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☆ She Accused a Rowing Legend of Abuse. Now He Is Being Erased From the Sport.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A 16-month investigation made public on Tuesday determined that child sexual abuse accusations against Ted Nash, a two-time Olympic medalist and nine-time Olympic coach for the United States who had mythic status in his sport over decades, were credible and that his main accuser had no motive to lie about the abuse. She was 13 then and he was her 40-year-old running coach. The abuse, which lasted about a year, ended in 1973, said Ms. Fox, whose 2018 film “The Tale” depicted her memories of the abuse but did not name Mr. Nash. Jan Nash, his widow, did not immediately respond to voice messages and texts seeking comment. Last year, she told The New York Times that she was shocked and saddened by the accusations and said that “it’s just not fair” for Ms. Fox to name Ted now that he can’t defend himself.

Persons: Ted Nash, Shearman, Nash, Jennifer Fox, Fox, Jan Nash, Ted, can’t Organizations: United, Sterling, Rowing, New York Times Locations: United States, Manhattan

☆ Justice Dept. Reaches $138.7 Million Settlement Over F.B.I.’s Failures in Nassar Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Glenn Thrush | Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department said on Tuesday it would pay $138.7 million to resolve 139 claims by young women, including many top female gymnasts, of abuse by the former U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Lawrence G. Nassar. The far-reaching settlement, which had been expected, stems from the failure of Federal Bureau of Investigation officials to promptly investigate credible claims that Mr. Nassar had sexually assaulted more than 150 women and girls under the guise of examinations and treatment. It likely marks the end of a yearslong effort by the gymnasts — including the Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — to achieve a measure of justice and public recognition that the institutions entrusted to protect young female athletes failed to protect them. While lawyers for the young women hailed the settlement, they cast the government’s monetary compensation for its early reluctance to fully investigate Mr. Nassar as a case of too little, too late.

Persons: Lawrence G, Nassar, Mr, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman — Organizations: Gymnastics, Federal Bureau of

☆ Justice Dept. Nears Settlement Over F.B.I.’s Failure to Investigate Larry Nassar
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Juliet Macur | Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department is nearing a $100 million settlement over its initial failure to investigate Lawrence G. Nassar, the former U.S.A. Gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing girls under his care, according to people familiar with the situation. The approach of a settlement comes two and a half years after senior F.B.I. officials publicly admitted that agents had failed to take quick action when U.S. national team athletes complained about Mr. Nassar to the bureau’s Indianapolis field office in 2015, when Mr. Nassar was a respected physician known for working with Olympians and college athletes. He has been accused of abusing more than 150 women and girls over the years.

Persons: Lawrence G, Nassar Organizations: Gymnastics Locations: Indianapolis

☆ Kamila Valieva Is Banned Four Years Over 2022 Olympic Doping Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Tariq Panja | Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kamila Valieva, the teenage Russian figure skater whose positive doping test upended her sport at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, was banned from competition for four years on Monday by the top court in sports. The punishment, announced by a three-member arbitration panel empowered by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, was related to a tainted sample Valieva, who was 15 at the time, gave at a competition. The ban will be retroactive to Dec. 25, 2021, the arbitrators ruled, meaning it will end in 2025, just in time for Valieva to compete at the next Winter Olympics, in 2026. Now 17, she was ordered to forfeit “any titles, awards, medals, profits, prizes and appearance money” earned after her positive doping sample was collected. Valieva had claimed that she had mistakenly taken a heart medication, Trimetazidine, prescribed for her grandfather.

Persons: Kamila Valieva, Valieva, ”, Russia’s Organizations: Sport, Olympics, Valieva Locations: Russian, Swiss, Russia

☆ They Shot at Her. They Forced Her From Her Home. She Won’t Stop Fighting for Girls.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“These players dreamed of playing football for Afghanistan and men just came and took that dream from them,” Popal said. FIFA has declared it a priority to ensure equal access to soccer without discrimination. But in Afghanistan’s case, it is just “monitoring the situation very closely,” according to its statement. A spokesman for the Afghanistan Football Federation said the organization could do nothing to help because the women’s national team dissolved when the players fled the country — an assertion the players reject. While working for Right to Dream, a soccer nonprofit, and Girl Power, her own nonprofit, she organized a petition, which has been signed by more than 175,000 people since publishing online in late July.

