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Judo: Japan national women's team gets 1st female head coach

Maki Tsukada, the women's 78-kilogram judo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2024, after assuming the post of head coach of Japan's national women's judo team. The nation's judo governing body decided earlier in the day on the first female head coach of its women's national team.

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Judo: Japan national women's team gets 1st female head coach

Maki Tsukada, the women's 78-kilogram judo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2024, after assuming the post of head coach of Japan's national women's judo team. The nation's judo governing body decided earlier in the day on the first female head coach of its women's national team.

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Judo: Japan national women's team gets 1st female head coach

Maki Tsukada, the women's 78-kilogram judo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2024, after assuming the post of head coach of Japan's national women's judo team. The nation's judo governing body decided earlier in the day on the first female head coach of its women's national team.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken gives an interview in San Francisco in April 2023. Nakken became the first female coach on a Major League Baseball staff when she was hired in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured during pregame practice in San Francisco in April 2023. Nakken became the first female coach on a Major League Baseball staff when she was hired in 2020.

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Virgin Galactic Launches First Tourist Flight To Space

Handout photo shows Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers are celebrated for becoming the first female astronauts from the Caribbean. Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, finally launched its first space tourists to the edge of the cosmos, a major step toward delivering on decades of promises. The company’s rocket-powered space plane, VSS Unity, took off at 8:30 a.m. MT from a New Mexico spaceport attached to a massive twin-fuselage mothership on August 10, 2023. It carried three customers: entrepreneur and health and wellness coach Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers, the first space travelers from Antigua who won their seats in a fundraiser drawing, as well as former Olympian Jon Goodwin, who competed as a canoeist in the 1972 Munich Summer Games. Goodwin became the second person with Parkinson’s disease to travel to space. Photo by Virgin Galactic via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured during pregame practice in San Francisco in April 2023. Nakken became the first female coach on a Major League Baseball staff when she was hired in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken gives an interview in San Francisco in April 2023. Nakken became the first female coach on a Major League Baseball staff when she was hired in 2020.

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First female boxing club opens in Gaza

STORY: First female boxing club opens in Gaza DATELINE: Dec. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:08 LOCATION: Gaza CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of girls boxing in Gaza 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): OSAMA AYOUB, Co-founder & coach of the club 3. various of girls boxing 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): HALA AYOUB, Boxing player 5. various of girls boxing 6. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): HALA AYOUB, Boxing player STORYLINE: The first-ever female boxing club, the Palestinian Center of Boxing for Women, recently opened in Gaza, where the sport is mostly popular with men. Osama Ayoub, a co-founder, came up with the idea of setting up such a club six years ago and started to train a group of girls in 2017. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): OSAMA AYOUB, Co-founder and coach of the club "I came up with the idea to create a female boxing team six years ago when I participated in a boxing competition in Algeria, where I saw the fantastic performance given by Arab women of various ages. At first, I started training at small places and later trained

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken (C) is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.

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Baseball: Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken

San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken is pictured ahead of a game against the Los Angeles Angels on June 22, 2021, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. The former softball standout became the first female coach in major league history in 2020.