Women’s Sports Week 2016: Susie Wolff on women in Formula 1
It was the middle of last year when I decided to call it a day because I couldn’t really progress from a test driver role. I wanted to give something back to the sport that had given me so much and, together with the Motor Sports Association [the governing body of UK motorsport], we came […]
Katherine Legge: The woman who ‘had to fight and claw’ her way into motorsport
That 2006 crash had followed an uncertain time in Legge’s career. She had tested a Minardi F1 car the year before, but a shot at an F1 drive never materialised despite her ambition to race in the world’s most popular racing category. Instead Legge’s is a career that reflects her assertion of having to fight […]
Charlie’s Angels review: ‘Bland, witless and ludicrous’
Alamy Elizabeth Banks’s reboot of this old franchise is “grimly unimaginative” and “tediously formulaic”, writes Nicholas Barber. The new Charlie’s Angels is one of very few action movies to have been written and directed by a woman, in this case Elizabeth Banks. Its three heroines, played by Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska, come from […]
Meet the Welsh athletes competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
Age: 25 | From: Guildford (Welsh mother) | Event: women’s T38 long jump and 100m Olivia Breen can boast medals from the Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Para Athletics Championships and European Championships. The 25-year-old is now ready for her third Paralympic Games and will be hoping to add to the bronze she won in […]
Para-badminton World Championships: GB’s Rachel Choong on living a sporting dream
Badminton’s debut at the Tokyo Paralympics was a bitter-sweet experience for Britain’s 10-time world champion Rachel Choong. Having first picked up a racquet aged six, she was thrilled that the sport was to be part of the Games but that joy turned to disappointment when her category for female short-stature athletes was not among those […]
The new wave of India’s female Para-athletes forcing a shift in perspective
Bright and bubbly, her fingers dextrously scrolling down social media pages, 19-year-old Palak Kohli seems just like any other teenager. That’s until she steps out on the badminton court. It takes a moment to absorb the athletic ability on show as she flurries through some absurdly quick rallies, forehand and backhand. The transformation is almost […]
Great Britain’s men regain European wheelchair basketball crown after win over Spain
Spain had the better of the early exchanges and led 22-18 after the first quarter before their opponents got into their stride and led 41-34 at the break. With 10 of the British squad playing in Spain last season, both sides know each other well, and the Tokyo Paralympic bronze medallists used their experience to […]
GB’s Warburton targets European Wheelchair Basketball gold
Great Britain wheelchair basketball player Gregg Warburton says he would take team glory over individual honours at this week’s European Championships. The 22-year-old from Lancashire won the most valuable player award at last year’s World Championships as GB won a historic gold medal. And with Paralympic qualification up for grabs in Poland, Warburton wants to […]
Sauber’s Monisha Kaltenborn is F1’s first woman team principal
In May, Sauber transferred a third of team’s equity to Kaltenborn in the form of a gift. He said: “We decided a long time ago that Monisha would take over from me, but we left the timing open. “Now is a good time for both of us, so this is the right moment to pass […]
Amanda Serrano v Eva Voraberger: US fighter on frustrations and sacrifice
Few fighters live what many would describe as a ‘normal’ life. Cutting weight, dehydrating and becoming comfortable with the strain of hunger are commonplace for both sexes in boxing. The occasional social media purge in fight week is also a tried and tested tool to aid application, though Serrano’s choice to only ever own a […]