The Daily Telegraph - 23 June 2022

The Daily Telegraph Thursday 23 June 2022 *** 9

Sport
Football

Chelsea look for sporting director

Boehly takes on acting role regarding transfers and contracts has already been linked with the Romelu Lukaku to return to Inter board. The club said: “Chelsea FC
as Granovskaia leaves post until a full-time sporting director is sporting director role, while the Milan. and Ms Granovskaia have agreed
appointed. club are likely to discover the plans that she will remain available to
Chairman to work closely with of Michael Edwards, who has left his Raheem Sterling is near the top of [Todd] Boehly and the club for the
Tuchel in transfer window Boehly’s decision to name him- position at Liverpool. Chelsea’s for- a list of attacking targets who also duration of the current transfer
self acting sporting director has mer director of football Michael include Barcelona’s Ousmane Dem- window, to the extent required to
By Matt Law shocked some of Chelsea’s Premier bele and Everton’s Richarlison. support the transition.”
FOOTBALL NEWS CORRESPONDENT League rivals. Hands on: Todd Boehly’s Arsenal target Gabriel Jesus has also
decision to name himself been offered to the club. Boehly added: “We thank Marina
Chelsea will begin the search for a Chelsea confirmed Granovskaia acting sporting director for her many years of excellent ser-
new sporting director after confirm- would remain “available” to Boehly has shocked some of Boehly and Tuchel must also vice to the club and wish her all the
ing that Marina Granovskaia has left and the club for the remainder of Chelsea’s rivals make urgent moves for defenders, best in her future ventures.
her post as part of changes to the the summer window, but she no with Jules Kounde and Matthijs de
club’s board. longer has a position at Stamford Emenalo is out of work after turning Ligt on an eight-man shortlist, and “As custodians of Chelsea FC, we
Bridge and will not play an active down a role at Newcastle United. decide on the future of captain now begin executing our long-term
As first reported by Telegraph part in transfer business. Cesar Azpilicueta, who could be vision and plan for the club, creating
Sport on Monday, Granovskaia has Boehly and Tuchel’s first task will replaced by Lens right-back Jona- an outstanding experience for its
followed Bruce Buck out of Chelsea, Boehly and head coach Thomas be to start on this summer’s incom- than Clauss. passionate, loyal fans and continu-
with co-owner Todd Boehly taking Tuchel will lead this summer’s busi- ing transfer business after finalising ing to challenge for top honours in
over the chairmanship and assum- ness while the club find a new sport- a £7 million, 12-month loan deal for The Chelsea statement announc- line with Chelsea FC’s decorated
ing Granovskaia’s responsibilities ing director, and questions remain ing Boehly as chairman and interim history. Working together, side-by-
over the future of technical and per- sporting director also revealed that side, we are firmly committed to
formance adviser Petr Cech. British entrepreneur Jonathan winning, both on and off the pitch.”
Goldstein had taken a seat on the
Atletico Madrid’s Andrea Berta

England Under-19s put
best foot forward
Aston Villa midfielder
Carney Chukwuemeka
celebrates scoring England
Under-19s’ third goal
against Serbia in the
European Championships
by tightening the bootlace
of Tottenham Hotspur
striker Dane Scarlett, who
had found the net twice in
the first half. England went
on to win the clash in
Slovakia 4-0, with Sheffield
United forward Daniel
Jebbison completing the
scoring. They now top
Group B and will play Israel
next on Saturday

Ashley bids £50m for Derby to rival Appleby In brief signing of 24-year-old He is out of contract
Union Berlin striker after leaving Real
By John Percy preparation to complete a takeover complete his own deal, after submit- Forest eye Williams Taiwo Awoniyi. Madrid.
of the stricken League One club. ting a “highly competitive” bid last Nottingham Forest are
Mike Ashley has ramped up his bid week. Chairman at the club between in talks with Liverpool D-day near for Bale Hunt on for Ebiowei
to buy Derby County after deposit- The deal is understood to include 2008 and 2015, the American’s over a possible deal for Gareth Bale is set to Crystal Palace are
ing £50 million to acquire the club the club and its assets, plus the sta- group, General Sports Worldwide, Wales defender Neco make a decision on his hopeful of beating
and Pride Park Stadium. dium, which is still owned by for- has been in dialogue with Quan- Williams. Fulham are future in the next 48 Manchester United in
mer chairman Mel Morris. tuma and remains hopeful of agree- also in the chase to hours. Bale, 32, is the race to sign
Ashley’s group is set to inform ing a deal. sign the 21-year-old, close to agreeing a 18-year-old Derby
Derby’s administrators, Quantuma, Ashley’s proposal will not include who spent the second deal to play on next County winger
that it is ready to proceed with a deal any charges for the rent of Pride Appleby told American media half of last season on season and was Malcolm Ebiowei.
to rival that of former chairman Park, or take any money out of the that his bid was “down to the final loan at Craven Cottage. spotted at Cardiff He has represented
Andrew Appleby and save the club club, including charges of interest, strokes”. Liverpool will demand City’s training ground both England and
from liquidation. for the next ten years. Ashley is said a fee of £15 million and yesterday, but there Netherlands at youth
to be “incredibly serious” yet fears Short-term funding from a local are reluctant to are no guarantees he level, and made 16
Telegraph Sport has seen corre- time is running out to secure an businessman is understood to be sanction a loan move. will join the first-team appearances
spondence showing that lawyers for agreement with Quantuma and close but Ashley and Appleby are Forest are also due to Championship club. last season.
Ashley are holding £50 million in “just wants a deal to be done”. now raising the stakes in their take- complete the club
over bids. record £17.5 million
Appleby is also determined to

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Football

Kirby’s England person individually. Kirby said: “It’s
hopes salvaged more relief for me. [The squad con-
by oxygen tent firmation] was one of those when
you’re sitting there waiting for your
Treatment helped forward to will be, will be, if I’m ready I’m ACTION IMAGES phone to light up to say, ‘Go to the
overcome ‘extreme fatigue’ ready.’ It wasn’t like you could have room’, a bit like X Factor. I walked in
a brain scan to show you’re dealing Relief: Fran Kirby trains at St George’s Park ahead of the friendly against the Netherlands and I saw her smiling. She told me
Wiegman believes Chelsea with a certain thing. that she all along knew that I was
star can have big Euros role going to be an important part of this
“There were no specific answers, team.
By Tom Garry it was extreme fatigue and extreme
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL REPORTER exhaustion. But I feel really privi- “We had some really honest con-
leged that I had the club, Chelsea, versations leading into it. I [had pre-
When she was showered with and England all coming together, viously] said to her, ‘I need you to be
awards in a glittering, all-conquer- brainstorming. honest with me and I’ll be honest
ing 2021, it was unthinkable that with you, if we both feel like I’m not
England’s leading light, Fran Kirby, “Going in the oxygen tent always ready, then we make that decision’. I
could miss the Euros. But when a looked a bit scary but it was quite gave everything I could in those two
worrying illness struck in February, cool. I was seeing a different special- weeks.
it appeared a serious prospect. ist every day to pinpoint what
exactly was going on. I went to Bar- “There’s been constant commu-
Now the Chelsea forward has spo- celona to meet some of the best doc- nication there and Sarina’s really
ken of her relief at making the squad tors in sport. taken it on board, and she’s really
for next month’s home tournament, managed the load, not just of me but
after using an oxygen tent in her “I had some amazing people everyone. Previously in England
house to help her recover. reach out to me from other sports camp we’ve all felt that we’ve had to
who have gone through very similar do exactly the same thing all the
Kirby did not play for nearly four things – a marathon runner, another time, but everyone’s body is differ-
months after suffering from symp- footballer, a rower, giving me loads ent.”
toms of “extreme fatigue and of ideas. That helped me so much to
exhaustion” and had to sit out April’s understand, this isn’t just a normal This year’s illness was not the first
England internationals as well as the type of fatigue, it’s fatigue that loads for Kirby in recent years. She suf-
finale to Chelsea’s double-winning of competitors get.” fered from a viral infection that
season. But she says getting herself caused pericarditis – an inflamma-
healthy was on her mind rather than Kirby improved to be fit enough tion of the fluid-filled sac around the
stressing about whether or not she to make the bench, albeit as an heart – in the 2019-20 campaign
would make England’s Euros squad. unused substitute, for Chelsea’s FA which left her “bedridden”.
Cup final victory in May, and then
Speaking at length about her ill- joined England’s camp at the end of On the lack of a precise formal
ness for the first time, the 28-year- the month. She made her long- diagnosis, Kirby said: “That is a con-
old said: “I didn’t even think about awaited return to competitive cern, but for me I am learning each
being in a Euros squad in February- action as a substitute in England’s time, I’ve kind of learnt now what
April time. It wasn’t really in my friendly against Belgium last Thurs- the triggers are and when I start to
mind. We didn’t really know how day, coming on with just under half feel a certain way and how I can pre-
long it was going to take [to return], an hour to go and helping the Lion- vent that from happening.”
two weeks or four months. I had esses to win 3-0.
conversations with [Chelsea man- Asked if she had ever feared she
ager] Emma Hayes and said, ‘What By that point, head coach Sarina would not make it to England’s July
Wiegman had already confirmed 6 Euros opener against Austria,
the former Reading player was in Kirby said: “I never really had in the
her final 23, telling each player in back of my mind, ‘Oh my god, I’m
not going to get selected for the
Euros now’, because I just wasn’t
focusing my energy on that.

“There was definitely relief to get
selected, but I [wasn’t] thinking
about it every day, because it’s not in
your control.”

Kirby is in line for more minutes
in an England shirt when the Lion-
esses host European champions the
Netherlands in a warm-up game at
Elland Road tomorrow night.

