When World Of Sport was on ITV you used to get a whole slew of `minority' sports because the BBC had bought up all the big ones. I saw a netball match there once, but it was only highlights to fill in the space before the wrestling started. If football's considered a women's sport over there, it can only be to the good of the sport. It is taken very seriously over here, but not by the media, to our perpetual shame. Generally, the sports we tend to see are the `core' ones like football and cricket, and then the ones we're doing well in at the time. As I said, curling might as well have ceased to exist these days, but there was a time when you couldn't open a paper or put on the news without seeing the British (Scottish) women's team. I note with some optimism that one of the few sports where women seem to compete as equals against men is Indy racing in the States. If you put a woman in an F1 car the entire board of the FIA would suffer a collective conniption fit, but in Indy drivers like Danica Patrick seem hardly to raise comment - they're just drivers.
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Date: 2009-06-23 11:32 pm (UTC)If football's considered a women's sport over there, it can only be to the good of the sport. It is taken very seriously over here, but not by the media, to our perpetual shame.
Generally, the sports we tend to see are the `core' ones like football and cricket, and then the ones we're doing well in at the time. As I said, curling might as well have ceased to exist these days, but there was a time when you couldn't open a paper or put on the news without seeing the British (Scottish) women's team.
I note with some optimism that one of the few sports where women seem to compete as equals against men is Indy racing in the States. If you put a woman in an F1 car the entire board of the FIA would suffer a collective conniption fit, but in Indy drivers like Danica Patrick seem hardly to raise comment - they're just drivers.