Category: Women Doing Amazing Things

PV Sindhu: How India’s Olympic badminton star became a sponsors’ dream on £126,000 a week
After her return from Rio, she received cash prizes from the different state governments and government institutions worth Rs 13 crore (130m rupees – about…

Rio 2016: History for Bolt as women’s hockey team & Skelton add to GB gold haul
Bolt, 29, has said the Rio Games will be his final Olympics as he plans to retire from the sport after the 2017 World Championships.…

Tokyo 2020: Britain’s leading lights in the sports returning for Tokyo
Not a new sport exactly, but baseball and softball return to the Olympic roster in 2020 after being cut from the 2012 and 2016 Games.…

Commonwealth Games 2014: Wales’ six-month countdown
Non Stanford, the current World Triathlon champion, which she won in her first senior season in 2013, is one of the clear favourites for the…

Catriona Matthew keen on role in Europe’s 2019 Solheim Cup team at Gleneagles
“Since I went on the LPGA we’ve had myself, Kathryn Imrie, Janice Moody and Mhairi McKay and since then we’ve not really had anyone progress…

Beth Mead: England forward ‘super proud’ to be back in England squad
Having played a crucial role in England’s Euro 2022 success, winning the Golden Boot and being named player of the tournament, Mead’s injury meant she…

Women’s British Open: Inbee Park wins seventh major at Turnberry
Sweden’s 2009 PGA Championship winner Anna Nordqvist birdied three of the last five holes to finish five under, along with Japanese player Mika Miyazato (73).…

pivoting from work to people
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland Getty Images Recruitment crisis? Boris Johnson says the answer is to pay workers more. That’s unusual from a…

Jayne Ludlow: Wales manager wants fully professional women’s game
England boss Neville agreed with Ludlow, having gone out of his way to praise her side before a question was even asked at his post-match…

Six things to know about the original play
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Matt Humphrey The play is being broadcast across cinemas in the UK next month Fleabag must have sounded like an odd…