“I wish that same confidence for every woman. “I wake up in the morning and think: ‘I’m a beautiful woman,'” Gray said. sports universe where women are allowed to be the stars of the show.Īnd, if you ask me, that’s a beautiful thing. Wrestling is an open door for that.”įrom gymnast Simone Biles to swimmer Katie Ledecky, the Olympics are the one small corner of the U.S. “We don’t need to be 100 pounds in order to be considered an athlete as a woman. But we don’t have a lot of sports in the United States, especially at the youth level, that allow big women to excel.” Gray said. They get recognition and applause for mass moving mass. “Football gets highlighted for large boys. Women no longer need apologize for roaring when they flex their muscle. Kiszla: Best reason to believe Broncos can beat Cincy in crucial game? Uncle Vic. Kickin’ It with Kiz: From the Avs to Kyrie Irving, there’s trouble in COVID winter forecast for sports Kiszla: Where did the love go in Broncos Country? Safety Justin Simmons yearns to win it back. Kiszla: Broncos need to end the heartache, fire coach Vic Fangio and get on with restoring lost credibility
But the Broncos’ problems far bigger than poor coaching. Fiercely staking out a piece of turf in the box, Horan’s scored on a header off a corner kick during the final minute of the first half against New Zealand to stake the Americans to a 2-0 lead. And at age 27, she’s in her prime and a dominant force in the middle of the field for Team USA. ” I was not enjoying myself and there was just so much wrong being done that I lost the love for the game.” “I felt like I wanted to quit soccer,” Horan recalled on the pod. The toxicity of working for PSG made Horan wonder if the thrill was gone for a game she had adored since childhood in Colorado. “I started shaking I was so mad,” Horan said in an interview with Cari Roccaro. Despite acing a preseason fitness test, Horan recounted on the Butterfly Road Podcast how Benstiti announced to the team she wouldn’t see the pitch until losing weight. When a teammate enjoyed a post-game snack of chocolate on the team bus, Benstiti crassly told her it was unwise to present such sweet temptation anywhere near Horan.
PSG coach Farid Benstiti regarded her as chubby and wasn’t the least bit subtle about bashing Horan for failing to meet his preconceived ideas of how a soccer kit should hang on the female frame. Instead of a dream come true for a teenage phenom, it quickly turned into a nightmare of body-shaming abuse for Horan. She hopped a plane to France and joined Paris Saint-German, among the most iconic soccer clubs in the world.
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Straight out of Golden High School, Horan had the skills to turn pro in 2012. That realization has has helped my confidence enormously.” It’s for me to be strong, powerful and dynamic as an athlete. “That’s why I have muscles on my shoulders and big thighs. My body is shaped for the goals I want to achieve. And that helped me understand my body is really something special. “Athletics have been a place where I was always able to thrive. “In middle school, I think every young woman goes through body-image issues,” Gray said. Both Horan and Gray, however, had to struggle with issues of body positivity as a result of the very athletic prowess that allows them to be dominant on the wrestling match and the soccer pitch. They are strong women as big, bad and beautiful as the Rocky Mountains.
We mention this because the loudest thrills for Colorado at the Summer Olympics will almost certainly be the happy noise made by Gray and Horan.
In Tokyo, Gray is the favorite to take home a gold in the 167.5 pound weight class. She was born in Denver 30 years ago to a father and mother that encouraged her to wrestle to win and dream big. Kiszla: After kicking USWNT teammates in the keister, Lindsey Horan flexes muscle in strong 5-1 victory against New Zealand Close Menu
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