Interview ‘We had to play in boots so small it hurt’

Lucy Bronze has developed the team hotel at England’s training Hemp, her former team-mate at England now. That’s the sort of and has no bitterness towards those
into one of England’s stars but base at St George’s Park. “We stay in Manchester City and England, talks thing people were doing. Play foot- who benefited from the launch of
started in the women’s game fancy hotels, everything is provided about players who tell them to stop ball, work in a takeaway. You just the professional Women’s Super
in much more primitive times for us. You get boot deals, boots sent complaining about little things, it is made it work, you did what you League in 2018, when she was play-
to you with your name on. You get Bronze’s name that comes up. needed to get enough money to live ing at Lyon. But she has no regrets.
By Luke Edwards trainers to wear, every single piece and play football.
NORTHERN FOOTBALL WRITER of kit, all with your name on. That is partly because she is “It’s funny when you tell the
one of the senior leadership “We did it for the love of the younger players, ‘I did all the top-
Lucy Bronze is one of the best and “I remember my first tournament group and a player the new game. There was no talk about pings, cut the pizzas, I can tell you
most recognisable female football- in 2013, it was the first time Nike generation of England contracts, social media, what all the types… we try not to say to
ers on the planet and has just signed sent boots to the players who were stars such as Hemp grew them, ‘Back in my day’, but we do
for Barcelona, where she will link sponsored. You didn’t get to pick up admiring. But it is also you look like in a video. I play make a joke of it,” she says. “It’s not
up with one of the finest club sides your style, you were asked what because Bronze has with players now who get their their fault that the game has
in order to try to win her fourth your size was and you were sent a straddled the amateur contracts at 18. They have an changed and they have a different
Champions League trophy. boot. It was any boot they had in and professional era – the apartment they rent close to the experience.”
that size basically. good and the bad. club they play for and they train
Yet, at the start of her career, What’s next for the Lionesses
Bronze was working in a pizza shop, “We all ended up getting the “I was living the uni every day. It’s brilliant for them
playing part-time for Everton and same one and it came up a little bit life, trying to make and sometimes you think, England v Netherlands
was once told to stop complaining too small. We all needed half a size a bit of money and wouldn’t that have been
when she told coaching staff the up so we asked if we could swap support myself in great for me. Friendly: Tomorrow, 8pm, ITV
boots she had been given with Eng- them for slightly bigger ones. my football “But no, I wouldn’t
land were too small and were crush- career,” she says. have changed the Switzerland v England
ing her toes. “The answer that came back from “Imagine if I had path I took. It was
the coaches was, ‘Don’t be so to go and work in amazing, the mem- Friendly: June 30, 5pm, ITV
“When we’re on international ungrateful’. We played the entire a pizza shop after ories I have, they
duty now, we have everything, all tournament in boots that were too training with are so unique. The England v Austria
the support, all the facilities,” small for us.”
Bronze tells Telegraph Sport from Divide: Lucy Bronze experiences that I Euro 2022: July 6, 8pm, BBC
Bronze laughs a lot during this have got, they are
anecdote. It is one she has shared has seen the switch priceless.” England v Norway
privately with team-mates and it is
telling that when the likes of Lauren to professionalism Bronze tries not Euro 2022: July 11, 8pm, BBC
to romanticise the past
N. Ireland v England

Euro 2022: July 15, 8pm, BBC

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Asher-Smith and KJT head the 100m individual bronze she won Daryll Neita, who reached the selected. It’s my third Common-
Commonwealth challenge four years ago, having also claimed Olympic 100m final, will compete in wealth Games selection and I think
gold in the relay. the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. this one means the most, especially
Athletics at the Commonwealth Games in Bir- as it’s a home championship.
mingham which start next month. Both women expected to be Sprinters Nethaneel Mitchell-
By Nick Mashiter included and Team England have Blake and Reece Prescod (100m) are “It will mean a lot to be able to
Heptathlon champion Johnson- now confirmed their athletics joined by Adam Gemili and Zharnel compete at home in front of friends
Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Thompson will attempt to defend squad for the Games, which start Hughes, who will both run in the and family and represent England
Johnson-Thompson will lead Team the crown she won at Gold Coast in on July 28. 200m, with all four in the 4x100m again.
England’s athletics medal hopes 2018. World 200 metres champion relay squad.
Asher-Smith will run in the 100m Keely Hodgkinson, who won “With all the training and the
and 4x100m, aiming to improve on 800m silver at last year’s Olympics, European 400m champion experiences that I’ve gone through I
is also included along with Holly Matthew Hudson-Smith will also feel like I am a lot more prepared
Bradshaw, who won Team GB’s first race at his home track of the Alexan- than I’ve ever been. It’s going to be
ever Olympic pole vault medal der Stadium. fun, exciting, scary, but I’m looking
when she took bronze in Tokyo. forward to it.”
He said: “It’s a great honour to be

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0-Houston Astros 8 New York Mets 2-Milwaukee Lancashire 10 7 4 00 14 0.72 2.55 (7f173yds h’cap): Invincibly (C Lee 17-2) 1; 55.22s; 2 C Foster (US) 1:55.71; 3 D Seto (Japan)
Brewers 2 St. Louis Cardinals 6-Chicago White Sox 7 4 00 14 0.49 Tommy G (20-1) 2; Makeen (7-2F) 3. 14 ran. 1¼, nk. 5-2F. 10 ran. ns, 3½. (S bin Suroor). NR: Farasi Lane. 1:56.22; 5 T Dean (GB) 1:56.77. Women, 200m WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL
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Diego Padres 3 Arizona Diamondbacks 2 (11 Derbyshire 11 5 4 10 11 0.93 3.25 (1m3f39yds h’cap): Commonsensical (B Curtis Flickinger (US) 2:06.08; 3 Y Zhang (China) Cricket
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Leicestershire 12 3.55 (6f195yds): Oscula (B Curtis 15-8F) 1; Honey (France) 27.40; 7 M Harris (GB) 27.72. 4 x 200m T20 BLAST.-North Group: Blackpool: Lancashire
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Cricket Yorkshire 10 4.50 (1m6f44yds h’cap): Dancing Harry (James v Derbyshire (6.30); New Road: Worcestershire v
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Nottinghamshire 10 4.30 (6f195yds h’cap): Gometra Ginty (C Rodriguez Superjack (10-3) 3. Praiano 2-1F. 6 ran. shd, ½. (R v Essex (6.15); Taunton: Somerset v Hampshire
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C A Lynn c Hain b Lintott 59 5.00 (1m5f11yds h’cap): Caramelised (D Probert 5.20 (7f h’cap): Global Tycoon (G Bass 12-1) 1; Lord Fritz (US) bt T M Monteiro (Brazil) 7-5 6-3; A De
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*J J Cobb not out 13 5.50 (7f h’cap): Smiling Sunflower (P Cosgrave 4-1) (Switzerland) 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-3. 3rd rd: B H Maia Yankees v Houston Astros - BT Sport 1 12mid-
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†L D McManus c Stone b Miles 10 6.00 (5f160yds h’cap): Regal Envoy (L Keniry evs F) 6.20 (7f nov): Munch (B Sayette 12-1) 1; Bonnsie Quartz Du Rheu (13-2) 3. Via Dolorosa 3-1F. 6 ran. Kalinina (Ukraine) bt Y Putintseva (Kazakhstan) CYCLING: French Road Championships, women’s
1; Ruby Cottage (7-4) 2; Adaay In Asia (4-1) 3. 4 (100-1) 2; Betweenthesticks (5-1) 3. Hadley Park 6-3 2-6 6-3; C Giorgi (Italy) bt G Muguruza (Spain) time-trial - Eurosport 1 12pm, men’s time-trial -
T A I Taylor not out 1 ½, 42l. (N Twiston-Davies). 7-5 6-3; V Tomova (Bulgaria) bt K Flipkens Eurosport 1 2.30.
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11-8F) 1; Murphy’s Dream (10-3) 2; Eton College Western Writer (11-10F) 2; Royal Aviation (7-2) 3. (GB) 6-4 6-2. Women: L Sun (Switzerland) bt S RUGBY LGE: Super League, St Helens v Leeds -
5-200, 6-210. 3¾, 4¼. (D Pipe). NR: Paudie. Sky Sports Arena 7.30, Sky Sports Main Event
(8-1) 3. 7 ran. ½, 1½. (R Beckett). 11 ran. ¾, ¾. (L Dace). 3.35 (2m mdn hdle): Alioski (R McLernon 5-1) 1; Beth Grey (GB) 6-3 6-2. 8pm.
Did Not Bat: G G White, B W Sanderson, F J 7.30 (1m3f137yds nov): Three Priests (R Dawson 7.50 (1m2f219yds h’cap): Pride Of Priory (T Chess Player (8-15F) 2; Montaqem (22-1) 3. 9 ran. TENNIS: Rothesay International Eastbourne -
1-2F) 1; Ice House (11-4) 2; Alpha King (9-1) 3. 5 Marquand 5-2) 1; Nao Da Mais (20-1) 2; Scampi ATP T’MENT (Mallorca).-2nd rd: D Medvedev BBC Two 1pm.
Heldreich. nk, 2½. (G Brown). NR: Prince Ali. (Russia) bt A Karatsev (Russia) 4-6 6-3 6-2; R B
ran. 5l, 2¼. (R Varian). NR: Annual Review. (11-2) 3. Najeeba 2-1F. 7 ran. ¾, 3½. (W Haggas). 4.05 (2m4f h’cap hdle): Gaelik Coast (B Hughes Agut (Spain) bt N Kyrgios (Australia) w/o; A
Bowling: D R Briggs 4-0-39-0, O P Stone 4-0-33- 8.00 (1m2f37yds h’cap): Plansina (D Probert 5-2F) 8.20 (1m7f218yds h’cap): Vin Rouge (G Downing 13-2) 1; Faint Hope (11-2) 2; Tulin (15-2) 3. Coal Bellier (Switzerland) bt P Carreno-Busta (Spain)
1; City Escape (10-3) 2; Cafe Sydney (9-1) 3. 12 5-2JF) 1; Maridadi (5-2JF) 2; Liva (12-1) 3. 7 ran. 6-3 6-4; T Griekspoor (Netherlands) bt A Molcan
1, C N Miles 4-0-53-2, C R Brathwaite 4-0-43-1, J Stock 5-4F. 6 ran. ½, 13l. (D McCain). (Slovakia) 0-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3); D Altmaier
ran. nk, 2½. (A Wintle). NRs: Defilade, Lethal Touch. 1½, 2½. (Seamus Mullins). 4.35 (2m4f h’cap hdle): Appreciate (B Harris 6-4F) (Germany) bt S Baez (Argentina) 6-2 2-6 6-4; B
B Lintott 4-0-39-2. Placepot: £40.10. Quadpot: £6.60. Placepot: £1,116.30. Quadpot: £70.60. 1; Iron Heart (9-1) 2; Holerday Ridge (13-2) 3. 7 Bonzi (France) bt D Shapovalov (Canada) 6-4 6-1;
M Giron (US) bt M McDonald (US) 4-6 7-6 (7-5)
Warwickshire Salisbury ran. 2¼, 13l. (M Harris). 6-4; S Tsitsipas (Greece) bt I Ivashka (Belarus)
Placepot: £6.90. Quadpot: £2.70.
P R Stirling c McManus b Sanderson 17 Going: Good to firm 6-4 6-4.

