Posted on November 13, 2019
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“Daddy, I think I want to be a goalkeeper.” This was the heartwarming statement made by a young girl sat behind me as nearly 78,000 people watched the Lionesses take on Germany at Wembley at the weekend. Despite being no older than six, she…
Category: Cricket, football, Hockey, netball, Rugby Union, The 52Tags: #BeSeenBeHeardBeInspired, #GameChanger, 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2019/20 Barclays FAWSL, Barclays FAWSL, Carli Lloyd, Cricket, England, England Netball, England Rugby, FA, football, Game Changer, GB Basketball, GB Hockey, Germany, Great Britain, Harlequins, Hockey, Lionesses, London 2012, netball, Olympics, Rugby Union, Simon Middleton, Team GB, The Hundred, The Stoop, Twickenham Stoop, USA, WBBL, Wembley, Women's Football Weekend
Posted on October 27, 2019
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Great Britain’s women’s basketball team are ‘on the cusp of something special’. These are the words of Basketball England CEO Stewart Kellett. And he’s not wrong. In 2017, they failed to reach for the main draw at the Women’s EuroBasket event. In 2018, they…
Category: Basketball, The 52Tags: #BeSeenBeHeardBeInspired, 2017 Women's EuroBasket, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2019 Women's EuroBasket, 2020 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Basketball England, Chantelle Hardy, Chema Buceta, England, France, GB Basketball, Gold Coast 2018, Great Britain, Johannah Leedham, London 2012, Minnesota Lynx, Olympics, Rachael Vanderwal, Spain, Sport England, Stef Collins, Stewart Kellett, Temi Fagbenle, Tokyo 2020, UK Sport, WNBA
Posted on October 2, 2019
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Rio 2016 hockey gold medallist Shona McCallin explains how she and her England team-mates will be using their Euros disappointment to ensure GB qualify for Tokyo 2020. I’m back! Back on the international hockey scene after 17 months out of the game and back…
Category: Hockey, The 52Tags: 2019 EuroHockey Championships, 2019 FIH Pro League, Australia, Chile, England, England Hockey, EuroHockey Championships, FIH, FIH Olympic Qualifier, FIH Pro League, GB, GB Hockey, Hockey, London, Netherlands, New Zealand, Olympics, Paris 2024, Rio 2016, Shona McCallin, Spain, Tokyo 2020
Posted on September 30, 2019
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With the 2019 World Athletics Championships well underway, Julia Cook takes a look into the issues of body shaming that have become more and more prevalent in track and field over recent years. There’s no doubt about it, Eilish McColgan is having a sensational…
Category: Athletics, The 52Tags: 200m, 2019 British Athletics Championships, 2019 World Athletics Championships, 3000m Steeplechase, 400m, 4x400m, 5000m, Allie Ostrander, Amber Campbell, Anyika Onuora, ASICS, Athletics, Commonwealth Games, Doha, Eilish McColgan, European Athletics Championships, Great Britain, Greg Rutherford, Hammer throw, Heptathlon, Jess Ennis-Hill, London 2012, Long jump, Middle-distance running, NCAA, Olympics, Qatar, Rio 2016, Scotland, Super Saturday, USA, World Athletics Championships
Posted on June 10, 2019
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Who would’ve thought ten years ago that Great Britain would be one of the world’s leading contenders in the sport of Taekwondo? Indeed, how many of us had even heard of it back then? Yet now our nation currently boasts a roster of international…
Category: Olympics, The 52Tags: 2014 European Taekwondo Championsuips, 2015 World Taekwondo Championships, 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2017 World Taekwondo Championships, 2018 European Taekwondo Championships, 2019 World Taekwondo Championships, Bianca Walkden, Charlie Maddock, European Taekwondo Championships, Flint, Great Britain, Jade Jones, Lauren Williams, London 2012, Lutalo Muhammad, Maddison Moore, Manchester, Manchester Arena, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rio 2016, Taekwondo, Tokyo 2020, World Taekwondo Championships
Posted on March 23, 2019
