football in january. fellow forward antoine griezmann has been named as vice captain. aay from football new zealand have announced that scott robertson will be their new head coach from 2024. he ll take over from ian foster after this year s world cup in france. robertson who played 23 tests for the all blacks unsuccessfully applied for the job back in 2019. this time round he was chosen ahead ofjapan coach jamiejoseph. and a big retirement in women s rugby as england captain sarah hunter has announced she s stepping away from the sport. hunter will play her last game for england against scotland this saturday in their opening six nations match in newcastle the city of her birth. and that s all the sport for now. more later on sports day. back to you, ben. a 50 page dossier of evidence, which the former british prime minister borisjohnson
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trying to find a revised date . taylor beat serrano to retain her undisputed lightweight title in new york last may. fly half marcus smith has been left out of england s training squad before their next six nations match against france, with george ford returning for the first time in a year. smith will now return to harlequins which indicates he ll not be in the matchday squad to face france. it also means a long awaited return for ford, who s not played for england since march last year. staying with rugby a first british and irish lions women s rugby tour could be on the cards after a study they commisioned into how feasible it would be came up with positive results. former england international shaunagh brown has been part of a 13 member panel looking at the potential of a women s tour. she s been telling me the findings are really exciting and says the potential of women s rugby is limitless: the next major step will be to decide how the team will be formed and whose team wil
by the early spring of 2021, charlotte says that her mental health was deteriorating. she told the wru she felt broken, the culture was toxic, and she was too ill to return to work. at my lowest point, i thought, enough s enough. i can t. i don t want to be here any more. they beat me down. they won. and you just, at that point think, there s no hope. there s no hope, you know? nobody wants to take this seriously. in april 2021, she began a formal grievance against the wru. with the team struggling on the pitch, the union announced it was doing an independent review of women s rugby. the wru announced it was commissioning an independent review of women s rugby. it was meant to be a long, hard
inside of it, it s just toxic. she quit in 2018 after six years at the wru and says while there was investment in the women s game, not everyone bought in to the idea. some attitudes were, on the pitch we re not equals. and women s rugby was the game for lesbians. it wasn t something they liked. it s something that was played on a sunday, on a day that didn t interfere with the men s game. sometimes that kind of language was used around the national centre of excellence about the national team. it was just the culture. but that was the view amongst some. the national centre of excellence is where wales s top players train and where charlotte says she witnessed worrying attitudes too, including how, in 2019, a male colleague referred to an exercise drill with young women.