R M Yates b Sanderson 6 1.45 (6f213yds mdn): Bajan Bandit (C Fallon 7-2) 1;
Belon (9-2) 2; Loyal Touch (11-5F) 3. 10 ran. ½, hd.
S R Hain lbw b Taylor 18 (R Hannon). NR: Island Star.

A J Hose not out 63

†A L Davies b Heldreich 42 Carlisle

C G Benjamin not out 58 Going: Good to firm-good in places

Extras (b1 lb3 w1 nb4) 9 1.20 (5f mdn): Washington Heights (K Stott 4-1)
1; Armour Propre (3-1F) 2; Secret Guest (12-1) 3.
Total (for 4, 18.5 overs) 213 13 ran. hd, nk. (K Ryan).

Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-44, 3-44, 4-113.

Racecards

Newmarket 3.10 Price Bailey Fillies’ Novice Stakes(4)7f£5,400 Newcastle Jackpot Card 2.10 Pertemps Education Network Handicap(6)1m£2,970 3.55 Pertemps Riverside Restricted Novice Stks(5)2YO7f£3,672

Marlborough 1 1 Sea Tsarina (15) (D) W Haggas 3 9 9 T Marquand 4 1 253 Distinction [P](28) J Mackie 4 10 0 K Stott 12 1 1 Lion Of War (12) (D) C & M Johnston 9 11 C Fallon 5

1.25 - Metahorse 2 55 Asraabb (35) (BF) R Varian 3 9 2 J Mitchell 1 Marlborough 2 390 Aoife’s Joy [T](30) (D) M Walford 5 9 13 J Garritty 9 2 Henzar R Fell 9 4 J Peate (5) 4
2.00 - World Without Love
2.35 - Leap Abroad 3 Midnight Moll E Walker 3 9 2 K Shoemark 3 1.00 - Lizzie Jean 3 976 Biplane [P](16) (C) J Wainwright 4 9 13 P Hanagan 8 3 Maximilian Caesar M Botti 9 4 P J McDonald 6
3.10 - Sea Tsarina 1.35 - Revision
3.45 - Deodar 4 6- Next Chapter [H](247) J Tate 3 9 2 Rossa Ryan 2 2.10 - Distinction 3.20 - Lovely Mana 4 361 Rocket Rod (30) (CD) G Harker 5 9 12 J Peate (5) 3 4 3 Post Office Road (10) R Fell 9 4 B Curtis 1
4.20 - Roxzoff 2.45 - Shining Blue 3.55 - Lion Of War
4.55 - Didtheyleaveuoutto 5 76- Risk Averse (299) H Palmer 3 9 2 Harry Davies (5) 5 4.30 - Tickets 5 555 Odd Socks Havana [P,T](3) (CD) R Menzies 4 9 11 5 445 Sprezzatura (21) I Jardine 9 4 J Hart 2
P J McDonald 10
S.P. f’cast: 5-4 Sea Tsarina, 9-4 Asraabb, 5-1 Midnight Moll, 8-1 6 Tuther One Adrian Nicholls 9 4 B McHugh 3
Next Chapter, 12-1 Risk Averse.
6 999 Thaayer [WS](97) (CD)(C) M Herrington 7 9 11 T Eaves 11 S.P. f’cast: 11-10 Lion Of War, 5-2 Post Office Road, 7-1 Others.

3.45 Featurespace Fraud Fighting Handicap(2)7f£13,500 Going: Standard to slow TV: Sky Sports Racing 7 5-0 Lantana Dancer (30) J Norton 4 9 8 S James 1 4.30 Pertemps Network Handicap(5)3YO7f£3,510
Draw: High numbers have a slight advantage over 5f.
Going: Good-good to firm in places TV: Racing TV [B] Blinkers [V] Visor [E] Eyeshield [T] Tongue Strap [P] Cheekpieces 8 332 Fergie Time (8) (D) (BF) K Dalgleish 3 9 4 C Rodriguez 7 1 -21 Tickets (36) (D) I Furtado 9 9 P J McDonald 4
Draw: No significant advantage.
1 858 Pensiero D’Amore [H](26) (D) M Botti 6 10 2 9 836 Hoi An Beach [V](29) R Menzies 3 9 2 S De Sousa 2 2 -00 Sezaam [B](33) M Dods 9 9 T Eaves 1
S Cherchi (3) 2
1.25 Restricted Novice Stakes(4)2YO6f£5,400 10-78 Pacopash (9) R Menzies 4 9 0 Paula Muir (3) 13 3 -18 Dynamic Talent [T](53) (D) Darryll Holland 9 8 L Wright (7) 5
2 -09 Azano [T](12) (D) D O’Meara 6 10 0 T Marquand 6 1.00 JenningsBet Handicap(4)3YO1m4f£4,995
1 3 Metahorse (12) M Bell 9 7 Rossa Ryan 6 11485 Audit (7) R Carr 3 8 13 JP Sullivan 6 4 194 Show Maker [P,T](35) (C) I Mohammed 9 8 C Rodriguez 10
3 6-3 Cliffs Of Capri [B](50) (D) J Osborne 8 9 6 D Costello 3 1 149 State Legend (33) (D) J Ferguson 9 9 D Muscutt 5
2 Rogue Lightning Tom Clover 9 7 J Mitchell 4 12306 Mister Falsetto [P](16) J Camacho 3 8 8 DOUBTFUL 5 5 -59 Sweet Mist (28) (CD) B Smart 9 7 P Hanagan 6
4 2-1 Deodar (40) R Beckett 3 9 2 R Hornby 1 2 215 Outsmart (19) (C) O Pears 9 5 B Robinson 2
3 4 Tabsheer (20) Patrick Owens 9 7 T Marquand 1 13378 Perseption (26) B Ellison 3 8 4 C Hardie 4 6 14- Vince Lombardi (267) G Tuer 9 7 S James 13
3 371 Lizzie Jean [H](15) I Furtado 9 5 S De Sousa 3
4 Pembrokeshire W Jarvis 9 5 K Shoemark 3 5 582 Lord Rapscallion (20) (D) S C Williams 6 9 2 M Ghiani 4 S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Fergie Time, 7-2 Rocket Rod, 6-1 Distinction, 15-2 7 293 Canny Fettle [P](44) (C) R Varian 9 7 David Egan 7
Odd Socks Havana, 10-1 Hoi An Beach, 12-1 Others.
5 Gareeb C & M Johnston 9 2 J Fanning 5 6 -61 Dream Show (23) (D) C Hills 3 8 7 Harry Davies (5) 5 4 252 Thundering (11) K Ryan 9 5 K Stott 8 8 955 Bond Boy [V](22) M Appleby 9 4 D Muscutt 12

6 Vetiver [H]A Balding 9 2 R Hornby 2 S.P. f’cast: 10-11 Deodar, 3-1 Dream Show, 13-2 Lord Rapscallion, 5 274 Nikhi (26) J O’Keeffe 9 5 J Garritty 4 2.45 JenningsBet Seaton Delaval Handicap(2)1m£18,039 9 3-6 Macchiavello [H](22) K R Burke 9 4 D Tudhope 11
15-2 Cliffs Of Capri, 20-1 Pensiero D’Amore, Azano.
6 463 Liquid Metric (20) James Horton 9 2 P J McDonald 1 10111 Ey Up Its The Boss [P](6) (D) T Coyle 9 4(6ex)
K Schofield (5) 8
S.P. f’cast: 6-4 Metahorse, 3-1 Vetiver, 7-2 Gareeb, 7-1 4.20 Cheffins Handicap(4)1m£6,696 7 762 Pons Aelius (8) (D) C & M Johnston 9 1 F Norton 7 1 109 La Tihaty (69) (D) R Varian 4 9 9 David Egan 3
Pembrokeshire, 10-1 Rogue Lightning, 25-1 Tabsheer. 1159- Round Acre [B](251) E Bethell 9 1 K Stott 2
8 664 The Churchill Lad [H](14) R Menzies 8 6 C Hardie 6 2 -40 Irish Admiral (68) (D) W Haggas 5 9 3 C Fallon 2
1 0-6 Lalania (16) (C)(D) W Stone 7 10 4 Georgia Dobie (3) 3 12235 Ba Na Hills [P](38) (CD) J J Quinn 9 0 J Hart 3
2.00 Huttie’s Handicap(5)1m4f£3,996 S.P. f’cast: 4-1 Lizzie Jean, 5-1 Liquid Metric, Thundering, 11-2 3 11 Shining Blue (28) (D) S bin Suroor 4 9 0 D Tudhope 5
2 -41 Enforced (23) (D) R Varian 3 9 6 J Mitchell 7 Pons Aelius, 13-2 State Legend, Outsmart, 7-1 Nikhi, 10-1 The 13559 Cloch Nua (15) Mrs Stella Barclay 8 9 D Fentiman 9
1 767 Shirbo (28) H Spiller 4 10 2 T Hammer Hansen 4 4 803 Baldomero (32) M Appleby 4 8 9 S De Sousa 1
3 112 Roxzoff (11) (D) C Hills 3 9 4 K Shoemark 5 Churchill Lad. S.P. f’cast: 11-4 Ey Up Its The Boss, 4-1 Tickets, 7-1 Canny Fettle,
5 590 Hartswood (20) (CD)(D) R Fahey 5 8 7 C Hardie 6 8-1 Ba Na Hills, 10-1 Dynamic Talent, Macchiavello, 12-1 Others.
2 423 World Without Love (11) C & M Johnston 3 9 1 4 -52 Recurrent Dream (27) (BF) Alice Haynes 3 9 4
J Fanning 5 T Hammer Hansen 1 1.35 Pertemps Network Novice Stakes(4)2YO6f£5,346 6 -06 Bowland Park (20) (D) D & C Kubler 4 8 5 JP Sullivan 4

