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SI Staff

The Difference-Makers: Sports Illustrated Reflects on International Women’s Day 2024

One of the best parts of sports is the trash talk.

When Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs in the legendary Battle of the Sexes in 1973, there was plenty of it going around. Riggs spent wasted breath proclaiming that men are superior to women. King was unflinching in proving that women deserve a place in sports right alongside men (and that Riggs was indeed a “male chauvinist pig”). We all know how that match ended.

So what does trash talk for women in sports look like now? Pretty similar to how the men do it, actually.

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