🥎 The background
Everything you need to know about AU Softball 2024
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Hope you have some extra screens at the ready — not only is today the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, it’s also the start of the fifth annual Athletes Unlimited (AU) softball season.
July 26, 2024
⚙️ How it works
A Paris 2024 Olympic Games women's soccer preview
The Olympic Opening Ceremony doesn’t sail down the Seine until tomorrow, but the women’s soccer tourney kicks off in just a few hours. Always ahead of the game.
July 25, 2024
⛴️ Open ’er up
The Paris 2024 Olympics officially begin with an ambitious Opening Ceremony
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The glitz, the celebs, the ’fits — there’s nothing quite like the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Here’s what to expect from what’s bound to be an epic display in Paris.
July 25, 2024
🇨🇦⚽ This is very bad
New report alleges long standing culture of spying by CanWNT and CanMNT staff
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Canada Soccer’s drone scandal escalated yesterday with a jaw-dropping TSN report that staff members and contractors from both CanWNT and CanMNT have used drones to spy on other teams for years, including during CanWNT’s gold medal run at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Canada Soccer has since suspended CanWNT head coach Bev Priestman, citing “additional information” about drone use prior to the Paris Olympics. Shocking doesn’t even begin to cover it.
July 25, 2024
🤸 First-time sport: Breaking
Everything you need to know about the new Olympic sports debuting at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
We’re coming in hot with another Olympic Special Edition — this time, with everything you need to know about the new (and new-ish) sports gracing the Paris 2024 Games.
July 24, 2024
🇺🇸⚽ Time makes you bolder
Everything you need to know about No. 5 USWNT at the Paris Olympics
The No. 5 USWNT begin their Olympic revenge tour tomorrow, taking on No. 64 Zambia at 3 p.m. ET, so here’s a deep dive on the red, white, and blue.
July 24, 2024
🇺🇸⚽ 66 seconds
No. 5 USWNT tops No. 64 Zambia 3–0 in Paris Olympics opener
The No. 5 USWNT’s journey back to the Olympic podium began with a comfortable 3–0 win over No. 64 Zambia yesterday, a dominant three-point showing from start to finish. That’s more like it.
July 24, 2024
🇫🇷 Bienvenue à Paris
A guide to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
July 23, 2024
In preparation for the biggest two weeks in international sport, we’re coming at you with a three-part Olympic primer, starting with today’s overview of the Games.
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Ep #384

Gender parity at the Paris Olympics

July 25, 2024
Gender parity at the Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics are almost here!

In a very special episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz dive into gender parity at the Olympics, sponsored by our pals at Canadian Tire. Since 1900 when women first competed at the Olympics to 2024, there’s been enormous progress in terms of gender equity at the Games — and the Paris Olympics will be the most equitable ever.

In addition to discussing the history of women at the Olympics, this episode features two insightful conversations with Kim Saunders of Canadian Tire and Julia Wilkinson, a former Team Canada Olympic swimmer, who have both seen the growth of women’s sports firsthand from a business and athlete perspective. Trust us — you don’t want to miss this.

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⭐ Never shine if you don’t glow
Team WNBA upsets Team USA for the second time in spicy All-Star Game matchup
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In case you missed the memes, WNBA All-Star Weekend (ASW) turned 115-degree Phoenix into Arizona’s hottest club. From the Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Gray’s Skills Challenge payday to Saturday’s spicy, sold-out All-Star Game (ASG), here’s what made this ASW extra special.
July 22, 2024
🏀 Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane
WNBA legends head to Phoenix for 2024 WNBA All-Star Weekend
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Grab your finest Pitbull aviators because the brightest stars in the WNBA will shine across two banner nights of All-Star festivities from Phoenix, Arizona. The weekend includes a 3-Point Contest, Skills Challenge, the actual All-Star Game, and a concert from Mr. 305 himself. Here’s what you need to know before the fun begins tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Dale.
July 19, 2024
⚙️ How AU Pro Lacrosse works
Everything you need to know about AU Lacrosse
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The new Athletes Unlimited (AU) Pro Lacrosse season is finally here, and the timing couldn’t be better — thanks to AU vets, NCAA superstars, and future Olympians, the game is more popular than ever.
July 18, 2024
⛳ It’s the oldest story in the world
The 152nd Open championship begins from Scotland tomorrow
The final men’s golf major of the season tees off from the birthplace of the sport tomorrow, with a record $17M purse and the Claret Jug — golf’s most coveted trophy — on the line. Fore!
July 17, 2024
🏒 What’s going on?
Troubling allegations of workplace abuse within PWHL Minnesota
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Less than two months after hoisting the inaugural Walter Cup, PWHL Minnesota is facing troubling allegations of bullying and verbal abuse amid an offseason already rife with controversy. As detailed on the latest episode of The GIST of It, here’s a timeline of the fallout that followed Minnesota’s championship win on May 29th.
July 17, 2024