3 -75 Ward Castle [P](20) M Botti 3 8 13 M Ghiani 1 5 648 Nuvolari (20) E J-Houghton 3 9 3 C Bishop 2 1 871 Conquest Of Power (13) M Usher 9 10 O Lewis (7) 11 S.P. f’cast: 10-11 Shining Blue, 6-1 Irish Admiral, 13-2 La Tihaty, Hamilton
7-1 Hartswood, 8-1 Baldomero, 10-1 Bowland Park.
4 232 Eight Of Diamonds [P](10) (D) S P C Woods 3 8 10 6 439 Uzincso (36) (D) J Butler 6 9 3 J Crowley 4 2 46 Corporate Raider (26) R Cowell 9 4 D Tudhope 10 6.00 - The Resdev Way
Harry Davies (5) 2 6.30 - Sparkling Red
7 1-8 Tartan Chief [B](13) (D) P & O Cole 3 9 1 M Tabti (7) 6 3 8 Dickieburd (15) Craig Lidster 9 4 S James 4 3.20 Bet With JenningsBet Handicap(4)3YO5f£4,995 7.00 - Hot Scoop 8.00 - Amanzoe
7.30 - King Of Ice 8.30 - Boogie Time
5 471 Vaynor (20) C Hills 3 8 9 T Marquand 6 S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Enforced, 3-1 Nuvolari, 7-2 Roxzoff, 6-1 Recurrent 4 8 Frank Ross Is Out (12) R Fahey 9 4 T Hamilton 6 1 223 Lovely Mana [P](9) (CD)(D) G Boughey 9 9 D Muscutt 7 9.00 - Elladora
Dream, 7-1 Tartan Chief, 12-1 Uzincso, 25-1 Lalania.
6 142 Jalea Moon (21) J Chapple-Hyam 3 8 8 R Tart 3 5 4 Hernan Cortes (24) K Ryan 9 4 T Eaves 5 2 401 Kape Moss (33) (C)(D) D Loughnane 9 7 David Egan 3

S.P. f’cast: 5-2 Eight Of Diamonds, 10-3 Vaynor, 7-2 World Without 6 Megatron E Bethell 9 4 P J McDonald 2 3 412 Silky Wilkie (5) (D) K R Burke 9 6 S Feilden (7) 4
Love, 9-2 Jalea Moon, 11-2 Ward Castle, 20-1 Shirbo.
4.55 Hybrid Software Group Handicap(5)2m£5,616 7 2 Revision (15) K Ryan 9 4 K Stott 7 4 128 Angle Land (17) (D) (BF) R Cowell 9 4 K Stott 5 Leicester

2.35 Cambridge Precision Innovation Hcap(4)3YO6f£6,696 1 -35 Mr Chua [P,T](17) (D) M Scudamore 6 9 9 J Crowley 3 8 Shine’s Ambition R Fell 9 4 J Hart 9 5 -15 Iur Cinn Tra (22) (D) D O’Meara 9 2 D Tudhope 2 5.15 - Naval Power
5.45 - Tribuna Uffizi
1 221 Leap Abroad [T](57) (D) P & O Cole 9 10 M Tabti (7) 6 2 654 Sophar Sogood (22) (D) J Butler 5 9 4 K Shoemark 6 9 Arbour Lane R Fahey 8 13 Oisin Orr 8 6 505 Hot Diggity Dog [V](8) (C) K Dalgleish 8 11 F Norton 6 6.15 - I Am The Sea (nap) 7.15 - Devon Envoy
6.45 - Nikki’s Girl 7.45 - Days Like This
3 -33 Didtheyleaveuoutto (40) N Gifford 9 9 1 D Costello 2 10 Miss Raindrop T Waggott 8 13 D Swift 1 7 005 Mega Marvel (23) (C) M Appleby 8 5 S De Sousa 1 8.15 - Punda Maria

2 414 Lethal Levi (12) (D) K R Burke 9 8 C Lee 2 4 449 Ghadbbaan (18) M Walford 6 9 0 T Marquand 1 11 08 Tollerton Forest (14) Craig Lidster 8 13 J Peate (5) 3 S.P. f’cast: 10-3 Silky Wilkie, 7-2 Kape Moss, 9-2 Lovely Mana, 11-2
Angle Land, 6-1 Iur Cinn Tra, 7-1 Mega Marvel, 10-1 Hot Diggity Dog.
3 1-3 Neptunian [WS](64) (D) M Meade 9 7 T Marquand 5 5 517 Dereham (54) J Berry 6 8 7 Harry Davies (5) 7 S.P. f’cast: 7-4 Revision, 5-1 Megatron, 11-2 Hernan Cortes, 6-1
Arbour Lane, 8-1 Corporate Raider, Conquest Of Power, 16-1 Shine’s
4 604 Chrysos (19) K Ryan 9 5 J Crowley 1 6 -43 Calvinist (16) K Frost 9 8 6 M Ghiani 5 Ambition, Frank Ross Is Out, 50-1 Others. Nottingham

5 142 Bear Profit (24) (BF) S C Williams 9 5 M Ghiani 4 7 -73 Far Too Beautiful [P](35) M Attwater 4 8 5 J Haynes 4 For all today’s racecards go to 1.10 - Tuddenham Mill (nb)
Telegraph.co.uk/racecards or 1.45 - Aphelios
6 213 Devaste (12) (D) T Kent 9 4 Harry Davies (5) 3 S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Didtheyleaveuoutto, 10-3 Ghadbbaan, 5-1 Mr Chua, Whistler’s Nap The Telegraph app 2.20 - Wonderful Times 3.30 - Adjudicator
11-2 Sophar Sogood, 6-1 Calvinist, 8-1 Far Too Beautiful, 10-1 2.55 - Counsel 4.05 - Stone Circle
S.P. f’cast: 3-1 Lethal Levi, 10-3 Devaste, 4-1 Neptunian, 9-2 Bear Dereham. The Toff (1.10 Nottingham) is today’s nap for Whistler (Marcus 4.40 - Diamond Cutter
Profit, 11-2 Leap Abroad, 8-1 Chrysos. Armytage) of Telegraph Sport.

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Sport
Rugby Union

Interview

‘I never got over being hooked

by Jones. It left me in a dark pit’

Taken off after just 28 minutes GETTY IMAGES The great ently I was. As I sat on the bench, I
against Australia six years ago, unattached could have cried. I was heartbroken.
Luther Burrell says the end of Saracens’ Last hurrah: Luther Burrell plays his final the guys at Northampton were fan- My heart was in my stomach
his England career scarred him Davies cited tastic. But not one single person Five more players because I knew how it was going to
game for Newcastle this month (above); his from the RFU [Rugby Football out of contract: be portrayed. I had no real idea why
By Charlie Morgan Aled Davies, the Union] or England reached out to at that point. And it set me off again,
SENIOR RUGBY WRITER Saracens early substitution against Australia (right) me to see how I was. I dropped off Nick Auterac mentally. It was like ‘Wow, the
scrum-half, has the face of the Earth because I was Previously of whole of rugby has seen this’. I
The 2016 whitewash of Australia been cited for underpaid to go out on the weekend in a really, really bad place. Saracens, Bath couldn’t remember whether I’d
remains a seminal moment in Eddie making a and get my bloomin’ head kicked in. and Harlequins, missed a tackle or not.”
Jones’s tenure as England head dangerous tackle You have younger players paid next “I managed to get myself back Auterac, 29,
coach. But, while Danny Care and on Julian Montoya to nothing. I’ve been there and I into decent form and back into the a muscular History is written by the victors
the Vunipola brothers, Mako and during the don’t need to go back.” England set-up and had a good game loosehead prop, and collateral damage can be over-
Billy, have been recalled for another Gallagher against Wales before the tour of moved to looked. England won 39-28, setting
crack at them this summer, two Premiership final The sense of self-worth is heart- Australia. Bang, Eddie [Jones] asks Northampton the tone for a fine series triumph,
more veterans of that tour find against Leicester ening when one reflects on the past. me to jump on the plane. The whole Saints from and Jones gave a speech in the Sun-
themselves in decidedly different Tigers. Davies was Back in 2016, with Australia leading media thing is, ‘Can you believe, Harlequins in corp Stadium changing rooms that
positions. shown a yellow England 10-6 in Brisbane, signifi- post-World Cup, he’s back?’ Still, no 2020. inadvertently worsened matters.
card but his citing cant psychological trauma was trig- one’s asking if I’m OK.”
Luther Burrell admits that he has indicates the gered. “Can I be honest?” he asks. Mike Brown “He said, ‘Make sure you get
not been the same since his humili- incident is being “That had a long-lasting effect on Jones started Burrell with Owen England’s around Luther’,” says Burrell, who
ation Down Under six years ago, viewed by the me like people will never, ever Farrell at fly-half but England began most-capped was told that his prompt removal
when George Ford replaced him 28 RFU as a red-card understand.” badly. Bernard Foley sliced through full-back, now 36, was due to a poor defensive read. “I
minutes into the first Test. offence. Davies for what would have been Austral- was excellent for was like, ‘That’s even worse!’ It
has also accepted Just over nine months prior to ia’s third try before officials spotted Newcastle against drew more attention to me. I’m sure
Burrell has spent his morning on the charge. that, Burrell had missed out on an obstruction that caused it to be former club he was trying to make sure I was OK,
the local athletics track before meet- selection for the 2015 World Cup Harlequins last but I wasn’t OK.”
ing Mike Brown for an upper-body despite a strong Six Nations that disallowed. That was the cue for season.
strength session, with both men year. Sam Burgess was included. A Burrell to be hooked. When Ben Te’o emerged as a
having been let go by Newcastle Fal- “ridiculous sideshow” followed. Danny Cipriani hard-running deputy for Manu Tui-
cons and joining a swathe of players “I can remember Jonathan Joseph Following a lagi the next autumn, Burrell’s days
exiting the Premiership. “Still, to this day, people mention asking, ‘Are you going off ?’ Appar- stop-start season as an international were over.
it,” Burrell says. “Jim Mallinder and at Bath, where he
Another deal, most likely with an worked closely “It felt like, ‘Your face doesn’t fit,
overseas team, is the hope for Bur- with Orlando all the best’. I had to suck that up
rell while Brown, England’s most- Bailey, Cipriani,
capped full-back, is fiercely 34, is now and, again, pull myself out of a dark
determined to continue his career. weighing up his pit. It was hell and I don’t think I’ve
next move. been the same player since,” he says.
Understandably, Burrell
describes the situation brought on Christian Burrell hired a life coach, Tim
by tightening budgets as “brutal”. Scotland- Martin, at the end of 2015 and still
Joel Hodgson and Marco Fuser, an Williamson speaks to him most days. Having
established fly-half and an Italy Having traded joined Newcastle following a short
Worcester stint in rugby league with War-
‘With rugby in a mess, are Warriors for a rington Wolves, Burrell possesses a
clubs going to go above crack at the NFL broad perspective.
and beyond with these with Pittsburgh
players getting released?’ Steelers before Earlier this month, Kyle Sinckler
returning to posted a tweet claiming that 100
international respectively, are two rugby, the Premiership players would be with-
others to be leaving Newcastle. 28-year-old’s out a club for the 2022-23 campaign.
season at As one of those, Burrell paused for
Burrell, 32, who scored four tries Harlequins was thought.
over 15 caps between 2014 and 2016, blighted by injury.
is also wary of being undercut. He is “With rugby in the position it’s in,
proud of his CV, which features a Marcus Watson which is a mess, let’s be honest, are
Premiership and European Chal- Watson, 30, clubs going to go above and beyond
lenge Cup double in 2014 with the brother of with these players getting released?”
Northampton Saints. Anthony, has he asks. “I don’t think all of them
played for London are, because you’re all on a conveyor
He has various pursuits to fall Irish, Saracens, belt and when your time’s done it’s,
back on, not least a coaching web- Newcastle and ‘Bang, see you later. Next one in’.
site – synergywithlutherburrell. Wasps. He can be That’s how it is.”
com, so does not feel ‘‘desperate”. a devastating
runner and Whether or not another club
“I have other things going on in recently told makes him an offer, Burrell is con-
my life that excite me. I’m not going the Coventry tent with his lot, ready for the “real
to be defined as ‘Luther Burrell, Telegraph that world” and eager to pass on what
rugby player’. I’ve got a wealth of he is hopeful of professional sport has taught him –
experience and I can still do a very finding a new 2016 and all. In such a tricky time,
good job for a team, wherever that club. the sport would do well to listen.
may be,” he says.
Charlie Morgan
“But we constantly put our bodies
on the line in this job and it is sav-
age. You can see how brutal it can be
with career-ending injuries, the
long-lasting effect of concussions
and depression. I don’t want to be

