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wispainsighthub.org | Emma Evans |Canadian Women |Angela Walker |Ali Pottinger
In just two years, almost 5000 women and girls have started playing the beautiful game. The Post reporter Hanna McCallum, also a player for Seatoun AFC’s women’s first team, explores the lasting changes football is having on girls, women and their communities. When Scarlett Maddock was asked if she wanted to start a women’s team, there hadn’t been one at Eastbourne Football Club for at least 10 years.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
Female athletes' success at the Paris Olympics, where they won 8 of the 10 gold medals, contributed to an increase in media coverage of women's sport. At the Paris Paralympics, half of the coverage was about women’s sport, which was less than at the Tokyo Paralympics. This drop was likely because female Para athletes won fewer gold medals in Paris (1) compared to Tokyo (6).
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
New Zealand’s most successful ever Paralympian, Dame Sophie Pascoe, has announced her retirement from competitive swimming. Dame Sophie is one of New Zealand’s greatest ever athletes and leaves sport as an eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist and multiple World Champion. Reflecting on her incredible career, Dame Sophie shared her gratitude and aspirations for the future. “Representing New Zealand in the pool has been the greatest honour of my life,” said Dame Sophie.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
London, UK, 6th February Women’s sport in the UK, excluding global tournaments*, achieved its most-watched year ever in 2024, with an impressive 44.7 million viewers tuning in, surpassing the previous record of 37.6 million in 2022, according to the latest Women’s Sport Trust report, with broadcast insight and data from Futures Sport & Entertainment.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
From Paraylympics.org.nz To whet the appetite ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games we launch our series focused on New Zealand’s Paralympic Winter heroes with the journey to the top of the podium with Paralympian #114 Rachael Battersby.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/c... 39 years ago, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) co-founded National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) as a national celebration and advocacy initiative recognizing the achievements of girls and women in sports. Today, NGWSD remains both a celebration and a call to action—honoring strides made, while advocating for the necessary changes to close the remaining gaps in sports for girls and women.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
Photo: FIS Park & PipeArticle: Radio NZNew Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has completed a stunning comeback from injury by winning the FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup in Aspen. It's the third slopestyle World Cup win of her career and first since coming back from injury. Just last week Sadowski-Synnott landed the world's first triple cork in a women's slopestyle competition, which saw her take gold at the Aspen X Games.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
New Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has landed the world's first triple cork in a women's slopestyle competition, which has also seen her take gold in the 2025 Aspen X Games slopestyle competition. The Wānaka local created history at Beijing 2022, winning New Zealand's first ever Winter Olympic gold medal after landing a hugely technical sequence in slopestyle. But the OIympic champion has pushed the boundaries again and the 23-year old can't quite believe what she has achieved in Aspen.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
The accolades won’t stop coming for White Ferns all-rounder Amelia Kerr, who has been named the ICC’s women’s cricketer of the year. Already having banked the women’s Twenty20 player of the year honour, and player of the tournament in the White Ferns’ T20 World Cup victory in the UAE, Kerr has been awarded the Heyhoe Flint Trophy. The 24-year-old becomes the first New Zealander to win the award, on the back of a career-best 12 months, notably in the T20 format.
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2 months ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Steve Landells |Merran Brockie-David |Canadian Women |Suzanne McFadden
A New Zealand women's team has exceeded expectations to reach the quarterfinals of the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup in New Delhi. However, their journey came to an end after losing 71-26 to Uganda in the knockout stages of the competition on 17 January. Despite the defeat, the team's performance represented a significant milestone for the sport in New Zealand, where kho kho is slowly gaining recognition thanks to efforts by the Indian community to promote the ancient game.
