Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
NI Sports Personality of the Year: Record breaking goalscorer Rachel Furness wins award
The judging panel, led by Lady Mary Peters, selected Furness as the overall winner. Special mention was made of the achievements of Paralympic Gold medallists…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…