Canadian Soccer Player Quinn Is ‘Proud’ To Be The First Openly Trans Athlete To Compete In The Olympics

Paralympian Tatyana McFadden feared her career was “over” after she was diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder in February 2017. The seven-time gold medal winner, who is known as the world’s best female wheelchair racer of all time, spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife and detailed her “really scary” experience as she underwent surgery to treat the problem.

Non-binary transgender footballer Quinn has made Olympic history (Pic: Jamie Smed)

For the first time ever in the history of the Olympic Games, Quinn, a transgender and  non-binary athlete, has won a gold medal. Quinn has become the only such athlete to ever take home any medal in the Games.  Quinn, 25, was part of the Canadian women’s football team, that beat Sweden 3-2 in the women’s football final to take gold on Friday night. Quinn, a midfielder, was also part of the bronze medal winning Canadian  team at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

She is the first American woman to win the 800m since the 1968 Mexico City Games. #TokyoOlympicspic.twitter.com/WmJq2dYulrPrior to earning bronze in this 800-meter final, the 24-year-old Rogers earned a second-place finish in the 2019 World Athletics Championships.

The perfect plot twist! Simone Biles will compete in the balance beam final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, August 3, after previously withdrawing from the women’s team final and the individual all-around, vault, bars and floor finals.

Simone Biles plans to compete in the balance beam final on Tuesday. The event marks the 24-year-old Team U.S.A.

Simone Biles has withdrawn from two more events at the Tokyo Olympics.The 24-year-old gymnast will no longer be competing in the vault and uneven bars for the individual finals at Sunday’s 2021 Olympics.«Today, after further consultation with medical staff, Simone Biles has decided to withdraw from the event finals for vault and the uneven bars,» USA Gymnastics said in a statement.

Fred Sirieix has proudly gushed over his teenager daughter after she headed to Japan to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.The 49 year old's daughter, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieiex, 16, has been selected for Team GB's diving team. First Dates star Fred took to social media to share images of his daughter stood poolside in her swimming costume as she prepares to compete in the games.

tennis legend Naomi Osaka lighting the torch to kick off the Games, Tonga's oiled-up flagbearer, Pita Taufatofua, once again becoming a trending topic on social media and first lady Jill Biden cheering on the U.S.A.

making headlines in Rio in 2016 and again at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018, Pita Taufatofua brought the heat as Team Tonga took center stage during the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics Friday.

Jill Biden is in Tokyo for the Olympics, attending the opening ceremony and meeting with other leaders from around the world as the head of the U.S. delegation.  The first lady's trip is continuing as planned, despite the dozens of COVID-19 cases linked to the games.

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