Persons: ” Popal, you’ve, Julie Elliott, Malala Yousafzai Organizations: FIFA, Afghanistan Football Federation Locations: Afghanistan, British

Nobody was surprised that Megan Rapinoe took the Golden Ball, for the tournament’s best player, in 2019, or that Lionel Messi did the same in 2022. Some World Cups are, after all, very obviously dominated by one central character. This has not been one of those World Cups, though. Several Spain players might be contenders: Aitana Bonmati, Mariona Caldentey, Teresa Abelleira. Japan’s Hinata Miyazawa will likely win the tournament’s Golden Ball, the award handed out to the most prolific goal-scorer.

Persons: volubly, Nobody, Megan Rapinoe, Lionel Messi, Aitana, Mariona Caldentey, Teresa Abelleira, Millie Bright, Kosovare Asllani, Sam Kerr, Mary Fowler, Australia’s, Hinata, Lauren, Alessia Russo, Lauren James, Alba Redondo, Jenni Hermoso, Bonmatí, Mary Earps, Zecira, Salma Paralluelo, James, Fowler Organizations: FIFA, Spain —, Spain, Nigeria Locations: Sydney, Spain, Georgia, Sweden, England

☆ How the U.S. Was Eliminated, Shot by Shot
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Under an ink black Australian sky above Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, the Women’s World Cup game between the United States and Sweden on Sunday went on and on and on. That’s when the United States’ recent dominance in the World Cup fully ended, and the Americans were left stunned and devastated by their worst showing at the quadrennial tournament. But on Sunday, in the round of 16, three missed penalty kicks and a razor-thin goal by Sweden changed their fate. Sophia Smith, who missed an opportunity to win for the United States, had to be consoled by her teammates as she sat on the field in tears. Kelley O’Hara, in her fourth World Cup, stormed by reporters and stared straight ahead in silence after the game, moments after her penalty shot hit the right post and bounced away.

Persons: Sophia Smith, Kelley O’Hara, Megan Rapinoe, Rapinoe, “, ” Organizations: Sunday Locations: Melbourne, United States, Sweden

☆ Women’s World Cup United States Loses Knockout Match to Sweden on Penalty Kicks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Andrew Das | Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

She had been running, by that stage, for roughly 100 minutes, mounting what appeared at times to be a fearsome, one-woman campaign to keep South Africa in the Women’s World Cup for as long as possible. But Kgatlana, as she had already amply proved in this tournament, does not believe in stopping. First, she spun and writhed and twisted away from a defender, leaving her sprawled on the turf. The Netherlands, in the end, went through to the quarterfinals, where Spain lies in wait in Wellington, New Zealand. Image Thembi Kgatlana, whose goal against Italy had sent South Africa to the round of 16, did all she could to extend its stay.

Persons: Thembi Kgatlana, Stefanie van der Gragt, Daphne van Domselaar’s, Jill Roord, Mark Baker, van Domselaar, Kgatlana, Desiree Ellis’s, ” Ellis, “, ”, David Gray, Daphne van Domselaar, couldn’t, Franck Fife, Lineth Beerensteyn Organizations: Italy, Associated, South, Desiree Ellis’s South, Agence France Locations: South Africa, Netherlands, Spain, Wellington , New Zealand, Italy, Desiree Ellis’s South Africa, New Zealand, jubilation

☆ Inside U.S. Team, a Campaign to Avert Disaster Gets Personal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“We’re going to have more rhythm; we’re going to have more confidence.”Joy has been in short supply the last two weeks. The U.S. team came into the World Cup as the favorite to win it, but it is far from living up to its potential. In many ways, it has been the worst showing of the United States ever at this tournament. In this edition of the World Cup, the United States has looked anything but invincible. The teams have met six times at the World Cup, and in every edition since 2007.

