Azerbaijani archer Yaylagul Ramazanova, competing while six-and-a-half months pregnant, said she’d felt her baby kick before she took a shot – and then shot a 10, the maximum number of points
Nada Hafez of Team Egypt celebrates her victory against Elizabeth Tartakovsky of Team United States on July 29 in Paris.Many Olympic athletes take to Instagram to share news of their exploits, trials, victories and heartbreaks. After her fencing event ended last week, Egypt’s Nada Hafez shared a little bit more.“What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three!” Hafez wrote, under an emotional picture of her during the match.
“When I was throwing my body around fearlessly, and going for gold for our country, I was pregnant,” she said on “Today” after the London Games in 2012. She and husband Casey had only started trying to conceive right before the Olympics, she said, figuring it would take time. But she felt different, and volleyball partner Misty May-Treanor said to her – presciently, it turned out – “You’re probably pregnant.
But in fencing, says the Boston-based Ackerman, there is clearly protective padding for athletes, and in less physically strenuous sports like archery or shooting, there’s absolutely no reason a woman can’t compete. Williams welcomed Adira River Ohanian in 2023, joining older sister Olympia. And Olympia was the name that U.S. softball player Michele Granger’s mother reportedly suggested for the baby Granger was carrying when she pitched the gold-medal winning game in Atlanta in 1996. Her husband suggested the name Athena. Granger preferred neither.
For the sake of her career, she said, she doesn’t plan to have children in the near future: “As long as I can avoid it for the sake of my sport, I will postpone it because I am not ready for that yet.”
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