Female power has been a source of inspiration for others, especially in sports, just as American gymnast Simone Biles once said, "We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give."

Breaking barriers and trailblazing sports, female athletes have exhibited the firm belief that "the potential for greatness lives within each of us," as Wilma Rudolph noted, and "overpower, overtake and overcome," as Serena Williams put it.

Below is a star-studded roster featuring motivational female athletes and sports teams, with their remarkable achievements, athleticism and charisma acting as a shining beacon of hope.

Yang Yang, a former short track speed skater on Team China, has been working as vice president of the World Anti-Doing Agency (WADA) since the end of 2019. She is the first Chinese to take a leadership role in WADA.

Yang made history when she became China's first-ever Winter Olympic champion at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, during which she took two golds and a silver medal in the short track speed skating events.

Throughout her 23-year career, Yang bagged a total of 59 world champion titles, making her the most decorated Chinese athlete in history.

After retirement, Yang joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Woman in Sports Commission and was elected as an IOC member from 2010 to 2018.

"I was an athlete and my passion is to work for the interest of athletes," Yang said during the electing ceremony at the WADA.

"As a result of more female athletes competing in the sports, many very talented female athletes have become heroes and stars which inspire more women and girls come to play sports," she said.

Zhu Ting, captain of China's national women's volleyball team, has been listed as one of International Volleyball Federation (FIVB)'s 100 key players and teams that "have influenced and enraptured the volleyball world" over the past decade.

The Chinese volleyball super star has received 13 Most Valuable Player awards at different levels of competition, including the MVP award at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

After her stint with Turkish club Vakıfbank Istanbul ended in 2019, Zhu moved to Team Tianjin in Chinese Volleyball Super League.

"For sure our main target is the Olympic Games," Zhu said in November, 2020 as quoted by FIVB.com. "I will try to improve myself through the league matches to make sure I can have better performance next year in Tokyo."

Sun Wen, former captain of China's national women's football team, has historically swept the Golden Ball (the best player) and the Golden Boot (the top scorer) awards due to her excellence during the Women's World Cup in 1999.

Also, she became the first woman to be nominated for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Player of the Year in 1999.

Along with American player Michelle Akers, Sun was named as the FIFA Female Player of the Century in 2020.

"During China's golden age of football, Sun Wen became her team's go-to player when they needed a goal. Her goals not only came in quantity, but quality too," Guardian reported as praising Sun as the 20 greatest female football players of all time in 2016.

Shi Tingmao is a member of China's national women's diving team, who dominated the diving world since the 1970s. 

The so called "dream team" demonstrated their dominance across all competitions in Asia and enjoyed their supremacy in several Olympic Games.

In April, 2020, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) picked four stars (Zhang Yining, Liu Shiwen, Chen Meng and Ding Ning) from China's national women's table tennis team out of the five members that forged the best women's team of the 21st century.

Simone Biles has bagged a total of 30 medals at both Olympics and World Championships by the end of February, 2020. The most decorated American gymnast was the first person to land the triple-double jump on the floor exercises in gymnastics.

During the World Gymnastics Championships in 2019, Biles had two skills officially named after her – a triple-twisting double backflip on the floor is officially named the "Biles II" while the double-double tuck (two flips and two twists) dismount off the balance beam is called the "Biles".

"I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all," she once said.

Born in Japan to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother in 1997, Naomi Osaka is now representing Japan to conquer the tennis world.

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No.1 player is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion and the highest paid female athlete ever with $37.4 million earnings from prize money and endorsements throughout a year, Forbes reported in 2020.

Danish international and Chelsea forward Pernille Harder tops the Guardian's list of the 100 best female footballers in the world in 2020.

The prize was her second award in three years after a voting process with a panel of 88 judges

Debuted in 1997 as a youth player, Harder had stints with Danish team Vejlby Skovbakken Aarhus from 2010 to 2012 and Swedish club from Linkoepings FC from 2012 to 2016.

Her time in German side Wolfsburg lasted between 2017 and 2020, before she joined Chelsea in 2020.

Simone Manuel is the first African American female swimmer to win an individual Olympic gold medal and the current world record holder in three swimming relay events.

At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce landed her fist victory at the age of 21, becoming the first-ever Caribbean woman to achieve an Olympic gold medal.

During the 2019 World Championships, she won the gold medal at the age of 32 thus becoming the oldest woman to achieve that feat. Also, she is the only sprinter to win the World Championships a record four times in the 100 meters category.