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Thursday 23 June 2022

EXCLUSIVE

“I used to think
people would only
like me if I won”

Coco Gauff on the pitfalls
of teen stardom

AMERICAN EAGLE

2 *** Thursday 23 June 2022 The Daily Telegraph

Women’s Sport Monthly

Coco Gauff is not afraid to admit it. During Exclusive AMERICAN EAGLE
the summer of 2019, when she suddenly
emerged as tennis’s next superstar aged just interview
15, she briefly fell into the trap of believing
her own hype. ‘I’ve finally

Beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon, learnt just
and progressing to the fourth round – the
youngest player to do so in 29 years – Gauff to enjoy the
found herself splashed across the front
pages, overnight billed as a contender for moment’
every tournament she entered.
Coco Gauff tells Molly McElwee why a Paris stroll means
Three months later, at the US Open, she she arrives at Wimbledon in a new-found mood of calm
was thrashed by then reigning champion
Naomi Osaka in the third round. Gauff, she that little moment … I don’t know how to put
admits now, was crushed. “It wasn’t that I it into words without sounding crazy, but it
believed I could win the tournament,” says made me feel there’s more to life than tennis
Gauff, reflecting on her tears at Arthur Ashe and that took a big weight off my shoulders.
Stadium. “It’s that I expected to. The Naomi And I definitely played like that in Paris.”
match [at the US Open], now I look back at it
I’d say there was no chance that girl would With no entourage around her, she had
beat her, but in my head at the time it felt like space to think. “Usually before
I had to win. At 15, I just put so much on tournaments, especially
myself.” during Covid, I would be in
the hotel. I think I got too
Alongside the insane highs of teenage caught up in tennis, tennis,
stardom, Gauff – who is still only 18 – is tennis. I almost had main-
realistic in recounting her angst-ridden first character syndrome.”
year on tour, with a refreshing ability to Achieving this “zen”, as she
laugh at her younger self. She speaks about calls it, was key to making her
being 15 the way an older, wiser sister might first major final, as well as the
– with a mixture of protectiveness and doubles final with compatriot
lighthearted ridicule. Jessica Pegula. Though she was

When she meets up with Telegraph Sport well beaten by world No 1 Iga
in Berlin, fresh from reaching the French Swiatek, the dominant force in
Open final, fans crane their necks to catch a tennis, Gauff made as much progress
glimpse of her. The spotlight is constant, but off the court as she did on it. “People
Gauff is unfailingly polite and patient with come up to me and say they support me
every person she meets – introducing herself regardless of whether I win or lose, and it
by name and thanking them for their time. almost brings me to tears,” she says.
Walking into the players’ tent, she wears an “Because when I was younger, even 15 or 16,
easy smile, greeting fellow players and giving I would think that people would only like me
a little wave to her father and coach Corey, if I won.”
who sits out of earshot across the room on a It shows how grounded she remains – for
sofa. The intense pressure Gauff has experi- which she credits her family. Pushy parents
enced in her short career would have been in tennis, in particular fathers who coach
grounds to make any parent feel protective. their daughters, have often gained unsa-
Watch back the footage of the fresh-faced voury reputations – with high-profile
Gauff in her famous win over Williams, and examples of abuse and burnout before the
the words “prodigy” and “future champion” player reaches their prime. But Gauff ’s
were thrown around like sweets. father has ploughed a different path. Having
coached her since she was six, he had the
Overnight she achieved worldwide fame, foresight recently to employ coach Diego
major sponsorship deals and magazine cover Moyano to supplement her training.
shoots. Not that it was entirely unexpected “We’ve heard some horror stories in
– when she was barely out of primary school, tennis regarding tennis dads,” she says. “I’m
the girl from Florida was already telling so thankful to my dad. Between him and my
anyone who would listen: “I want to be the mum, he’s always the one pulling me out of
greatest”. Aged 10, she was hand-picked to
train with Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena
Williams’s former coach. As a standout
junior she won the French Open girls’ title
aged 14 and reached the junior US Open
final. But her life-altering
graduation to the big leagues
still took some getting
used to.

Looking back on her
breakthrough blur now
Gauff wishes she could
have offered her 15-year-
old self some blunt advice.
“I would say, ‘You’re crazy,
you’re putting so much
pressure on yourself ’,” she
laughs. “She was crazy.”

“I think I’ve learnt a lot over the
last three years,” she says now.
“That moment – beating Venus at
Wimbledon – made me believe that
my dreams were closer to reality than it
felt. It was definitely a lot to deal with.
The biggest thing I’ve learnt is you don’t
have to care about what other people
expect from you. Just enjoy the moment. I
wasn’t enjoying the moment then.”

Heading into Wimbledon next week,
Gauff ’s mentality has changed significantly.
Rather than a sports psychologist, or new
coach, she credits the epiphany to solo walks
around the Jardin des Tuileries during the
French Open. She had just celebrated her
high-school graduation, and was in reflective
mood.

“It just kind of happened,” she says. “I
would go on walks in the morning, people
watch. You take a step back from life and
your own head. Seeing the ducks in the lake,

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Career milestones

2017 Junior US Open,
runner-up

2018 Junior French Open,
winner

2019 Beats Venus
Williams on
Wimbledon debut,
reaches 4th round

2021 US Open doubles,
first major final,
runner-up

2022 French Open,
runner-up

Active campaigner: Coco
Gauff with her father and
coach, Corey (right);
writing ‘Peace – end gun
violence’ on a TV camera
(below) after winning her
French Open semi-final,
(below right) speaking at
a protest march in Florida
in 2020 after the killing
of George Floyd and (far
left) after beating Venus
Williams in 2019

tennis, telling me to go do something else if As she speaks, confidently traversing some
I’ve only been doing tennis for a few days.” of the most challenging issues of our time, it
is easy to forget Gauff is still a teenager. Until
Her parents insisted she finish her she breezily switches into talking about the
schooling, and are intent on Gauff taking joy of life without homework, binge-watch-
college classes alongside playing. They also ing RuPaul’s Drag Race, and her younger
encourage her to speak out on social issues brothers mocking her French Open final
that have hit close to home. In 2020, at the defeat. “My brothers cracked me up,” she
height of the Black Lives Matter movement, says. “Codey [14] was like, ‘You’re in Paris and
Gauff made an off-the-cuff speech at a you just made a final and you’re crying’. To
protest following the death of George Floyd my youngest brother [Cameron, nine], he was
at the hands of police officers. It went viral. like, ‘You’re going to turn into a meme! You
And when she won her semi-final in Paris better stop crying’. Codey probably doesn’t
this month, she wrote “End gun violence” on know how much making a joke in that
the television camera lens in response to the moment meant, but it meant a lot to me.”
school shooting in Texas.
If she was crestfallen after losing in Paris,
‘We’ve heard horror stories Gauff bounced back with ease reaching the
about tennis dads. I’m so semi-final in Berlin on grass. Now she is
thankful to mine. He’s always the tipped as one of a new young generation of
one pulling me out of tennis’ contenders at Wimbledon, including
21-year-old favourite Swiatek and US Open
“The first thing my dad said to me after I champion Emma Raducanu.
got off court: ‘I’m proud of you and I love
what you wrote on the camera’,” she said at “It’s definitely a transition happening,” she
the time. It is an activist streak that runs in says of her peers. “It’s pretty cool. Emma and
her blood, she explains. Her maternal Iga I didn’t know as well during juniors, but
grandmother, Yvonne Lee, was the first black we always played some of the same tourna-
student to integrate her high school in ments though and played ITFs at the same
Florida more than 60 years ago. time. To see everyone you’ve known for a
long time doing well, it’s cool. I always root
“Those are issues [racism and gun for Iga, Emma or Leylah [Fernandez] when
violence] that, regardless of politics you I’m not playing them.”
believe in, can definitely be resolved,” Gauff
says. “I think for me it’s important to talk Wimbledon, she insists, remains the
about that. If I don’t, I’m doing a disservice to tournament she feels most nervous at.
my family, because my family – and my Walking through the tunnel on to Centre
grandmother especially – have pretty much Court, blaring rap music from J. Cole or
been activists, so I’d feel like I’m doing a Jaden Smith in her headphones, the juxtapo-
disservice to the people that came before me, sition between the teen spirit she represents
my ancestors.”
and the “whole royalty thing” at SW19 is
most stark to her. “Other tournaments play
into pop culture and urban areas, but there

you feel like you’re the Queen.”

