Times.)

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

While You Were Sleeping: Sarah Attar Makes History as First Saudi Woman to Compete in Athletics at the Olympics

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:01 am, August 8th, 2012

Saudi Arabia’s Sarah Attar made history in the 800m heats by becoming the first woman from her country to compete in athletics at the Olympics. She finished 43 seconds behind heat winner Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei of Kenya.

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

While You Were Sleeping: Tiki Gelana Breaks Women’s Marathon World Record

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:01 am, August 6th, 2012

Ethiopia’s Tiki Gelana won the women’s marathon event in a record time of 2:23:07. Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya came in 2nd, and Russia’s Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova came in 3rd. (via NY Daily News.)

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

While You Were Sleeping: Gabrielle Douglas Makes History With Gymnastic All-Around Gold

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:49 am, August 3rd, 2012

American gymnast Gabrielle Douglas clinched the women’s individual all-around gold, becoming the first African-American Olympic all-around champion. (via ABC News.)

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