Oxygen to Air Summer Sports
By R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 5/22/2001 10:43:00 AM
Oxygen Sports will offer a block of women's sports programming, including a new biography-related series, beginning this summer.
The women's network will launch Sports Aside, a new women's biography series of specials featuring a behind-the-scenes look at several famous female athletes. The on-the-field and off-the-field lives of such world-renowned athletes as pole vaulter Stacy Dragila, basketball legend Ann MeyersDrysdaleand race-car driver Lynn St. James will be profiled as part of the series.
The network premiered the series April 25 with a special on Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
Oxygen will also feature coverage of several elite women's sports events this summer, including the Union Cycliste Internationale World Cup of Mountain Bike-Cross Country (May 27); the International Triathlon Union Triathlon World Cup (May 27); the FINA Diving Grand Prix (June 10); the U.S. Open Waterskiing & Wakeboarding Championships (July 1); the Montreux Volley Masters (July 15); the HP Women's Cycling Challenge (July 29); and the LPGA Canadian Women's Open (Aug. 18 and 19).
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