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Colour concerns: White clothing has been an issue for (clockwise from top left) Rennae Stubbs, Tatiana Golovin (sporting the red shorts which made her headline news at Wimbledon), Monica Puig and Qinwen Zheng

Is white still right at Wimbledon?

Club’s insistence on Rio Olympics gold medallist, on top of that, or making sure that wearing the shorts was not because was on the floor throwing up,” she
recalled the “mental stress” of you have an extra-large tampon she was worried about coming on recalls. “I felt like I got hit by a
traditional clothing having to wear white at Wimble- before you go on the court. I think her period – she simply forgot to train. I didn’t really know the
don and “praying not to have your it might have been the one time take them off after her warm-up. extent of the pain that was about to
can cause a problem period during those two weeks”. that I actually left the court at Nevertheless, she has mixed come crashing down on me.”
Wimbledon, when I did have my feelings towards having to wear
for women players on Wimbledon prides itself on its period. The match went three sets white as a female player. “It’s So debilitating were her symp-
all-white dress code – conceived in and I had to go off and change.” something that is always on your toms that Stubbs ended up going
their period, writes the 1800s to minimise sweat stains mind when you’re a woman who on the pill for almost a decade to
on coloured clothing – which sets it That view is echoed by Tatiana has to come to Wimbledon,” says improve her menstrual health. Her
Fiona Tomas apart from the other Grand Slams. Golovin, the former Russian-born Golovin, 34, who still keeps her experience has shaped her outlook
“Tennis whites are boring unless French player and mixed-doubles treasured red shorts in the loft of on how menstruation is perceived
Ask Catherine Whitaker whether it’s Wimbledon, where it’s classy,” French Open winner. “For an her Paris home. “I feel no one’s in tennis. “Nobody wants to see the
Wimbledon’s strict all-white dress Serena Williams famously once athlete, it’s very tricky to wear really said anything because maybe all-white rule change at Wimble-
code has outlived its time and the said, a line immortalised on the white because you have the no accidents have ever happened. don,” she says. “It’s what makes
tennis broadcaster does not hold wall at the Wimbledon Museum. Women have always kind of just Wimbledon so special and it’s
back in her response. “I would like Voice for change: dealt with it. I think they [organis- something other players enjoy.
to see it change,” she says. “If they The Championships have often ers] would obviously take this very What needs to be discussed more is
had a clothing policy that affected drawn attention for their clothing Broadcaster Catherine seriously if it were an issue and if understanding that every month
men in the way that it does women, rules: Andre Agassi boycotted them people would complain.” there are some players who really
I don’t think that particular from 1988 to 1990 because he Whitaker would like to see do deal with a lot of pain and have
tradition would last. I cannot preferred flashier apparel, while While the tradition of wearing to go out on the court and still give
imagine going into the biggest day Roger Federer was pulled up for Wimbledon drop its rules white at Wimbledon continues, 100 per cent.”
of my life, with my period, and wearing shoes with orange soles in organisers have upped their efforts
being forced to wear white.” 2013. Martina Navratilova claimed on white clothing around female athlete health: from Whitaker shares the sentiment,
officials had “gone too far” when making sanitary products available but is at pains to point out an
Whitaker’s views come off the she was told her blue-striped skirt photographers, you have pictures in women’s changing rooms, to a unintended consequence of the
back of a discussion that unexpect- violated regulations. Yet until now everywhere, you’re sliding on the dedicated medical team, support strict all-white code can force
edly gripped women’s tennis last no female player has publicly court, you’re falling, you’re playing, for players on their period is at an players to manipulate the timing of
month when Qinwen Zheng questioned the practicality of your skirt’s flying up,” she says. all-time high. their monthly bleed. “I’m delighted
opened up about how menstrual whites around menstruation. “I’ve always thought that it’s better to live in a world where the pill is
cramps affected her in her defeat to wear something darker, just to “We want to ensure we are available but I would not want
by Iga Swiatek at the French Open. “We’ve all talked about it in the feel more comfortable.” prioritising women’s health and anyone to feel pressurised to take
“I live in fear of getting my period locker room,” says former Austral- providing players with anything an extremely strong medication
during a week when I’m presenting ian player Rennae Stubbs, a But when Golovin appeared at they require,” says an All England with side effects simply because of
on TV,” Whitaker punched into two-time doubles champion at the the 2007 Championships wearing Club representative. a clothing policy that disadvan-
Twitter. “And that involves no red shorts it sparked a flurry of tages women,” she says. “I can’t
strenuous physical activity, All England Club in 2001 and 2004. headlines. “Cheeky Golovin refuses It is the sort of help Stubbs believe more people don’t come
policing of my toilet breaks, or “At Wimbledon, you’re very to drop her red knickers” read one. craved. She still vividly remembers
requirement to wear white.” cognizant of making sure that “Golovin is getting her red the day, aged 25, she withdrew an into press [conferences] and say,
knickers in a twist,” said another. ‘Well, you try playing a tennis
The post sent social media into everything’s ‘good to go’ the Ever after, organisers clamped hour before a doubles match at the match in all white with your
overdrive. Monica Puig, the 2016 moment you walk on the court down on coloured undergarments. 1996 Atlanta Olympics because her
– making sure that you have a period pains were so unbearable. “I period! It’s mind-blowing.”
Golovin maintains the reason for
tampon. A lot of women have pads

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Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill especially heading into
Wimbledon. Parents are front and
A pushy parent in sport centre of most tennis players’ lives
is not always a bad thing because the elite pathway starts at
a much earlier age than athletics.
With Wimbledon DAVID ROSE FOR THE TELEGRAPH
While I was just trying out
starting next week, In the spotlight: Emma Raducanu and her father, Ian, will be the focus of intense attention at Wimbledon over the next fortnight athletics at my local club, aged
nine, at the same age Emma was
let us avoid putting my family might be perceived. Up me: “Just be careful what you put they pushy? I was supposed to be already playing national
until London 2012, my family had on Facebook. Everybody’s going to the golden girl of the home competitions. Her parents needed
Emma Raducanu’s never been scrutinised. But in the want to know about everything.” Olympics, and clearly they were to be involved, helping to navigate
run-up to the Games I will always And she was right. Journalists searching for something a little the national governing body,
family set-up under remember my friend Shelley began turning up at my parents’ edgy and untoward. funding, coaches and medical
Rudman, who won Olympic silver house. Everyone wanted to know support for their young daughter.
unfair scrutiny in the skeleton in 2006, saying to what my parents looked like, were For Emma Raducanu that
dynamic is multiplied tenfold, Once the action starts, her
I never had a so-called pushy parents will be literally centre stage
parent to get me into sport. My – sitting in the players’ box
mum and dad encouraged me alongside the coach while TV
to try athletics as a way of cameras pan across, capturing even
burning off energy, but there the most nuanced facial
was no elite sporting career expressions, family dynamics
master plan. As a teenager, seemingly blown up on our
when I began thinking about screens. All it takes is one look
wanting to hang out with my captured by photographers and it’s,
friends instead of going to “Gosh, he’s a pushy dad he’ll be
training, my mum would say: furious after that game”. It runs
“Don’t be a sheep!” But there away with itself. I think a lot of
was never any pressure, my people are not really prepared for
parents were very relaxed. that level of scrutiny. But we live in
a world now where, more than
I do think, though, whether ever, everyone wants to know
it is your coach or a family every little detail of someone’s life.
member, someone in your
set-up needs to provide the We have this really small
nudge to take your sporting snapshot of an athlete’s life, we
interest seriously. As a child, or judge them on first impressions
teenager, you can easily make and the headlines we have read and
the wrong decisions – you need this preconception that if you are
someone to give you a mature involved as a parent you are toxic.
perspective on what the future
might be if you focus on sport. Sometimes, of course, that might
be the case. There was one girl who
For me, that person was my was coached by her dad when I was
grandad, Rod. He is the one coming through as a junior. She
who kept all my times from was tall and strong and trained
when I started, all my loads, four times a week, she was
certificates. He was a massive already doing weights and way
sports fan who played tennis ahead of everyone else. But I just
into his 70s, and was genuinely
excited by the prospect of what Someone in your set-up
I could do in sport. My grandad
would incentivise me with the needs to provide a nudge
promise of £5 for a personal
best – until he realised I was to take your sporting
doing PBs all the time and had
to change the bonus structure! interest seriously

At that point there was no remember her being really
other financial incentive, and I miserable and not enjoying being
could not take on a part-time at competitions. You could see the
job, as some of my friends did, pressure put on her by her dad. It is
because of training important to work as a team to get
commitments. Growing up we the balance right, so that coach and
did not have much money, life parent are not both coming as one
was hard for my mum when I big force on the athlete. That would
look back – she was stressed be too much for anyone.
about paying bills and my
grandad helped to take the I think it takes a really rounded
pressure off. person to be able to be a coach and
family member at the same time.
Although athletics is not an You have to wear so many different
expensive sport compared to hats, it is very tough.
some, there were outgoings
like having to buy spikes and But it can work. Jenny Meadows
kit, or being able to put petrol and Trevor Painter are a good
in the car to take me to example – he was her coach pretty
competitions. Grandad helped much her whole career, and they
to take that pressure off and are married. They are super
played a pivotal role in me successful and feed well off each
continuing with my sport. other.

