REVISTA MATA JOVE
Curso 2015-2016
REPORTAJES
Women in sport
A League of their Own (1992)
Directed by: Penny Marshall
Starring: Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman, John Lovitz, Rosie O’Donell.
Plot
The story begins When World War II threatens to shut down Major League Baseball and candy magnate and Cubs owner Walter Harvey to bankroll a women's league and enlists agents to scour the country to find women who could play ball. In the backwoods of Oregon, two sisters -- Dottie (Geena Davis) and Kit (Lori Petty) -- are discovered.
Dottie can hit and catch, while Kit can throw a mean fastball. The girls come to Chicago to try out for the team with other prospects .There they meet Mae Mordabito (Madonna), Doris Murphy (Rosie O'Donnell), and Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh). They and others are selected to form the Rockford Peaches. The team's owner, Walter Harvey (Gary Marshall) needs someone to coach his team and he picks one-time home-run champion Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), who is now a broken-down alcoholic. After a few weeks of training, as Dugan sobers up, the team begins to show some promise. By the end of the season, the team has improved to the point where they are competing in the World Series.
Sport women in the film:
A League of Their Own is based on the real lives of professional women baseball players during World War II. Since the men are at war sport executives decided to recruit women to play baseball professionally.
This film shows that women are as capable as any man although they are represented in a contradictory manner. Women in the film are tough and they endure bruises but they are also chosen not only on their athletic ability but their physical appearance. Tom Hanks, who plays the role of the coach for the Rockford Peaches, makes a memorable quote, “There’s not crying in baseball” when one of the women shows a vulnerability.
Women’s participation in sport has a long history. It is a filled with achievements made in the face of numerous barriers based on gender discrimination. Women were often perceived as being too weak for sport, particularly endurance sports, such as marathons, weightlifting and cycling, and it was often argued in the past that sport was harmful to women’s health. Female participation in sports rose dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the last quarter, reflecting changes in modern societies. Although the level of participation and performance still varies greatly by country and by sport, women's sports have broad acceptance throughout the world in the 2010s. The 2012 London Olympics were the first games of their kind in which women competed in every sport.
Women in sport
Outstanding women athletes throughout history
Charlotte Cooper was born on 22 September 1870 in Ealing Middlesex, England. She was an English female tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became the first female Olympic champion. She had an offensive style of playing, attacking the net when the opportunity arose. Her main strengths were her steadiness, temperament and tactical ability. Her excellent volleying skills stood out at a time when this was still a rarity in ladies tennis. She died on 10 October 1966 at the age of 96 in Helensburgh, Scotland. She was elected to the World Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.
Charlotte Cooper
Edith Cummings
Edith Cummings was born on 26March 1899, she was an American socialite and one of the premier amateur golfers of her generation. She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago, at the end of the First World War. She became nationally famous following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine, a major step in women's athletic history. She died in 1984.
Nadia Comăneci was born on November 12, 1961 in Onești, Romania. At the age of 14,Comăneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. During the team compulsory portion of the competition on July 18, her routine on the uneven bars was awarded a perfect ten. She was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event.
Nadia Comăneci
Florence Griffith
Florence Griffith, also known as Flo-Jo, was born in Los Angeles, California on 21 December 21 in 1959 .She was an Olympic gold medalist. She is considered the fastest woman of all time, still holding both world records for 100 m and 200 m events. She was a person who wanted to make a fashion statement while running so fast that you could even barely see the outfit she wore. She retired after the 1988 Olympics.
She also won two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000, Comăneci was named as one of the Athletes of the Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy.
On 21 September in 1998, she died unexpectedly of an epileptic seizure at her home in Mission Viejo, California. She was 38 years old at the time.
Teresa Perales Fernández
Teresa Perales Fernández was born in Zaragoza,Spain, on 29 December 1975. She is the most decorated Spanish Paralympian in history. In 1995, at the age of nineteen, Perales was diagnosed with neuropathy and lost the use of her legs within three months.
She has won a total of 22 Paralympic medals.She made her national team debut at the IPC (International Paralympic Committee) Swimming World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1998, where she earned a bronze medal. She then went on to compete in the 1999 European Championship, 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2001 European Championships, 2002 IPC World Championship, 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2006 IPC World Swimming Championship, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won six medals.
Serena Williams
Serena Williams was born on September 26 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan is an American professional tennis player, who is ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and achieved this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013.]
She is the reigning champion of the French Open, Wimbledon and Olympic women's singles and doubles. Williams is regarded by some commentators and sports writers as the greatest female tennis player of all-time. She holds the most major singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles combined amongst active players, male or female.
Because of her sporting achievements, Teresa Perales was awarded the Gran Cruz del Mérito Deportivo and the Medalla de Oro de la Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo. She has earned several other honors including being named the Woman of the Year by the Spanish women's magazine Mujer hoy
