I discovered yesterday, through a scathing comment article in The Guardian, that Golf magazine publishes an annual 'Most Beautiful Women in Golf' list.

It's a whole page of pictures and videos of not just female golfers but also, apparently, wives of golfers, celebrated for their beauty.

The Guardian comment . . .

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My New Year's resolution? Among other things,to blog here more. Every day I think "that's worth looking at" and never get around to it.

So in honour of that, here's a round-up of some stories and issues which have caught my attention in the last week or so.

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Earlier this week the New Statesman . . .

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Last year I blogged about the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, and bemoaned the lack of female representation. It would have been nice to come back a year on and say that everything I moaned about last year had been addressed.

I can't do that.

Last year, Andy Murray won. This year, Andy Murray won.

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I'm writing this from Rio de Janeiro, where I now am for the next two months to work as a sports writer for the Olympic News Service. I suspect I won't have a huge amount of time to spend on blogging about the Games as I'll be writing about them, but I'll try to keep an eye on the sort of coverage the female athletes get . . .

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Spotted on Facebook this morning: this article from Total Women's Cycling reporting that a group of Italian MPs have nominated the Afghan women's cycling team for the Nobel Peace Prize.

There have been a lot of odd nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in the past - a quick Google reveals that Josef Stalin was nominated in . . .

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It's great when female athletes do get the recognition they deserve. The coverage of the Coxless Crew and their magnificent achievement in rowing across the Pacific Ocean (San Francisco - Cairns) was pretty good - although I was bemused to read in The Guardian that the crew were the first "rowing four at a time" to make the . . .

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