After Emma Raducanu's loss at Wimbledon yesterday, the Observer (as yet not online) have a piece wondering why her form is uneven & she only gets so far in competitions, but fails to mention the aggressive stalkers that she has been confronting.
Many players have to deal with these problems, but its clear its had a major impact on her game.
That's not her fault, it is testament to the trouble men can cause women in their careers in any job;
victim blaming is always wrong!
@ChrisMayLA6 absolutely.
More generally, I tend to ignore sports writing and sports interviews. It is usually either egotistical dross or astonishingly banal.
I played my sport to the highest level it has. I knew I was competing against people much more gifted than I, but I worked damned hard at it, as hard as I could, and *loved* being a part of it.
So often, sports journalism has no appreciation of or understanding of that inner life, or of the fine margins in play
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