Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
World Athletics Championships 2023: Britain’s Ben Pattison claims shock 800m bronze
The British women’s team saw their medal hopes ended by an unfortunate injury to Asher-Smith last year, but they achieved their target in Budapest. Asher-Smith,…
World Athletics Championships: How a teenage Dina Asher-Smith and her relay team-mates started a medal-winning era in Moscow
Their bronze was sufficient for the new UK Athletics hierarchy to change tack and restore women’s 4x100m funding for the following year. It also sparked…
Caster Semenya: United Nations criticises ‘humiliating’ IAAF rule
Plans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels “contravene international human rights” says the United Nations Human Rights Council. Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya,…
11 of the best TV shows to watch this February
Netflix From the return of HBO’s holiday-resort satire to a political thriller starring Robert De Niro and the latest violent period drama from Peaky Blinders…
Salford’s We Invented The Weekend festival celebrates leisure time
Gemma Parker Thousands of people came together to dance in the festival-closing Free Time Parade Thousands of people have celebrated the weekend at a festival…
Jonathan Morgan: Leicester City manager leaves position with club bottom of WSL
Jonathan Morgan has left his position as manager of Leicester City after seven years in charge. He guided the club to the Women’s Super League…
Tidal lagoon in Bristol Channel could bring 120 years of clean energy
Daniel Mumby Local Democracy Reporting Service A proposed lagoon would run from Minehead to Watchet in Somerset Building a tidal lagoon in the Bristol Channel…
Scotland’s Erin Cuthbert confident before World Cup qualifiers
Chelsea forward Erin Cuthbert hopes to carry recent club success into Scotland Women’s World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Poland. The 19-year-old was part of…
Chloe Kelly to be offered freedom of Ealing
PA Wire Ealing’s Chloe Kelly scored the winner in Sunday’s final England footballer Chloe Kelly is set to be offered the freedom of a London…
‘I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal’
Marwa Elselehdar Marwa Elselehdar is Egypt’s first female ship’s captain Last month, Marwa Elselehdar noticed something strange. News had broken about a huge container ship,…