FENCING.

My team, my friends, and my rivals

My friends and I challenge each other daily during practice. We are each other’s source of motivation; we give each other strength to improve and continue.

Among powerful myths Americans cherish is the idea that sports—at all levels, from youth athletics to college sports—are strictly about leisure and play, a realm safely outside of politics. But sports are very much a part of U.S. political life, intertwined with public policies, political debates, and political culture. Gender discrimination cases comprise most of the inequality context in the sports industry.