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Plenty of Olympic spirit at women’s world curling championsh...

The world women’s curling championship is serving as a reunion of sorts. Six of the 12 skips taking part in the world championship at the Credit Union i-plex took part in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Sweden’s A [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Australian women have fastest rising obesity rate in the wor...

Aussie women have the fastest rising obesity rate in the world, new research has revealed. According to The Daily Telegraph, for the first time Australian women are close to matching America's obesity level.The study compared the bod [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Canadian women beat Cuba for world berth

When the buzzer sounded Sunday at the end of regulation at in the bronze-medal match at the FIBA Americas championship in Cuiaba, Brazil, the Canadian women's basketball team felt they had qualified for the 2010 world championships. Video [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Could the Women's 800-meter World Champ Be a Man?

South African runner Caster Semenya's muscular physique helped propel her to victory during the 800 meters at Wednesday night's world track and field championships in Berlin. Now that physique, coupled with an ongoing gender verification te [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

World's richest women

It looks like billionaire Abigail Johnson is moving closer to the Fidelity throne. This month the daughter of Edward "Ned" Johnson III, lord of the world's largest mutual fund company, took charge of the board governing the compan [...]

Posted On : Aug, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Women's Cricket World Cup winners to play at Louth

HEY may be more used to playing at top test grounds, but England's World Cup winning lady cricketers are set to grace a rather more prosaic setting when they arrive in Lincolnshire next month. The triple champions will be at Louth Cricket [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Women's Cricket World Cup winners to play at Louth

THEY may be more used to playing at top test grounds, but England's World Cup winning lady cricketers are set to grace a rather more prosaic setting when they arrive in Lincolnshire next month. The triple champions will be at Louth Crick [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

U.S. Womens Hockey Team Repeats as World Champion

The United States won its second straight women’s World Hockey Championship on Sunday, beating Canada, 4-1, behind defenseman Caitlin Cahow’s two goals. Goaltender Jessie Vetter made 39 saves and the United States played a penal [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Canada aims to freeze out Finns in women's world hockey play...

Finland's breakthrough in women's hockey came earlier than planned. After the 2006 Olympics, Finland's three-year plan was to peak this year when they hosted the 2009 women's world championship. Their first win over the U.S. in the country' [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Camp for Womens World Cup cricket starts

A six-day national women’s cricket camp started here at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Academy Ground on Monday morning. It will conclude on Saturday, February 28.The Pakistan Women team will be departing on Sunday at 2:30 am from t [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Germany picks hosts for women's 2011 World Cup

The women's World Cup in 2011 in Germany will open in Berlin, with the championship game in Frankfurt.German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on hand Tuesday for the German soccer federation's announcement of the nine venues for the 32 games. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Amber Neben wins women's time trial at cycling's Road World ...

Her compatriot Kristin Armstrong - who won the Olympic title in such fine style in Beijing and took the world title in 2006 - had been expected to lead the field home here but the 25.15km course proved to be much flatter than the profile [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2008 | Comments : 0

U.S. topples Canada to win world women's hockey crown

Canada's reign as the world's ice queens has come to a disappointing end. Canada fell 4-3 to the United States on Saturday in the gold-medal showdown at the IIHF world women's hockey championship in Harbin, China, sending the defending cha [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

Wilma Rudolph- World's Fastest Female

Long before becoming the world's fastest female, Wilma Rudolph beat her greatest odds by learning to walk on her own. As a child, Rudolph (the 17th of 21 children) was afflicted with polio, scarlet fever and double pneumonia and grew [...]