Along the way, I never Returning to Wimbledon next
thought that much about how week will be tough for Emma. Her
last appearance there was stressful
and prompted a national debate
about mental health.

She came out of it amazingly, but
no doubt she will still have those
memories and emotions, and she
will want to show how she has
developed.

What we do know about Emma
is her resilience to deal with
pressure – from winning the US
Open, to everything that has
happened since, with juggling
endorsements and the intense
spotlight on her. She is doing
amazing things for women’s sport,
and her profile is great for women
everywhere.

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Beryl Burton’s miracle Phenomenon:
Beryl Burton (left)
12-hour ride in 1967 is claimed the
outright 12-hour
a contender for sport’s record in 1967; she
also competed in
greatest achievement, the 24-hour (right);
daughter Denise
argues Jeremy Wilson (below right) took
up cycling early;
in his book on cyclist at the 1962
women’s world
Beryl Burton woke shortly before road championships
4.30am on the morning of Sunday, (below) with Paola
Sept 17, 1967. She liked to be up for a Scotti (left) and
few hours before racing and, after a Florinda Parenti
simple breakfast, had a last check
of her kit: bike, cycling shoes, COLORSPORT; ALAMY; ROULER CC; GETTY IMAGES
water bottles, flasks of tea and the
small parcels of food that would be Think Serena beating Federe
passed by her husband, Charlie,
every 15 miles. terms of timing, and so physically all over me. I could hardly accept Beryl Burton. She saw other time, who was producing the best
was only 78 seconds behind on the that after all those hours and miles cyclists the way a swallow might performance of his life? “Mac
The family, including 11-year-old road. Charlie began shouting times I had finally caught up with one of view a fly, gobbling up thousands raised his head slightly and we
daughter Denise, squeezed into at Beryl as she passed, increasingly the country’s great riders who, in her career. Most just ignore the looked at each other side by side,”
their Cortina car and set off on the excited by what might be. His wife himself, was pulling out a record person they are passing, but it is she said. “I was carrying a bag of
short journey towards the still felt physically strong but had ride. ‘Poor Mac, it doesn’t seem considered good etiquette to offer a Liquorice Allsorts in the pocket of
Yorkshire market town of developed stomach cramps, fair,’ I thought. I drew alongside … word or two of encouragement. my jersey and on impulse I groped
Wetherby. At 7.11am, Beryl would perhaps a result of the fresh steak then came the moment which has Beryl always said something but, in into my sweetie bag and pulled one
begin an attempt at the record for that her husband had been passing now passed into cycling legend.” her blunt Yorkshire twang, was just out. It was one of those Swiss
the longest distance cycled in 12 up after cooking them on a as likely to say something cutting. roll-shaped ones. White, with a
hours. Two weeks earlier, the roadside Primus stove. A Rennie Speak to almost anyone – male or “C’mon lad, you’re not trying!” was black coating. ‘Liquorice Allsort,
30-year-old had won her seventh washed down with a mouthful of female – who raced in Britain one favoured remark. So what Mac?’ I shouted. He gave a wan
world title, demolishing a field that brandy soon solved the problem during the 1960s or 1970s and they would Beryl say to McNamara, the smile. ‘Ta, love,’ he said, popping
included full-time state-sponsored and, after 235 miles and more than will invariably tell you about the leading men’s time triallist of the the sweet into his mouth. I put my
riders from the Soviet Union and 10 hours of continuous cycling, experience of being caught by head down and drew away.
East Germany. Today, Beryl would McNamara finally came into view.
complete a three-mile warm-up RECORD FOR DISTANCE CYCLED IN 12 HOURS “There I was, first on the road,
before gently pedalling up behind a They were completely alone. No 99 men behind me. Mac was doing
queue of the last men’s riders witnesses were present for this Miles travelled Women’s Men’s a sensational ride but his glory,
setting off at one-minute intervals unique moment in sporting richly deserved, was going to be
for the individual time trial. history. Beryl later recounted her Beryl Burton 277.25 overshadowed by a woman.”
thoughts in her 1986 autobiography In 1967 276.52
“Thirty seconds,” said the Personal Best: “I came to within a Marshals were positioned
timekeeper, Arnold Elsegood, few yards of him and then I froze, Mike McNamara 290.07 around the finishing circuit and,
before she was to start the women’s the urge in my legs to go faster 325.25 with his 12 hours up at exactly
race. Beryl nodded. And then the vanished. Goose pimples broke out Alice Lethbridge 7.09pm, McNamara was signalled
words that send a surge of In 2017 305.25 to stop. Beryl had until 7.11pm and,
adrenalin through any cyclist:
“Five, four, three, two, one ... Go!” Joe Skipper
Beryl muttered a “thank you”,
stood up on the pedals and pressed Projected if Beryl used
down. “Do your best, lass – make it a modern TT bike
crack,” were Charlie’s last words as
his wife disappeared into the
distance for a sporting
achievement that would shatter
preconceptions of a woman’s
capabilities in endurance sport.

As the top seed, Mike McNamara
had been last of the 99 male
competitors to start. There was
then a two-minute gap to Beryl and
what was ostensibly a separate
women’s race – albeit with just four
riders taking part. McNamara went
through the first 100 miles in 4hr
14min 55sec, powering along at an
average speed of almost 24mph.
Beryl was only 58 seconds slower
but, as she would later explain, had
been “riding easily” at the start.

“Time passed pleasantly for the
first few hours,” she said. “I felt
good, the wheels hummed, and so
did I now and again.” Beryl, who
loved opera music, duly covered
the next 100 miles in a remarkably
even-paced 4-17-44 to move 18
seconds ahead of McNamara. The
peculiarities of interval starts,
however, meant she was physically
still behind on the road and
unaware that she was now leading
the men’s and women’s races.

Club riders and spectators began
to gather in unusually large
numbers around the 15.87-mile
finishing circuit near Borough-
bridge as word spread locally that
something special was happening.
“It was mayhem,” George Baxter, a
marshal on the course’s main hill,
said. “No cars could get through.
Only people and bikes.”

After completing the first
finishing circuit, Beryl had moved
42 seconds ahead of McNamara in

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‘We put in same
hours and make
same sacrifices’

er – she was that good Close the launch of The Telegraph’s “Close
the gap the gap” campaign for fair prize
having pedalled a further three- than the current women’s record, Jean King and Bobby Riggs in the money in sport. Backers of the
quarters of a mile up the road, and still good enough to win two of “Battle of the Sexes”. Seven years Despite breaking records, campaign include the cyclists
flopped down on a large patch of the past three British men’s 12-hour later, that televised tennis contest Alice Lethbridge has found Lizzie Deignan and Laura Kenny.
grass by the A59. Her final distance championships. would be watched by 90 million that prize money is far from
read 277.25 miles, amounting to an people, tuning in to see a woman equal, writes Jeremy Wilson “As female athletes, we put in the
average speed of 23.1mph through “As far as I know, in all of sport, it beat a man. How things might have same number of hours and make
720 continuous minutes of effort. has never happened that a woman been different for cycling, had Beryl Burton’s prize for her 12-hour the same sacrifices, yet our rewards
has broken a men’s record,” Phil those same sports fans been able to ride in 1967 that surpassed both the are completely different,” said
She had ridden almost 40 miles Liggett, the cycling commentator, see Beryl and McNamara – two women’s and men’s records? The Kenny, Team GB’s most successful
further than the next-best woman said. Another celebrated male rider athletes at the peak of their powers precise sum of £1/10 shillings. And female Olympian. “What message
had ever managed and almost six she passed that day was Keith – battle it out for supremacy. yet for Mike McNamara, the fastest does this send?”
miles more than the previous men’s Lambert, a future triple British “People regularly still ask me how in an entire field of 99 men whom
record, which had itself been professional men’s road race good Beryl was, and the best way I she also caught and beat? Almost Deignan was awarded a first
broken two minutes earlier by champion. Beryl had started 18 can put it is this,” McNamara’s three times as much at £4. prize of just £1,313 compared to
McNamara. Burton’s 12-hour minutes behind Lambert before brother, John, said. “Just imagine more than £25,000 for the men
women’s record would stand for reeling him in. “I think she said that Serena Williams played Roger The discrepancy will come as when she won the first women’s
half a century before finally being something like, ‘C’mon lad, what Federer at Wimble-don. And little shock to anyone who rode in Paris-Roubaix last year.
broken by Alice Lethbridge in 2017, are you doing?’,” Lambert said, imagine that she beat him. That’s an era when prizes for women
several decades after cycling’s shaking his head. how good Beryl was.” cyclists were as likely to be There is at least now a minimum
aerodynamic revolution had pouches of washing powder or wage for leading women’s profes-
transformed time-trialling speeds. “What a day. Goodness me. Adapted from ‘Beryl: In Search of hair-curling tongs as money and sional cycling teams, but you do
Wind-tunnel tests have Unbelievable. She was as hard as Britain’s Greatest Athlete’, by Jeremy trophies. Rather more surprising, not have to scratch far beneath the
subsequently estimated that Beryl’s nails. A phenomenon.” Wilson (Pursuit/Profile £20), which however, is what happened when surface to hear multiple stories of
277.25 miles would equate to will be out on July 7 and is available one of sport’s greatest records was unpaid “professional” riders also
305.25 miles on modern Beryl would see McNamara at on preorder. finally beaten. working full-time outside the
technology – over 15 miles more hundreds of events in the years that sport. Lethbridge, who is 37,
followed, but they never once Alice Lethbridge, a biology combines her job as a teacher with
discussed a duel in the vein of Billie teacher from Surrey, achieved that representing Great Britain in the
feat some 50 years later in 2017, but UCI’s Esports World Champion-
her £40 prize was only the same as ships on Zwift and riding women’s
the third-placed man that day. World Tour races for the AWOL
O’Shea team.
“Prize allocations in time trials
are still completely down to the Training is simply crammed in
discretion of the organiser,”
Lethbridge explains. “Some are ‘What more can I do to
brilliant, but a lot of organisers will be respected as a cyclist
say, ‘I am not giving the winning in the same way as the
woman the same as the leading male competitors?’
man because she is racing against
fewer people’. before school at 5am and between
marking at weekends.
“Being told that our perfor-
mances are not equal to men’s is a “For girls, it often has to be a
common theme when we raise this. hobby rather than a profession,”
But when you have ridden a time she says, even if being the person
that was really high on the all-time who broke Burton’s most famous
list and you are getting less than record is the sort of accolade that
the leading man who is nowhere money cannot buy.
near top of the men’s list, you do
think, ‘What more can I do to be “It was a spine-tingling moment
respected as a cyclist in the same – and even now, five years later, it
way as the male competitors?’ ” still doesn’t feel real,” she says.

