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[StevenHW]

...perhaps the most embarrassing week in the history of women's sports!

From another message that I go to, and it's from 2008...

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Some "negative news" incidents involving female athletes this past week:

(1.) Shayla Worley broke her right fibula last Friday (18th of July) just below the knee during warm-ups for the Olympic selection camp, which essentially ended her chances of making the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team.


(2.) American soccer star Abby Wambaugh, the biggest scorer on the U.S. National Soccer Women's Team, broke her left leg during a tune-up game against Brazil, and will miss the Beijing Olympics.


(3.) The Danica Patrick/Milka Duno standoff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXDEPrIr9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcOogBzSY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA_1rgr_PP4

[A few months before that incident, Danica was about to angrily confront another racer, Ryan Briscoe, on the pit lane at the Indy 500.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNbnBdaEmU


(4.) Disgraced former Olympic athlete Marion Jones trying to appeal to the U.S. President to ask for a presidential pardon, which probably will not happen.


(5.) Regena Jackson, a leading scorer on the Louisiana-Monroe women's basketball team the previous season, was arrested early Saturday for firing a gun from an apartment balcony, a university spokeswoman said, and was dismissed from school.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story?id=3506474


(6.) Olympic swimmer Jessica Hardy tested positive for Clenbuterol during the U.S. Olympic trials.


(7.) Michael Lohberg, the coach of U.S. Olympic swimmer Dara Torres,
was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare and potentially fatal blood disorder.


(8.) And, finally, of course, the Los Angeles Sparks-Detroit Shock brawl.


Yep, tough week for women's sports!

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