Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch celebrates the journeys of Tokyo’s unsung women Olympians & Paralympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. This summer, more than 7,000 women Olympians and Paralympians will compete in Tokyo* These will be the first Games in history that will have equal numbers […]

Mountain Biking & Queer Visibility‪‬ Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch celebrates the journeys of Tokyo’s unsung women Olympians & Paralympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. In this episode, we spotlight, Lea Davison, a 2X Olympic Mountain Biker and 2016 World Championship silver medalist looking to qualify […]

Sitting Volleyball & Black Lives Matter‬   Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch celebrates the journeys of Tokyo’s unsung women Olympians & Paralympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. Nicky is a middle blocker on the USA’s Sitting Volleyball team, and a Rio Paralympic gold medalist. She is […]

Basketball & Entrepreneurship‪   Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch celebrates the journeys of Tokyo’s unsung women Olympians & Paralympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. 2019 Women’s Afrobasket MVP, Ezinne Kalu plays for the reigning African champions, Nigeria’s D’Tigress. While most know Ezinne for her talent on […]

The Women Athletes Blazing the Trail to Beijing Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Blazing the Trail to Beijing celebrates the journeys of unsung women Olympians & Paralympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. Flame Bearers spotlights the people, not the sports, sharing athletes’ rarely-heard stories and providing a microphone for […]