A New Year's roundup of sporting inequality
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.
Earlier this week the New Statesman . . .
Cycling to peace?
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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Attacking with stats
I'm a journalist. I love a good quote, anecdote and observation. But in the past few years I've learned that data can provide some of the best stories.
And in the argument for improving women's representation in sport I think data is a key tool. So before I start looking into the problems I wanted to pick out a few of . . .