Persons: ” Horan, “ We’re, ” Joy Organizations: U.S, United, Janeiro Olympics, Tokyo Games, Argentina Locations: United States, Sweden, Janeiro

☆ Back From the Edge, U.S. Tries to Focus on What Comes Next
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is trying to forget just how close it came to the exit. Forget that the United States has had trouble scoring at this tournament, they said, and that it just cannot figure out how to convert its passes and its possession into goals. O’Hara leaned in and looked around at the faces of her teammates — some sad, some blank, some determined. “I just told them, ‘Listen, guys, we did what we had to do,’” O’Hara said. “It’s not like everyone’s sitting there like, ‘Wow, that was the most amazing performance we put together.’ But that’s where you have to dig deep.

Persons: Rapinoe, Kelley O’Hara, Tuesday’s, O’Hara, —, “, ” O’Hara, ’, Crystal Dunn, ”, “ It’s Organizations: United States, U.S Locations: United, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Sweden, United States

The job for the United States women’s soccer team on Tuesday is clear, because that job never changes. The United States must get past Portugal to advance at the Women’s World Cup because that it what is needed, what is expected, what is required. It’s just kind of, why are you coming to the World Cup if you don’t think you should win it? The United States is a team in transition, a mix of veteran World Cup champions and fresh-faced World Cup rookies that has struggled both to dominate weaker teams and to unlock stronger ones. The United States knows it has arrived at a special moment in this World Cup.

Persons: Megan Rapinoe, “, doesn’t, Rapinoe, ”, haven’t, Vlatko, ” Andonovski Organizations: United, U.S, women’s Locations: United States, Portugal, U.S, Netherlands, Vietnam, England

☆ A New Era of Soccer Moms Navigates a Rapidly Changing Game
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Julie Ertz was on the clock. On one sunny morning in May, Ertz, a defender for the United States women’s soccer team, rolled out of bed early to dress and feed her infant son, Madden, and pack him for a trip. Then she scrambled to collect her soccer gear and headed off to a meeting with her club team, which was followed by several hours of practice. As Ertz, 31, described this crazy schedule and her daily challenges juggling roles as a soccer star and a first-time mother, her eyes filled with tears. “I didn’t know if I’d be back,” she said of returning to soccer only months after Madden’s birth, in hopes of playing in her third Women’s World Cup.

Persons: Julie Ertz, Madden, Ertz, Ertz’s, Zach Ertz, Julie, Zach, I’d, ”, “ Organizations: United, soccer, Phoenix, Arizona Cardinals, National Women’s Soccer League, Angel City F.C, Madden Locations: Ertz, United States, Los Angeles, East Coast

☆ Megan Rapinoe Is Not Going Quietly
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sitting on the bench as her United States team played at the Women’s World Cup last week, Megan Rapinoe was sure that she was in the wrong spot. “I’m always shocked when I don’t play,” Rapinoe said with a laugh, joking with reporters on Sunday about her uneasy new role: reserve. For the first time in 12 years, Rapinoe, the outspoken and accomplished leader of the U.S. team for the past decade, is watching the World Cup instead of starring in it. Rapinoe, 38, expected this World Cup to be a sort of changing of the guard, of course. She is the oldest player on the team, and on the eve of her team’s departure for New Zealand, she announced that this would be her final World Cup and her final professional season.

Persons: Megan Rapinoe, Vlatko Andonovski, “ I’m, ” Rapinoe, Rapinoe Organizations: United States, “, U.S, New Zealand Locations: U.S, Vietnam, United States, Netherlands, Rapinoe

☆ Flash of Anger Led to a Moment of Brilliance for U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Enough of the United States women’s team, the two-time reigning world champion, not playing its best at this Women’s World Cup. Now Horan, a United States co-captain, had just been hip-checked hard by a Netherlands counterpart, Danielle van de Donk. “Just score this goal,” Ertz had whispered as they lined up to await a corner kick from Rose Lavelle, “to shut everyone up.”And that’s just what she did. As Rose Lavelle’s corner screamed into the penalty area, Horan sprinted for the precise spot where it would arrive. She jumped to meet it, snapped her head and sent the ball straight into the net.

