Category: The 52
Posted on May 19, 2020
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Men are the worst. Ok so that’s a massive, sweeping generalisation (being a man myself I’d like to say that quite a few of us are ok!) but one Twitter post earlier this week has confirmed that there are still a number of colossal… Continue Reading ““Continue to keep proving the t**ts wrong & inspire the masses””
Category: football, The 52Tags: 2019/20 Barclays FAWSL, Boxing, Chloe Morgan, Coronavirus, Covid-19, England, FA WSL, football, Great Britain, Hockey, Hollie Pearne-Webb, Katie Levick, Katie Rood, Kirsty Linnett, Lewes FC, Liverpool WFC, New Zealand, Reading WFC, Remi Allen, Rio 2016, Stacey Copeland, The Hundred, Tottenham Hotspur WFC, Twitter, Yorkshire CCC
Posted on May 11, 2020
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Coronavirus has altered our lives beyond recognition. Almost overnight we changed from being a socially mobile nation, one where millions of people travelled many miles and saw multitudes of people over the course of a single day, to one confined to our homes. For… Continue Reading “Find those Raes of sunshine to help you through tough times”
Category: Cricket, The 52Tags: Alasdair Hooper, Coronavirus, Cricket, London, Mental Health, Middlesex, Middlesex CCC, Mintridge Foundation, Olivia Rae, Scotland, SportSpiel
Posted on April 20, 2020
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With the current global coronavirus pandemic shutting down the world, it is feared that all the progress that has been made with the acceptance and growth of women’s sport could be undone. With many leagues, governing bodies and teams facing significant financial difficulties, the… Continue Reading “Totally Runable KickStart Poster Project To Reduce Sport Gender Gap”
Category: The 52Tags: #SeeSportyBeSporty, 2008 Olympics, Athletics, Beijing 2008, Coronavirus, Emily Freeman, Jenny Meadows, KickStarter, Natalie Jackson, Olympics, Running, School, SportSpiel, Totally Runable, Women's Sport, World Athletics Championships
Posted on April 9, 2020
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Ollie Godden spoke to former England cricketer Laura MacLeod about her new role as Director of West Midlands Cricket Limited & how she hopes to inspire more girls and women than ever before to pick up a bat or a ball. Stories of early… Continue Reading “Former England international MacLeod hoping to inspire new generation”
Category: Cricket, The 52Tags: 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup, Anya Shrubsole, Crewe, Crewe Rolls Royce, Cricket, Cricket Australia, ECB, England, Hockey, Katherine Brunt, Laura MacLeod, MCC, Swimming, WBBL, West Midlands Women's Cricket Limited
Posted on March 15, 2020
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Photo credit: Brian Cleary, Brian Cleary/BCPix.com While gender equality has grown exponentially across many sports in recent years, motorsport has often been criticised for failing to follow suit. And when it did try to address the issue with the creation of the W Series,… Continue Reading “Katherine Legge & Christina Nielsen: The two women silently leading a motorsport revolution”
Category: Motorsport, The 52Tags: 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, 2017/18 Europa League, 2018 Macau GP, 2018 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, 2019 W Series, 2019 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2020 European Le Mans Series, 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Alessandro Balzan, Alice Powell, Allsvenskan, Andy Lally, Arsenal, Bitske Visser, Christina Nielsen, England, football, Germany, Graham Potter, Great Britain, GT Daytona, Italy, Jamie Chadwick, Katherine Legge, Motorsport, Ostersunds FK, Sophia Floersch, Sweden, The Netherlands, USA, W Series
Posted on February 23, 2020
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It’s always sad when one of sport’s greats decides it’s time to step away. But Alex Danson-Bennett doesn’t want us to be down. She wants us to celebrate what she achieved across 18 incredible years. However we don’t want to just applaud her career,… Continue Reading “Thank You Alex Danson-Bennett”
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: 2017 Investec Internationals, 2018 Vitality Hockey Women's World Cup, Alex Danson, Alex Danson-Bennett, Argentina, Australia, England, Great Britain, Hampshire, Hockey, Ireland, Maddie Hinch, New Zealand, Newsround, Olympics, Rio 2016, Spain, The Netherlands, USA
Posted on February 22, 2020
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Shona McCallin looks back on an exciting tour for GB Hockey to Australia and New Zealand and how it felt to make her FIH Hockey Pro League debut, score her first GB goal and make her 50th appearance. It’s crunch time for a lot… Continue Reading “Heat, storms & goals – McCallin reflects on first tour of 2020”
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: 2020 FIH Hockey Pro League, 2020 Olympics, Argentina, Australia, Brisbane, China, FIH Hockey Pro League, GB Hockey, Germany, Great Britain, Hockey, Mark Hager, New Zealand, Olympics, Shona McCallin, South Africa, Sydney, The Netherlands, Tokyo 2020, USA
Posted on February 18, 2020
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Photo credit: British Athletics Jemma Reekie is a track and field superstar in the making. The middle distance runner has shot to prominence this indoor season, smashing three records in the last month. She also took 1500m victory in the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix… Continue Reading “Forget the Nike controversy, can we just accept Jemma Reekie for the exceptional talent she is?”
Category: Athletics, The 52Tags: 1500m, 2017 European U20 Athletics Championships, 2018 Athletics World Cup, 2018 European Athletics Championships, 2019 European U23 Athletics Championships, 2019 World Athletics Championships, 2020 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix, 2020 Indoor British Championships, Athletics, Brigid Kosgei, British Athletics, Eliud Kipchoege, Great Britain, IAAF, Jemma Reekie, Kenya, Kilbarchan, Kilbarchan AAC, Laura Muir, New York Times, Nike, Nike Vaporfly, Olympics, Poland, Scotland, Sofia Ennaoui, The Guardian, Tokyo 2020, World Athletics
Posted on February 16, 2020
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Photo credit: Georgina Roberts Georgina Roberts talks to Alasdair Hooper about a difficult 2019 for her and her family, learning to accept who she is and why she wants to ensure shooting becomes more accepted as a sport. I am Georgina Roberts; I shoot Olympic… Continue Reading “Georgina Roberts: Cancer and transforming a ‘neglected’ sport”
Category: Shooting, The 52Tags: 2019 Women of the Future Awards, 2020 Malaga Grand Prix, BASC News, British Shooting, Clay Shooting Magazine, Georgina Roberts, Great Britain, Mintridge Foundation, Olympic Trap, Olympics, Shooting, SportSpiel, Wales, Welsh Clay Target Shooting Association
Posted on January 26, 2020
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Laura Sugar is one of those athletes you can’t help but be jealous of. Many of us can only dream of being skilled enough to play for our country in one sport. Sugar has represented hers in three. She made her debut for Wales’… Continue Reading “Sugar hoping for sweet success at Tokyo 2020”
Category: Athletics, Canoeing, Paralympics, The 52Tags: 2019 ICF Sprint Canoe World Championships, Athletics, Canoeing, Great Britain, Hockey, KL3, Laura Sugar, Leah Wilkinson, London 2012, Para-athletics, Para-canoeing, Paralympics GB, Rio 2016, Rio 2016 Paralympics, Sarah Jones, SportSpiel, Tokyo 2020, Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Wales