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By this point in the week, you’ve likely seen the viral video of the U.S. men’s hockey team gold medal locker room celebration—and, more to the point, the way many of the players appeared to laugh along with President Trump when he mocked the gold-medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team.
“What should have been a shared moment of national celebration instead landed as a public display of disrespect,” writes Forbes contributor Lindsey Darvin. “It struck a nerve with fans who found the tone dismissive of the women’s Olympic gold-medal victory over Canada, but also reflective of how the U.S. women’s team has been overlooked and underinvested in, despite winning on the world’s biggest stage.”
There’s a lot that I could say about this so-called “locker room talk” (we’ve known since 2016 how the president views what’s acceptable to say in these settings), but I’d prefer to use the rest of this note to focus instead on the accomplishments of Team USA’s female athletes in the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. After all, women won the majority of Team USA’s medals, accounting for 8 out of 12 gold medals and 61% of total medals.
Because of this, I asked Sofia Chierchio—a reporter on our breaking news team who covers sports, and whose reporting helped make our inaugural Power Women in Sports list possible last year—to share her reflections on these Winter Olympics with you,........