Persons: Lindsey Horan, Horan, Danielle van de, van de Donk, Julie Ertz, ” Ertz, Rose Lavelle, “, Rose, Lavelle Organizations: United, United States women’s Locations: Netherlands, United States

☆ Women’s World Cup: Italy Starts a 16-Year-Old, and Germany Leans on Its Experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Juliet Macur | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

Women’s World Cup: Italy Starts a 16-Year-Old, and Germany Leans on Its Experience Italy’s Giulia Dragoni became one of the youngest players ever to appear in the tournament. Credit... Hannah Mckay/Reuters Morocco’s presence at the Women’s World Cup already has yielded a string of notable moments. Italy vs. Argentina Italy reached the quarterfinals of the last World Cup, a solid result after a 20-year absence from the tournament. The Brazilian legend is appearing in her sixth World Cup at age 37, and still hoping to capture an ever-elusive title. The South Koreans have made it to the knockout stage once in three previous World Cup appearances, in 2015.

Persons: Giulia Dragoni, Morocco Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, Hannah Mckay, Morocco James Ross, Robert Cianflone, Hamish Blair, Argentina Phil Walter, Abbie Parr, David Rowland, Argentina Buda Mendes, Panama Bienvenido Velasco, Naomi Girma, Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher, Andrew Cornaga, Vlatko Andonovski, Ertz, Andonovski, Alana Cook, Girma, ” Girma, Becky Sauerbrunn, Sauerbrunn, ” Andonovski, Nouhaila, Nouhaila Benzina, Prince Ali bin al, Hussein, Benzina, Morocco’s, Reynald Pedros, Ghizlane, Chebbak, “ It’s, ”, Megan Rapinoe, Quinn, Pedros, Sam Kerr, Australia’s Sam Kerr, Darren England, Kyra Cooney, Kerr, “, Sam, ” Cooney, we’re, Sam’s, ZT8aF7puDp — Tracey Holmes, Cooney, Cristiana, Phil Walter, Marta, Pia Sundhage, Milena Bertolini, Little Messi, Chiara Beccari, Italy nabbed, Cristiana Girelli Organizations: Morocco, Reuters, Associated Press, Argentina, Getty, Panama, Group, Argentina Cristiana, Brazil Group, Vietnam, United States, Tokyo Olympics, Portugal, U.S, North, Germany, FIFA, Moroccan, BBC, ., Ireland, United, European Locations: Germany, Morocco, Reuters Germany, Reuters Morocco, Associated Press Italy, Italy, Associated Press Argentina, Reuters Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Alyssa Naeher ., United States, Ertz, Netherlands, United, Vietnam, Melbourne ., Arab, France, Moroccan, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia, Nigeria, Colombia, South Korea, Argentina Italy

☆ Sophia Smith Has Been Ready for Her World Cup Moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the weeks before the Women’s World Cup, Sophia Smith admitted that she wanted to be the first United States player to score a goal in the tournament. Growing up in Colorado as the youngest of three girls, Smith spent years trying to keep up with her sporty sisters. Yet even as a young teenager, Smith said, she knew she was destined for something bigger. She told her parents that she had the talent and drive to be a “special” soccer player. “I’m a winner,” Smith said in an interview before the World Cup.

Persons: Sophia Smith, Smith, I’m, ” Smith, “, ” Organizations: United Locations: United States, Colorado

☆ This U.S. World Cup Team Is One for the Ages. All the Ages.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That generation gap, and how the U.S. team deals with it, is likely to be one of the prominent stories of the World Cup. For the United States, a four-time World Cup winner, this tournament also presents a new, unrelenting challenge from rivals rising to meet the Americans’ level as leaders, spokeswomen and champions. “There’s always pressure in this team,” said Horan, 29. Fourteen members of the 23-player roster are World Cup rookies. It’s Andonovski’s first World Cup, too.

