I want to make one thing perfectly clear: women athletes have been here — and so has PS.
When I first joined PS in 2018, the team had just wrapped up coverage of the Winter Olympics. We learned that our readers were hungry for sports content — and not just the headlines that dominated other major outlets. They wanted to celebrate the accomplishments of women athletes too. We leaned into that, and we never stopped.
Over the next few years, many of our top-performing stories centered on the superhuman strength of women in sports: Allyson Felix winning a record 12th world championship gold, 10 months after giving birth; Simone Biles performing a triple-double that seemed to defy the laws of physics. When women athletes were treated unfairly, we covered that too. We called out the the sexist criticism of the USWNT for "running up the score" at the Women's World Cup, and took the NCAA to task for providing women's basketball teams with a single rack of dumbbells at the tournament, while men's teams were given a weight room. Readers stayed for all of it.
So, no one at PS was surprised when a sharpshooter named Caitlin Clark, along with a cast of other impressive characters, burst onto the scene in 2023 and made women's sports must-watch TV. We knew that, given equal airtime and coverage, others would see what our audience always had: that women athletes are extraordinary — and deserving of every opportunity.
For those just tuning in, we're revisiting some of our favorite women's sports stories of the year all week long on our social channels and in our newsletters. So read up, and let's get to work building the world these athletes deserve.
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