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Jan 25, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
In 2023 UK Sport introduced enhanced guidance so that pregnant athletes could depend on increased and improved support as well as advice on fertility, diet and breastfeeding. However, UK Sport has admitted a need for the guidance to put into practice across Olympic and Paralympic sports. "UK Sport strongly believes that raising a family and being an elite athlete should not be mutually exclusive," the statement said.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
msn.com | Katie Gornall
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
When asked to compare the Women's Super League (WSL) with the elite level of the game in the USA, Holiday thinks the standard is higher in the NWSL, for now. "I think the NWSL [has the edge] right now because of how close all the teams are and how they compete," she said.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Aramco has sponsorship rights for the men's World Cup in 2026 and the Women's World Cup the following yearMore than 100 professional women's footballers have signed an open letter urging Fifa to drop the Saudi oil giant Aramco as a sponsor, calling it a "punch in the stomach" to the sport.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Arsenal's finances have benefited from attracting big crowds to Emirates StadiumThe financial landscape of women's football is changing. More money is coming into the game and investors and sponsors are taking note. With the top two tiers of English women's football under new leadership, the sport is at a crossroads. So what could the financial future hold? And can women's football become big business?
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Sarah Dawkins |Katie Gornall
Media caption, Meet the group investing in women's footballBBC Sport Senior JournalistIn a corner of northern Italy, perched on a sun-kissed lake, lies the town of Como. Renowned as a playground for the rich and famous, it’s a location that has long attracted investors. And now they are here for women’s football. Six months ago, a new investment group called Mercury/13 bought FC Como Women, a mid-table team in Serie A Femminile.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
More than half of female and non-binary football fans questioned for a survey by anti-discrimination charity Kick it Out said they had experienced sexist behaviour or language at matches. Of the 1,502 fans asked, 23% said they felt unsafe at games. From those who had experienced sexist or misogynistic abuse, 85% said they had not reported it, with 46% of those saying it was because they believed it would not make a difference and 43% saying they felt it would not be taken seriously.
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May 1, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Katie Gornall
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Women's Super League was founded in 2011New research monitoring a Women’s Super League club for three years suggests players are more likely to get injured at certain points of their menstrual cycle. The study found the 26 players they monitored were six times more likely to pick up a muscle injury in the days leading up to their period, compared to when they were on their period.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Emma Sanders |Katie Gornall
Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC Sport app and find the most recent in the series. "It was all I thought about and dreamed about. I thought about names every minute. I just knew there was something missing. So I went to an IVF clinic and four weeks later I was pregnant."Katrina Gorry's life changed completely after that.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
bbc.co.uk | Amy Lofthouse |Katie Gornall
When the whistle blew at the end of the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup final, Kat Merchant was overcome with emotion for more reasons than one. Not only had she and her England team-mates just beaten Canada to lift the trophy for a second time, but Merchant knew this would be her last outing in an England shirt. Wing Merchant was struggling with the impact of a number of concussions - a total "probably in the thirties" - from the ages of 16 to 28.
