Category: Professional

Between Heats

We grab a chai with surfer Gabriela Bryan to talk life on the WSL Tour, Sephora splurges, the logistical problems of scrapbooking, being besties with someone you might have to beat in the next heat and the rather enviable reality of spending your twenties chasing the best waves on the planet.

By Glorious

Good Crowd

Fifteen wildly different women, sanctioned violence, mud, bruises, cowboy hats, and an obsessive social life. Rugby shouldn't be the easiest sport to sell to women, yet it has become the most intoxicating proposition in modern sport.

By Glorious

Moore Waves

“This is what we do, but this isn’t who we are.” Carissa Moore spent years chasing results for validation. Now she’s figuring out what competition looks like when you already know your worth.

By Glorious

Solar Eclipse

For 13 nights, Fay Manners lived on the North Face of the Eiger while creating a route nobody had climbed before. The result was Solar Eclipse, and a place in mountaineering history as the first British woman to open a new route on the face.

By Glorious

Cape Epic

Kate Courtney has spent much of the past year doing things she didn’t expect. The two‑time world champion talks risk, rediscovering the fun in racing and returning to the brutal Cape Epic for her new Red Bull film Everything to Gain. What happened next surprised even her.

By Glorious

On Tour

With the Tour de Femmes 2026 about to be in full swing, I spent part of last summer at the Tour de France to understand why that race still holds such a colossal place in cycling culture, and to imagine what the future could look like for women’s competitive cycling.

By Jo Cornish

Higher Love

It took a 1,454-foot free climb to the top of the Empire State Building to secure an unforgettable proposal. But the arrest is only the latest chapter in Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus' extraordinary love story.

By Glorious

EVOLVE Boxing

Behind a roller shutter on an Amersham industrial estate sits a boxing gym full of young fighters, world-ranked coaches, Pilates mums and two wandering French bulldogs. Evolve Boxing Academy is proof that the best stories in sport rarely live where you expect them.

By Glorious

The Matriarchy

As the World Cup arrives in the United States, much of the conversation has focused on what it could do for the men's game. Yet the blueprint for soccer's cultural relevance in America was arguably written nearly three decades ago... by the women.

By Glorious

Glitter & Globes

In Lake Placid, in front of 35,622 fans, Jessie Diggins skied the last race of her career at the first Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Finals ever staged on American snow. We head to one of the most thrilling three-day moments women’s endurance sport has produced in years.

By Glorious