Amid the acres of coverage of England’s win over South Africa in the rugby autumn test last weekend, there has been no point out of the participant actings on the global degree for the one hundred and fifteenth time, becoming England’s maximum-capped participant inside the system.

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How do we explain this editorial oversight, particularly because the participant scored the opening try in the game, making her a record-breaker? Except for direction, the pronoun gives the game away: the fact that Rochelle Clark became England’s most capped participant with closing weekend’s 12-10 win over Eire, beating Jason Leonard’s 114 caps.

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The 35-year achievement did merit memories with the aid of the BBC, different broadcasters, and the atypical round-up paragraph in print. However, it became effortlessly overlooked in the effusive discussions of Lewis Hamilton’s Method One victory in Brazil or Gareth Southgate’s extraordinary choice to manage the England soccer crew.

Ignoring ladies’ recreation is nothing new, but it became something specific this year. Women lauded within the London Olympics in 2012 accounted for 48% of all the medals gained by Team GB in the Rio Olympics and Paralympics this year. The hockey international cup final was not even on time for the 10 pm information on the BBC, while the Guardian placed a women’s soccer cup very last on its front page.

Yet while the Mum or Dad determined to examine newspaper coverage at some stage in the one week a year committed to showcasing women’s recreation, it found that guys overwhelmingly dominated sports coverage in countrywide newspapers for ladies’ sports Week.

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Research performed by myself and journalist Chris Owen determined that women wrote just 2% of all articles at some point of the week, while fewer than 4% of snapshots featured them. Other than a handful of sportswomen, which includes Maria Sharapova, in the news due to a return to tennis after a tablets ban, the lady partners of male athletes were almost as likely to seem in photographs as sportswomen for the week in October. The pix of the better halves

Girlfriends of the American Ryder Cup group, which confirmed golfer Rickie Fowler on his very own surrounded by team-friends kissing their companions, turned into one of the week’s most famous photos of ladies. It seemed to be six instances in the week. The Sun ran the headline “No birdies, Rick?” the Telegraph chose “Victory sealed with a kiss”, and the Mail opted for “Rickie is not noted of the pairings”. The instances blanketed a numbered chart labeling each golfer and companion.