Persons: Lindsey Horan, team’s, won’t, “, ”, Horan, Vlatko Andonovski, It’s Organizations: U.S . Locations: U.S, United States

☆ Women’s World Cup Begins With Host Nations in Opening Games
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Andrew Das | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

He moved through the building site, discharging the firearm as he went. Clearly, with the FIFA World Cup kicking off this evening, there are a lot of eyes on Auckland. Image Members of the Philippines Women’s World Cup team in Auckland on Thursday. New Zealand’s prime minister, Chris Hipkins, said the Women’s World Cup would proceed as planned. Even before then, gun ownership was relatively rare in New Zealand, and gun violence is considered unusual.

Persons: Chris Hipkins, Andrew Coster, Coster, ”, David Rowland, Abbie Parr, ” Mr, Hipkins, cordoning, Saeed Khan, Lise Klaveness, ” Halvor Lea, Maren Mjelde, Jacinda Ardern, Juliet Macur, Andrew Das, Yan Zhuang, Tariq Panja Organizations: Armed Offenders Squad, FIFA, New Zealand Herald, Police, ., Eden, United States, Vietnam, Norway, New Zealand Police, Associated Press, New Zealand, Agence France, Norway women’s Locations: New Zealand, Auckland, Queen, Auckland , New Zealand, Norway, Auckland’s, U.S, Australia, Ireland, Philippines, ”, Norwegian, Christchurch, North, Raurimu, Aramoana, Sydney

At least two people were killed and several others injured after a gunman stormed a building under construction with a shotgun in the New Zealand city of Auckland early Thursday, hours before the first soccer match of the Women’s World Cup was scheduled to begin in the city. The gunman was also killed, the police said in a post on Twitter. Armed police officers and vehicles swarmed the area, and the authorities shut down parts of the city. The episode occurred as teams from New Zealand and Norway were set to play at Eden Park Stadium, about three miles from the site of the shooting. Several World Cup teams and many fans are staying in Auckland’s central business district, and the shooting occurred very close to Norway’s team hotel and near a fan festival set up for the tournament.

Persons: Anna Thompson Organizations: Twitter, New Zealand Police, Eden Locations: New Zealand, Auckland, Norway, Auckland’s

After 17 years on the national team and nearly as many years speaking out to support various issues including L.G.B.T.Q. rights, equal pay, the Black Lives Matter movement and voter rights, Rapinoe will play in her fourth Women’s World Cup and her final season in the National Women’s Soccer League and will end her career at the top of her sport. Perhaps nothing exemplified her ability to perform under pressure more than when she scored twice in a quarterfinal against France at the 2019 World Cup. The Americans went on to win that world title, their second in a row. Her six goals at that World Cup helped her earn the Golden Boot as the top scorer and the Golden Ball as the top player.

Persons: Rapinoe, Donald J, Trump, Megan, ” Organizations: National Women’s Soccer League, France, Twitter, Trump White, WIN, Ballon, FIFA Locations: United States

☆ U.S. Women’s World Cup Roster Will Reflect a Team in Transition
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Juliet Macur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Here’s a sentence you see every four years: The United States is a favorite to win the Women’s World Cup. The United States’ résumé is top of its class: The team will head to this summer’s tournament in Australia and New Zealand as the No. 1-ranked women’s soccer team in the world and the two-time defending champion. And unlike any other Women’s World Cup team, it has four tiny golden stars sewn above its jersey crest to show the program’s pedigree of four World Cup titles. It’s likely that more than half of the roster will be World Cup rookies.

Persons: Coach Vlatko Andonovski Organizations: United States Locations: United States, States, Australia, New Zealand, United

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