Of Bolt, boos and bad sportsmanship
Strictly speaking this particular post isn't going to be focused exclusively on women - yet it is partly sparked by tonight's session spent covering women's freestyle wrestling finals for the Olympic News Service. I've never watched any wrestling before and I wasn't sure what to expect; I had vague ideas of large powerful . . .
The influence of the Olympics on women's sport
In the run-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics there has been a steady stream of articles looking at issues such as water quality - for rowing, sailing and open-water swimming - and the risk of athletes contracting the Zika virus through mosquito bites.
To date, most of the top male golfers have pulled out of coming to Rio, with many of . . .
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
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 . . .
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 . . .
