Wanted: female coaches
About a year and a half ago I decided to step down from competitive rowing, while remaining connected to the sport through coaching. Since then I've been volunteering as a coach of our novice women's squad, a task which has been time-consuming but immensely rewarding. I'm thoroughly enjoying meeting a new group of women each year . . .
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Role models
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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Do women's sports "piggyback" off men's?
This morning the chief executive of the Indian Wells tennis tournament stepped down in response to the reaction to one of the most outrageously sexist interviews I've ever read. Raymond Moore said: “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank god that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born because they have . . .
#CoverTheAthlete
The other week a video went viral on Facebook. At least it seemed to - several of my friends tagged me in a share, because the video fits into the whole premise of this blog.
The video's called 'Cover The Athlete', and if you haven't seen it, it's here:
The video overlays genuine questions asked . . .
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