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How refreshing has it been to see women’s sport dominating the headlines this week? From the announcement of Barclays as the first Women’s Super League (WSL) title sponsor to an ODI series whitewash for England in Sri Lanka, a new government drive to encourage…
Category: The 52Tags: #SeeSportyBeSporty, 2019 Women's Six Nations, Anna Kessel, Barclays, Chelsea, Cricket, Crystal Palace, Dina Asher-Smith, England, football, Great Britain, Gymnastics, Judy Murray, Katie Whyatt, Lionesses, Monica Seles, Olympics, PSG, Red Roses, Renee Hector, rugby, Sheffield United, Simone Biles, Sophie Jones, Sri Lanka, Telegraph Women's Sport, Tennis, The Telegraph, Totally Runable, Tottenham Hotspur, USA, Women In Sport, Women's Champions League, Women's Championship, Women's Six Nations, Women's Super League
Posted on March 2, 2019
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Photo credit: Mike Driscoll “I just felt like a failure. I thought I’d failed at what I’d been trying to do and not only had I not achieved what I wanted, I just didn’t feel able to do anything.” Being a professional athlete is…
Category: The 52Tags: 2013 DMT World Championships, 2013 Trampolining World Championships, 2014 DMT European Championships, 2014 European Trampolining Championships, 2017 British Trampolining Championships, 2017 DMT British Championships, 2017 DMT World Championship, 2017 World Trampolining Championships, 2018 World Trampolining Championships, Azerbaijan, Baku, Bridgwater, British Gymnastics, DMT World Cup, Echo Arena, Five Rivers, French Masters, Great Britain, Hockey, Isabelle Songhurst, Kat Driscoll, Laura Gallagher, Liverpool, Mental Health, Olympic Games, Olympics, Rio 2016, Table Tennis, Taunton Vales HC, Tokyo 2020, Trampolining
Posted on February 2, 2019
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There isn’t much that can be said about Katy Daley-McLean that hasn’t been uttered on numerous occasions already. The caytoo athlete has been an icon of English rugby for more than a decade, inspiring thousands of women and young girls the length and breadth…
Category: Rugby Union, The 52Tags: 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2019 Women's Six Nations, caytoo, England, England Rugby, Harlequins, Ireland, Jonny Wilkinson, Katy Daley-McLean, Lark Davies, Leanne Riley, Loughborough Lightning, Olympics, Owen Farrell, Rio 2016, Rocky Clark, rugby, Rugby Sevens, Rugby World Cup, Sarah McKenna, The Telegraph, The Times, USA, Worcester Valkyries, Zoe Harrison
Posted on January 5, 2019
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As the saying goes, just because someone is an exceptional player it doesn’t mean they will be a good manager or coach. There have been very few who have managed to transgress this stereotype – Pep Guardiola and Kenny Dalglish are two of a…
Category: The 52Tags: 1988 Commonwealth Games, 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup, 2015 EuroHockey Championship, 2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Alex Danson, Alyson Annan, Andy Flower, Australia, Barcelona '92 Games, Cricket, Danny Kerry, England, EuroHockey Championship, Female Coaching Network, FIH, football, Great Britain, Hockey, Hollie Pearne-Webb, Karen Brown, Kate Richardson-Walsh, Kenny Dalglish, London 2012, Maddie Hinch, MBE, OBE, Olympics, Pep Guardiola, Rio 2016, Tamara Taylor, The Netherlands, Tracy Nevill
Posted on December 1, 2018
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You know women’s sport is on the rise when companies are being formed with specific objectives to help it grow even further. That’s exactly what caytoo – an exciting organisation launched earlier this month by former business intelligence quartet Jeremy Thompson, Alex Burmaster, Ellen…
Category: The 52Tags: Alex Burmaster, Amy Truesdale, BBC, Boxing, BT Sport, caytoo, Cricket, Ellen Thornber, Emma Wilson, England, England Netball, FA WSL, football, Golf, Iona Stephen, ITV, Jeremy Thompson, Lord's, Mark Middlemas, National Lottery, netball, New Zealand, Nielsen, Nike, Norway, Olympics, Para-taekwondo, Red Bull, Red Roses, Rio 2016, Rise In Women's Sport, Rugby Union, Shona McCallin, Simon Shaw, Sky, Stacey Copeland, Tamara Taylor, Team GB, Tom Evans, Tyrrells, Tyrrells Premier 15s, UK, Ultra Running, Vitality, Windsurfing
