By making the gold medal bout in women’s individual foil, 27-year old Lee Kiefer made history. Never in the history of the sport had an athlete from the United States won an Olympic medal in women’s...

The South Korean women’s archery team won its ninth straight Olympic gold medal on day two of the Tokyo Olympics, defeating the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) 6-0. First-time Olympians An San, Jang Min-Hee...

This weekend, Nino Salukvadze surpassed eight-time Olympians Lesley Thompson-Willie (Canada) and Kerstin Palm (Sweden) to become the only woman in Olympic history to compete in nine Olympic Games. In eight...

Surfing is one of the only sports that awards equal price money to men and women. The sport makes its Olympic debut at the 2021 Tokyo Games.

Syrian table tennis player Hend Zaza, 12, is the youngest competitor at the Tokyo Olympics, as well as the youngest Olympian since 1980.

Tennis player Naomi Osaka, the world’s highest-paid female athlete, lit the Olympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

On Her Turf's day-by-day guide includes key storylines, TV schedule info, and streaming links for the most anticipated women's events at the Tokyo Olympics.

While Canadian soccer player Quinn - a 2016 Olympic bronze medalist - is the first out trans athlete to compete in Tokyo, they won't be the last.

If Simone Biles wants to compete the Yurchenko double pike at the Tokyo Olympics, "She's going to have to beg me," her coach Laurent Landi told On Her Turf.

When Formiga was born in 1978, there was a law banning women in Brazil from playing soccer. Formiga, 43, is making her 7th Olympic appearance in Tokyo.

Jordan Raney was the last player cut from the 2021 U.S. Olympic women's water polo team. In this first-person essay, Raney discusses what she learned about herself in the process.

Coming off the most watched Women's College World Series in history, can softball make a case to be an Olympic Games staple?

At the Tokyo Olympics, Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky could become the first U.S. women to win five gold medals at a single Olympics. And that's not all...

Biles - who enters Tokyo with 5 career medals (4 gold) - could tie or break Shannon Miller's record for most Olympic medals won by a U.S. gymnast (7).

The Tokyo Olympics will mark the third straight Games in which the U.S. Olympic team includes more women than men (329 women vs 284 men).

Brehanna Daniels made her Cup debut three years ago, joining Breanna O’Leary as the first female tire changers for the same team in NASCAR’s premier series.

At the Tokyo Paralympics, Alia Issa will become the first woman to ever compete as a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team. Issa, a Syrian refugee who lives in Greece, competes in the club throw.

After testing positive for marijuana, Sha'Carri Richardson can't run the 100m at the Olympics. But it's possible she could compete in the 4x100m relay.

To become the fastest woman to ever run the 400m hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin and her coach Bobby Kersee reinvented how to approach the event.

The first thing you should know about Athing Mu: how to correctly pronounce her name. Mu, 19, won the women's 800m at U.S. Olympic Trials.

Gymnast Jordan Chiles first dreamed of becoming an Olympian while watching the 2008 Beijing Games. After finishing 3rd at Olympic Trials, she qualified for Tokyo.

Ahead of the heptathlon at U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, Lindsay Flach announced that she would be competing while 18 weeks pregnant.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Allyson Felix and Quanera Hayes will be joined on the U.S. Olympic roster by at least 10 other moms.

At U.S. Olympic Trials, Gabby Thomas became the second-fastest woman to ever run the 200m. The Harvard grad is also pursuing a Master's in epidemiology.

DeAnna Price only needed one good throw to make her second Olympic team, but she went above and beyond at U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials.

483 days after failing to make the U.S. Olympic team in the marathon, Emily Sisson qualified for the Tokyo Olympics by winning the women's 10,000m.

A quick refresher on how four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles - aka the greatest gymnast of all time - became the greatest gymnast of all time.

MyKayla Skinner finished fourth at Olympic Trials in 2016 and went to Rio as an alternate. Five years later, she is in the running for a spot in Tokyo.

Jade Carey, 21, has been training a laid-out triple-double on floor that she could debut at U.S. Olympic Trials in St. Louis.

At U.S. Olympic Trials, Gwen Berry wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘Activist Athlete.’ “My message is very powerful. I want to impact the world.”

Jade Carey is planning to debut her laid-out triple-double - considered the hardest floor skill in women's gymnastics - at U.S. Olympic Trials. 

#30: Carli Lloyd, who will be 39 at the Tokyo Olympics, could become the oldest soccer player to ever win an Olympic medal.

The U.S. women's water polo teams is one of the most dominant teams in the world in any sport. The 2021 Olympic roster was announced on Wednesday.

With one month until the start of the Tokyo Olympics, we take an in-depth look at the 18-player U.S. women's Olympic soccer roster.

Transgender women have been eligible to compete at the Olympics since 2004, but in Tokyo, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard could become the first.

The U.S. women's basketball team for the Tokyo Olympics was revealed on Monday. The team is headlined by 4-time gold medalists Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi.

American runner Nikki Hiltz recently came out as trans. In a powerful essay for On Her Turf, Hiltz describes the strength they found in being vulnerable and visible.

Simone Manuel is one of the greatest swimmers of all time. And at U.S. Olympic Trials, Manuel showed even greater strength outside of the pool.

Heading towards the Tokyo Olympics, Keturah Orji is motivated by the idea of wanting to "put America on the map for women's triple jump."

After running her prelim with a shoe untied, sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson made a statement her win in the women's 100m at U.S. Olympic Trials.

Katie Ledecky won the women's 800m freestyle at U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. She owns the 24 fastest times in the event.

Ahead of U.S. Olympic Trials in track & field, nine-time Olympic medalist Allyson Felix wrote a letter to her daughter Cammy.

At U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, five-time gold medalist Katie Ledecky is getting a preview of just how challenging her schedule will be in Tokyo.

At age 15, Caroline Marks became the youngest female surfer to qualify for the WSL Championship Tour. That's when she started dealing with a new challenge.

"It's a big relief. I'm honestly really glad it's over," U.S. swimmer Regan Smith said after her win in the 100m backstroke at U.S. Olympic Trials.

When the U.S. women's soccer team won the inaugural Olympic gold medal in 1996, NBC's coverage only included a few minutes of the gold medal game.

#40: Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the fastest woman alive, could become the first sprinter (of any gender) to win four Olympic medals in the 100m.