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17 May 2021
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The European
Championships couldn’t have gotten off to a much better start for Great
Britain’s swimmers, as they won three medals on the opening night, breaking two
British records in the process.
It was a truly
golden moment in the history of Women’s 4x100m Freestyle swimming in the UK, as
a new-look quartet of Lucy Hope, Anna Hopkin, Abbie Wood and Freya Anderson
were the first British team to ever land the European crown, breaking the
national record in the process.
Having
qualified third quickest, where youngsters Emma Russell and Evelyn Davis
produced strong swims on their senior international debuts, Hopkin and Wood
Not just a pretty face : Alarming boys club culture poses risk to women s health
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Emma Russell is a health reporter for the New Zealand Heraldemma.russell@nzherald.co.nz
Every day, female doctors experience ingrained sexist attitudes, such as being labelled aggressive or hormonal when expressing strong opinions. Not only are they paid far less than their male colleagues, but they re also outnumbered in nearly every speciality. Emma Russell explores the alarming extent this boys club culture is being blamed for undervaluing women s health. Because while gender bias is wrong in any workforce, in the health system, it can kill.
HAD the Tokyo Olympics gone ahead last summer as planned, Kathleen Dawson would almost certainly not have been thinking about winning medals, never mind talking about such a prospect. The 23-year-old has been one of Scotland’s brightest talents in the pool since she was a teenager but a torn ACL in 2018 set her progress back significantly. However, while the one-year postponement of Tokyo 2020 was far from ideal for most athletes, for Dawson, it was a stroke of luck and afforded her the time and space to recover from surgery and regain the form that had seen her win European Championship individual bronze, as well as relay gold, in 2016.