Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Don’t call me an ‘influencer’
BBC In just four years Jamie Genevieve has gone from department store make-up girl to social media sensation, amassing more than a million Instagram followers…
A bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border
Jonathan Head and BBC Burmese BBC News Watch: The insurgent Arakan Army video of their capture of the barracks The end, when it came for…
Rio 2016 Paralympics: Dame Sarah Storey and Hannah Cockroft win gold
13:00 – Defending Paralympic champion Natasha Baker in equestrian’s dressage Grade II individual championship test final 13:00 – Jeanette Chippington in Para-canoeing women’s KL1 final…
Congress passes immigration crackdown in early win for Trump
The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.…
Paralympics 2012: Josie Pearson wins discus gold for Great Britain
GB’s 4x100m medley relay team won silver in the pool, while the men’s and women’s table tennis teams won bronze. It is a first Paralympic…
GB wheelchair basketball coaches depart roles
Great Britain women’s wheelchair basketball coach Garry Peel has left his role after seven years in charge. His departure follows that of men’s coach Murray…
Track Cycling World Cup: GB’s Katie Archibald & Manon Lloyd win madison gold
Britain’s Katie Archibald fractured her wrist as she and Manon Lloyd won the inaugural women’s madison at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow. The…
Women’s Sport Week: Nicole Cooke on fair pay & corruption
For some, of course, success and the money it brings overrides fairness. So if it’s life-changing wealth and the greed it generates that corrupts fairness,…
Dina Asher-Smith: British sprinter calls for greater exposure of elite sporting females
Dina Asher-Smith wants the sports industry to consider “who we elevate, and why” in order to help young girls grasp what they are capable of.…
World Athletics Championships 2017: Eilidh Doyle named GB captain
Men 100m: James Dasaolu, Reece Prescod, CJ Ujah 200m: Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Danny Talbot 400m: Dwayne Cowan, Matt Hudson-Smith, Martyn Rooney 800m: Elliot Giles,…