Fair Play

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.

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February 29, 2016

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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February 23, 2016

Sexist nations?

It's rugby time again! Yes, the Six Nations tournament has started, pubs are revelling in showing the matches on the big screen and selling lots of beer.

But wait. It's not just the rugby-playing men of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales who are taking to the pitches right now. It's also the rugby-playing . . .

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Posted in: mediarugby

February 10, 2016

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 . . .

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January 26, 2016

Using football for good: Isha Johansen and Power Play

So far this blog has primarily been about the representation of women in sport. But today I want to widen the scope and look at how sport can be a means of empowerment for all and a genuine force for serious good.

Earlier this week my day job as a legal journalist and my love of sport and interest in equality all combined with a . . .

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January 15, 2016

News roundup for the New Year

Blogging has not happened recently and I mean to blog more regularly from now on (about the only New Year's resolution I'm actually planning to keep this year).

In the meantime, here are some brief thoughts on recent news involving women in sport:

IAAF Ethics Commission

The International Association of . . .

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January 10, 2016

Sports Personality of the Year: the show

It's Sports Personality of the Year night! I'm sort-of live-blogging this - sort-of in the sense that it'll be published after the night's over. Let's see what prominence female athletes get ...

The opening montage wasn't hopeful, with only a few women featured, including of course Jessica Ennis-Hill and . . .

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Posted in: role modelsspoty

December 20, 2015

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