Review of the Boat Races coverage
As a follow-up to my blog on Saturday about the Boat Races I thought I'd do a quick overview of the coverage of yesterday's racing - and my own thoughts about the day.
For me and the women I coach the day began at 9am with an outing on a weirdly quiet and fairly benign Tideway: we had to wait for Cambridge to get on the water . . .
The Boat Races
I'm a rower and this is a blog about sport and the coverage of sport, so it would be remiss of me not to write about the Boat Race. Or, to be precise, the Cancer Research Boat Races.
Tomorrow (Easter Sunday, 27 March) is the second year in which both the men and women of Oxford and Cambridge Universities race each other on the . . .
The biggest sporting event you've never heard of (probably)
On Saturday the banks of the Thames will be packed with rowing boats as over 2,500 female rowers and 320 coxes (some men, some women) gather for the Women's Eights Head of the River Race. This is certainly the biggest female-only rowing event in the world and it must be one of the biggest women-only sporting events in the world.
. . .Posted in: #thisgirlcanrowing
Inspirational women: the Coxless Crew
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 . . .
Posted in: role modelsrowing
Positive images
There are all sorts of studies out there about diversity in all its spheres which show the importance of positive role models and having something to aspire to. Sport is no different.
That's why the lack of coverage of women's sport in the media is potentially so damaging, and why negative comments made about the few . . .
Posted in: #likeagirlmediarole modelsrowing
Me and sport
I've got so much I want to write in this blog and over the past week have been mulling over what to tackle first. But maybe I need to go back to why sport matters for me, first, before I get on to why I think it should matter in a wider sphere.
Most people who know me now would find this odd, but when I was at school I would . . .
Posted in: rowing
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 . . .
