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Jul 27, 2024 · Nelly Korda found love off the green with Andreas Athanasiou. The pro golfer, currently ranked No. 1 on the LPGA Tour, has been in a relationship with the Chicago Blackhawks center since 2019 ...
Sep 6, 2019 · Production companies: El Viaje Films, Quijote Films, Kundschafter Filmproduktion, Pomme Hurlante Films. International sales: Stray Dogs Films, lison@stray-dogs.com
Aug 19, 2021 · The couple have dated since 2019, after first sharing their relationship on Instagram with a selfie in a celebration of Thanksgiving. A photo posted by on Athanasiou joined Los Angeles Kings at the beginning of the 2020-21 season, having previously played for Edmonton Oilers and most notably Detroit Red Wings, where he plied his trade for five seasons between 2015 and 2020.
- Gabriele Grunewald
- Barbara Hillary
- Jerrie Cobb
- Toni Myers
- Gert Boyle
- Clora Bryant
- Katreese Barnes
- Dorothy Rowe
- Alicia Alonso
- Shuping Wang
It takes endurance and speed to be a middle distance runner. Gabriele Grunewald had both. For a decade, the professional athlete pushed herself on the track and in her battle against cancer, until her death at 32. After the cancer returned, again, she shared her struggle with the New York Times: View Gabriele Grunewald’s obituary
For some, surviving lung cancer at age 67 would be enough of a challenge. But not for Barbara Hillary. After discovering that a black woman had never journeyed to the North Pole, Hillary made it her mission, learning to ski and working out with a personal trainer. In 2007 at the age of 75, Hillary became the first black woman at the North Pole. A f...
Long before Sally Ride, there was Jerrie Cobb. She was one of the Mercury 13, a group of women selected by NASA to be the first “lady astronauts.” Cobb completed the same rigorous testing regimen that her male counterparts did, but ultimately was not allowed to fly. Decades later she petitioned NASA, unsuccessfully, to join a space shuttle mission ...
Toni Myers never went to space — “you have to have about nine Ph.D.s and to be extremely fit, neither of which I qualify for,” she once said — but the movies she made gave us an astronaut’s eye view of Earth. A pioneer in IMAX filmmaking, Myers was behind three feature-length IMAX documentaries set in space: “Space Station 3D” (2002), “Hubble 3D” (...
Gert Boyle was “one tough mother.” At 13, her family fled Nazi Germany and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, where her father started a hat company. By 46, after the deaths of her father and husband, she was running the family business — known by then as Columbia Sportswear. First as president, then as chairwoman of the board from 1983 until her deat...
When we think of jazz trumpeters, we tend to think of men like Louis Armstrong or Dizzy Gillespie. Fortunately, no one ever told Clora Bryant that girls couldn’t play trumpet. Bryant dropped out of college to play with the Sweethearts of Rhythm and went on to perform with jazz’s best and brightest including Gillespie (who was her mentor), Armstrong...
Following in the footsteps of female bandleaders like Clora Bryant was Katreese Barnes. This talented musician never won a Grammy. But during her tenure as musical director on “Saturday Night Live,” she took home two Emmys. Both awards were for songs she composed the music for. Both songs featured Justin Timberlake. And one song had a memorable mus...
Dorothy Rowe understood depression, having grown up with a depressive mother. She also understood resilience. Her mother was verbally abusive and ignored her pleas for medical help, leaving Dorothy to manage on her own the chronic lung condition that would plague her the rest of her life. The incredibly resilient Rowe went on to become a leading ps...
Prima ballerina Alicia Alonso, founder of the National Ballet of Cuba, was plagued by chronic vision problems from the age of 19, when a detached retina caused her to spend a year in bed while her eye healed. Her near blindness didn’t slow her ascent in the ballet world and, in Alonso’s belief, was irrelevant to her ability as a dancer: Read more a...
As a doctor in rural China in the early 1990s, Shuping Wang noticed a disturbing trend: the blood that plasma facilities were collecting from local farmers showed alarmingly high rates of hepatitis C and HIV. The diseases were spreading throughout the region, and blood collection facilities, like the one where she worked, were contributing to the p...
Sep 18, 2023 · Her boyfriend, Andreas Athanasiou, is a Canada-based Ice-hockey player in the National Hockey League. He previously played for the Detroit Red Wings (an NHL team). In the season 2019-20, Andreas had a record of 10 goals and 14 assists in 46 games with his former team, the Detroit Red Wings. Currently, he plays for his fourth NHL team, the ...
May 30, 2024 · (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Notably, the two-time Major champion sported a Chicago Blackhawks jersey on the 17th hole at the 2022 Canadian Women’s Open, a gesture towards Athanasiou’s $3 million deal with the Blackhawks. Nelly Korda doesn’t share many details about her personal life on social media channels.
View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Dominika Cibulkova (@domicibulkova) Dominika Cibulkova marries Miso Navara in Bratislava (July 2016) Tennis players' love & dating info: Relationships, engagements, marriages. Ostapenko partner, Sabalenka boyfriend, Pegula wedding photos, and much more.
