Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: All hail Ilona Maher, the U.S. rugby sevens star who is taking home a bronze medal ...

All hail Ilona Maher, the U.S. rugby sevens star who is taking home a bronze medal and has ascended to a new level of stardom, thanks to her pithy putdowns of people who criticize her weight and question her gender identity. Here's Sportico's story about the inexorable rise of the Olympian, who is also a qualified nurse and has an MBA, plus an interview with her on the Business Beyond the Game podcast. "I would love to stay in the rugby space [or] female sports space," she told host Eric Jackson. "I just think there’s so many more options which have been opened because I was weird on TikTok.”

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