The women's world of sports unfortunately lost a trailblazer in the advancement of women in sports; specifically skiings. It was very sad news to hear that Sarah Burke has passed away after sustaining injuries in a training run last week.
I was recently asked to take a survey on the 'news' and one of the questions was what do you not like about how you receive news; my response was that it is always sad and that we don't hear the good things going on in the world (or at least not often).
Sarah Burke was a very talented female skier. She was the first competitive free style skier, and lobbied the X-Games to include women in competition. She is a 4 time X-Games champion in the skiing superpipe, and lobbied the Olympics to include the skiing halfpipe in the games. (HuffingtonPost).
My beef with the news is if you go back to the years between 2007-2010 they talk about her success in sports (which by no means am I saying this is a bad thing!) but most don't discuss her incredible strength and drive to make females equal to men in the world of skiing!
Aside from the fact that the world lost a beautiful human being, the world of female advancement in sport lost a huge advocate that let very little stand in her way. When I read news articles, I am proud to be a female working towards the advancement of women in sport. I am also proud that there are other (highly prominent) women out there showing our younger generations that they can be advocates too. I hope other females athletes with potential to change our sporting systems step up to the plate and take over what Sarah can no longer do.
I guess what I am saying is I am challenging anyone reading this do get up and DO something. Be an advocate, heaven knows we need more of us out there! Take on the journey of being a positive role model to younger girls in sport.
My "beef" with the media is this: I wonder how much media coverage Sarah Burke received for her accomplishments while she was alive. Did the newspapers report any of the times that she won an X Games title?
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DeleteValid point, the research I quickly just did doesn't show much "news" (via google) about her wins in the x-games. It is another issue with whats going on in the world of news!
ReplyDeleteSometimes we don't achieve the acknowledgement we deserve when we're alive. But when we die, that's when people remember ALL the things that we did. So even though I think the media is completely crap (to be technical)when reporting on women in sport, it's important to note that at some point Sarah's accomplishments WERE recognized... even if it was because she died :(
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