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Hang-time with the Mystics
Team DC and the LGBT community celebrate women in sports tonight while cheering on the Washington Mystics at their last home game of the regular season against the New York Liberty.
The Mystics are having one of their best seasons this year. They were 19-12 as of Tuesday afternoon, third in the Eastern Conference and had already clinched a playoff berth. The team is 12-4 at home this season, 7-3 against teams in their conference.
According to the team’s latest game notes, Mystics forward Monique Currie has been perfect from the free throw line in 13 games so far. In the loss against the San Antonio Silver Stars on July 29, Currie shot a perfect 8-for-8 from the free throw line. She ranks 8th in the league in free throw shooting (136-for-156, .872).
Mystics forward Crystal Langhorne, former University of Maryland player, is tied for first in the league with New York Liberty’s Cappie Pondexter in minutes per game (34.1) and first in total minutes with 1,057.
Mystics second-year forward Marissa Coleman, another former Maryland player, posted her first career double-double in the Mystics recent win over the Tulsa Shock on Aug. 1. Coleman scored a season high 14 points and tied her season and career high in rebounds grabbing 10 boards.
The New York Liberty was 19-11 as of Tuesday afternoon, just ahead of the Mystics in conference standings and had also clinched a playoff berth.
Tonight is also Fan Appreciation and Back to School Night presented by AAA Mid-Atlantic with Camper Reunion brought to you by INOVA Health System. The first 5,000 fans get a Mystics team photo and T-shirt and the first 1,000 fans get Mystics Daily.
Fans can visit the Mystics official web site, wnba.com/mystics to get more information, including game notes with all the team’s standings, stats and honors.
Tickets are $20 in section 104, rows G through P. Contact Wanda Wright at [email protected] for ticket information.
More than a dozen LGBTQ athletes won medals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday.
Cayla Barnes, Hilary Knight, and Alex Carpenter are LGBTQ members of the U.S. women’s hockey team that won a gold medal after they defeated Canada in overtime. Knight the day before the Feb. 19 match proposed to her girlfriend, Brittany Bowe, an Olympic speed skater.
French ice dancer Guillaume Cizeron, who is gay, and his partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry won gold. American alpine skier Breezy Johnson, who is bisexual, won gold in the women’s downhill. Amber Glenn, who identifies as bisexual and pansexual, was part of the American figure skating team that won gold in the team event.
Swiss freestyle skier Mathilde Gremaud, who is in a relationship with Vali Höll, an Austrian mountain biker, won gold in women’s freeski slopestyle.
Bruce Mouat, who is the captain of the British curling team that won a silver medal, is gay. Six members of the Canadian women’s hockey team — Emily Clark, Erin Ambrose, Emerance Maschmeyer, Brianne Jenner, Laura Stacey, and Marie-Philip Poulin — that won silver are LGBTQ.
Swedish freestyle skier Sandra Naeslund, who is a lesbian, won a bronze medal in ski cross.
Belgian speed skater Tineke den Dulk, who is bisexual, was part of her country’s mixed 2000-meter relay that won bronze. Canadian ice dancer Paul Poirier, who is gay, and his partner, Piper Gilles, won bronze.
Laura Zimmermann, who is queer, is a member of the Swiss women’s hockey team that won bronze when they defeated Sweden.
Outsports.com notes all of the LGBTQ Olympians who competed at the games and who medaled.
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US wins Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey
Team captain Hilary Knight proposed to girlfriend on Wednesday
The U.S. women’s hockey team on Thursday won a gold medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime. The game took place a day after Team USA captain Hilary Knight proposed to her girlfriend, Brittany Bowe, an Olympic speed skater.
Cayla Barnes and Alex Carpenter — Knight’s teammates — are also LGBTQ. They are among the more than 40 openly LGBTQ athletes who are competing in the games.
The Olympics will end on Sunday.
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Attitude! French ice dancers nail ‘Vogue’ routine
Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry strike a pose in memorable Olympics performance
Madonna’s presence is being felt at the Olympic Games in Italy.
Guillaume Cizeron and his rhythm ice dancing partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry of France performed a flawless skate to Madonna’s “Vogue” and “Rescue Me” on Monday.
The duo scored an impressive 90.18 for their effort, the best score of the night.
“We’ve been working hard the whole season to get over 90, so it was nice to see the score on the screen,” Fournier Beaudry told Olympics.com. “But first of all, just coming out off the ice, we were very happy about what we delivered and the pleasure we had out there. With the energy of the crowd, it was really amazing.”
Watch the routine on YouTube here.
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