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 a notable upturn in fortunes. Despite the departure of Reider – currently serving a one-year probation after misconduct allegations – from British Athletics in 2014, the team’s rise continued unchecked. […]
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, 28, is challenging the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over its bid to restrict levels of testosterone in female runners. The UN called the plans “unnecessary, humiliating and harmful”. […]
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 creator Stephen Knight. BBC/ Bonnie Productions/ Masterpiece/ Robert Viglasky 1. Miss Austen After Jane Austen died, in 1817, her sister, Cassandra, destroyed many of her letters, guarding her privacy and […]
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 in the city where the very concept of the two-day leisure period was invented. We Invented The Weekend saw all manner of events descend on MediaCityUK. Co-founder Wayne Hemingway said […]
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 for the first time last season after they won the Championship title. Leicester currently sit bottom of the WSL table after eight games having not picked up a single point. […]
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 could provide clean energy for 120 years, an MP has said. The proposed West Somerset Lagoon, which would cost £10bn to build, would run nine miles (14km) from Minehead to […]
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 Chelsea’s Super League One and FA Cup-winning side, who also reached the Champions League semi-finals for the first time. Scotland, second in Group 2, host Belarus on Thursday and visit […]
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 borough after winning Euro 2022. Kelly, who scored the winning goal against Germany in Sunday night’s final, is to be offered the freedom of Ealing in west London. The Manchester […]
‘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, the Ever Given, that had become wedged across the Suez Canal, bringing one of world’s major shipping routes to a halt. But as she checked her phone, online rumours were […]
Bethany England: Tottenham sign Chelsea forward on three-and-a-half-year deal
Tottenham have signed forward Bethany England from Chelsea on a three-and-a-half-year deal until June 2026. England, 28, joined Chelsea from Doncaster Belles in 2016 and went on to score 74 goals in 164 appearances. The England international was part of the Lionesses’ Euro 2022 winning squad and has scored 11 goals in 21 games. In […]