Lightweight men: taking the hit for gender parity
It was not a decision rowing's governing body FISA really had any control over. At their Extraordinary Congress in Japan this week those in charge of world rowing had to make a decision to scrap at least one men's event in favour of a women's event of equal size for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The decision has been . . .
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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Should 'hottest' lists be put in the freezer?
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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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 . . .
A stroke in the right direction
"Christmas came early!" exclaimed one of my friends on Facebook yesterday, sharing a post from Henley Royal Regatta (HRR) announcing the introduction of three new women's events to their programme. From next year there will be an equal number of men's and women's events at the top or 'open' level of the regatta, . . .
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 . . .
Posted in: olympicsrole modelsrowingtennis
Henley Women's Regatta
A long-overdue return to blogging. Life has somewhat overtaken the time I needed to properly keep on top of all the news about women's sport - the furore over women's membership of Muirfield golf club was one story I really meant to blog about.
But the reason I started this blog, and the place at which it was born, was Henley . . .
Posted in: rowing
