Anita DeFrantz ’74, the first—and so far, only—Black woman to earn an Olympic medal in rowing, will be inducted into the U.S.

GENEVA — The Afghanistan team's status for the 2024 Paris Olympics was put in question Wednesday by the IOC over growing frustration with the Taliban blocking access to sport for women and girls.

Refugee Olympic team’s Manizha Talash, known as Manizha, wears a jacket reading “Free Afghan women” as she competes in the Women’s Breaking dance qualifying round of the Paris 2024 Olympic ...

Now, as she prepares to step out on the world stage at the Paris Olympics, Manizha reveals her fight to become Afghanistan’s first female breaker. Manizha came to breaking late.

Yousofi, 28, is Afghanistan’s sole female track representative in Paris, part of the country’s six-member Olympic team – made up of three men and three women in a symbolic sign of gender ...

Afghanistan’s first female Olympic breakdancer: ‘I want my big dream’ Defiant breaker Manizha Talash says her spot in the Games shows the courage of Afghan girls, that ‘everyone can ...

"Our girls in Afghanistan, our women, they want basic rights, education, and sport." After being scouted at the age of 16, Yousofi would go on to represent Afghanistan in the 2016 Rio Olympics and ...

The siblings are the first cyclists — male or female — to represent Afghanistan at the Olympics. She finished 26th, ahead of nine other riders, 4:50.89 behind first place (39:38.24).