Cycling was more than 50 years Another vocal champion for
behind swimming and athletics in women’s cycling is the Eurosport
allowing women into the Olympics presenter Orla Chennaoui.
in 1984 at Los Angeles, and the very
fact that the Tour de France “A survey by The Cyclists’
Femmes – a women’s race finally to Alliance last year showed that there
compare to the men’s Tour de has been a growing wage disparity
France – is being relaunched this gap between the women’s world
year tells its own story. teams and the continental teams,”
Chennaoui said.
Previous incarnations were
staged only intermittently between “We have seen massive progress
1984 and 2009. but, when you look at the continen-
tal teams, the number of riders not
Vast disparities also remain paid a salary had increased to 34
inside the women’s professional per cent in 2021.”
peloton and, even for the history-
making winner at the top of This reality makes prize-money
La Super Planche des Belles at the critical on a practical as well as
end of the eight-stage race on July symbolic level but, having guest-
31, the €50,000 (£43,000) first edited the record-selling Rouleur
prize will be a mere tenth of what is magazine that exclusively featured
on offer to the men. women’s cycling, Chennaoui is
certain that the interest is there.
Such discrepancies were
highlighted in a parliamentary “Women’s racing tends to be
debate earlier this year following more dynamic and less formulaic,”
she says. “It is all changing but
disparities remain and you don’t
want to be the sport that is left
behind. Why be dragged into
2022?”

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‘I wanted them to
fail to prove I should
have been there – I
hated myself for it’

Beth Mead had dark
thoughts after missing
the Olympics but is
now focused on Euros
glory with England,
writes Luke Edwards

It is not something she is proud of, memories, the decisions that ‘I was me. That wasn’t me, it’s not
but, as the 27-year-old admits, it appeared to make no sense. “I came stressed by like me. They weren’t
was bitterness that inspired Beth into the camp and was told to play all of it, but emotions I had
Mead’s outstanding season for at left-back or right-back. I was it lit a fire experienced.”
Arsenal and return to prominence there to make up the numbers. It under me.
with England. wasn’t much fun. In fact, I hated it. I was not But an angry Mead is a
You shouldn’t be thinking like that going to good Mead, it seems. Her
As one of Sarina Wiegman’s when you are picked for England feel like frustration proved a
in-form players prepares for the but there’s no point denying it now. that again’ motivator going into the
start of this summer’s European Women’s Super League
Championships on home soil, she “Nobody said anything. Nobody season, and played a part in
reflects on “the lowest point of her gave a reason or said where I one of the most exciting title
career”, and the horrible emotions needed to improve or why other races in history.
that came with it. players were picked for the
Olympics and I wasn’t. The only “I’m competitive in
This time last year Mead was in a feedback I got was that I was ‘too everything I do. I want to win
dark and twisted frame of mind. aggressive in the way I played’, I and I wanted to go to the
Left out of an England training couldn’t get my head round that. Olympics. I was stressed by all of
camp, long before she was told she That had always been the way I’d it, but it lit a fire under me. I was
would not be going to the played. It felt like an excuse. not going to feel like that again. If
Olympics, the forward reveals she anything, I was the most
spent much of last summer “That summer was tough. I tried determined and focused I’d ever
wanting Team GB to fail. to support the girls and, of course, been when I got back to Arsenal.”
when the games started I wanted
Hurt and annoyed, the former my friends to win. But I found Mead has since been named
Sunderland player was plagued by myself sitting at home and I was Arsenal’s player of the year –
negative thoughts to the point that actually having negative thoughts bagging 11 goals and nine assists,
she wanted some of those picked to about some of the players, wanting her best season for the club – but
underperform. She wanted people them to do badly so that people there was damage to be repaired.
to realise it was a mistake to leave realised it was a mistake not taking
her at home. Having played with a physical
edge since she was a six-year-old in
Mead hated herself for it, but the
feelings of rejection had caused Hotshot: Beth
this uncharacteristic animosity. Mead celebrates
She did not blame Hege Riise, the her quickfire
Norwegian manager on a short- hat-trick against
term contract following the sudden Northern Ireland
departure of Phil Neville, but could and (left) with
not get over being dumped in such England manager
an insensitive fashion. Sarina Wiegman

“I wasn’t in a good place last
summer,” says Mead, “and I hate
myself for feeling like I did. But
things were handled badly and I
was hurt. I was angry and confused
and it just wasn’t done correctly. I
did feel as though I had been let
down and badly treated.

“To be part of the England set-up
for so long and then dropped, for
nobody to explain why or give a
good reason for it … then I was

brought back into the squad
because of injuries, people pulled
out and it was terrible.”

Mead recalls the painful

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a mixed team in North Yorkshire, Africa gathers to
play under cloud of
being told she was “too aggressive” anti-gay legislation

was crushing. It felt she was being Ghana’s proposed The journey of women fighting
new law is a blight on for the right to live openly as part of
derided for the qualities that had next month’s Women’s the LGBTQ community has many
Africa Cup of Nations, parallels with the battle for women
made her the player she is. writes Esther to be able to play sport in Africa. In
Owusua Appiah-Fei 1991 women’s football cemented its
She praises manager Jonas new-found global status with a
From the other end of the phone, Role model: World Cup in China, but preceding
Eidevall for restoring her the quaver in her voice is palpable. Portia Modise it – in Nigeria – was the inaugural
The Ghanaian footballer, who (right) playing for Wafcon, to determine who would
confidence at club level, but it is wishes to remain anonymous, is South Africa at the represent the continent at the new
recalling the night she went out to London Olympics in competition. The announcement
the Dutchwoman brought in to celebrate her birthday in 2012 sparked a wave of interest, but
Ashaiman, Accra. there remained a deep-rooted
lead England at their home Euros prejudice against girls playing the
“I decided to use the washroom game. In African culture, girls
who has “been a breath of fresh and a group of guys ganged up on playing football remains alien – and
me and completely battered me,” the fallout can be toxic.
air”. “She [Wiegman] has been she says. “They thought I was a gay
man.” Margot [not her real name] So it still seems incredible that a
great,” Mead says. “She has that once dreamed of representing her record 55,000 fans packed out the
country in the Women’s Africa Cup National Stadium at Lagos to cheer
experience of winning a home of Nations (Wafcon), instead, she on Nigeria against Ghana in 1991.
ended up in hospital. As an athlete Nigeria won and went on to beat
Euros with Holland [in 2017], she with Differences of Sexual Devel- Cameroon in the final, qualifying to
opment (DSD), she remains too represent the continent at the
knows how to go about frightened to reveal her identity. World Cup in China that same year.

things. When she talks, Morocco will host the 14th Growing up in South Africa,
edition of Wafcon, which starts on Portia Modise dreamt of life as a
we listen. July 2. But while the global professional footballer. But in the
community celebrates pride 80s, being gay was punishable with
“There has been month, and many sportspeople in a prison sentence. These days
the north proudly share their
this impression stories of coming out, for sports- South Africa acknowledges queer
that she is strict, women in Africa’s LGBTQ commu- rights by law. But “corrective” rape
but that isn’t the nity life is very different. and abuse are still prevalent. In
2008 Modise’s national team-mate,
first word I “When my national team and Eudy Simelane, was murdered for
would use. She club found out that I was intersex, I being a lesbian. She was abducted,
is very direct. was dropped and fell into depres- gang raped, beaten, and stabbed 25
sion,” says Margot. “It was tough. I times in the face, chest, and legs.
You might don’t want to do the corrective
call that surgery as I know the implications Against the odds, and because of
blunt in it can cause. All I want is to be her talent, Modise was made
England, but myself and play the game I love but captain of the Bayana Bayana in
Ghana isn’t friendly to me.” 2004. For the next decade, she
it’s also fought for the rights of queer
very Ghana is on the verge of passing women in football – a journey she
Dutch. a law prohibiting contact with charts in her book, From Portia
They LGBTQ people, a bill that has been Modise With Love. “In the national
always go straight to the point. met with global opposition. Many team, we weren’t allowed to be
We needed that, some straight African countries inherited openly gay,” she says now. “The
talking. repressive anti-gay laws from federation told us not to reveal our
“She isn’t unkind but from colonial times; in recent years queerness to the public but rather
day one, we knew what she however some – such as Mozam- lie that we had boyfriends.”
wanted and how she expected bique and Botswana – have begun
things to be done. She has to remove them. Wafcon kicks off on July 2 but
standards and she demands players from the LGBTQ commu-
they are met. When you But in Ghana, the presence of a nity with the potential to shine
know what is expected from right-wing, US-based Christian have – largely – been shut out.
you, that’s fine. There have group pushing anti-abortion laws Others, in various national teams,
been no complaints. I love and preaching against same-sex carry the burden of their secrets. It
playing for her.” marriage is said to have fueled is a heartbreaking price to pay for
Rather than ask to curb her momentum around the anti- being “different”.
natural instincts, Wiegman LGBTQ bill. If it is passed, people
has encouraged Mead to be who identify as LGBTQ could be
herself – and she has not lost sentenced to up to 10 years in
her angry side. prison, “conversion therapy”
“It’s a thing [angry Meado],” would be promoted, and parents
she laughs now. “I play my best would be able to force “corrective
football when I’m angry, to a surgery” on DSD children.
certain extent.” Mead recalls a
pivotal moment, a World Cup “The bill is horrible,” says
qualifier against Northern Ireland
in October, when she lit up Ritalucia, a goalkeeper whose
Wembley with a phenomenal three dreams of going professional
goals in 14 minutes. “I was left out, fizzled out when she came out as
rested, dropped and was so angry pansexual. “It is evil of the lawmak-
on the bench. I came on and was, ers to ignore everything else in the
‘Right, watch this!’ country to prosecute citizens who
have done nothing wrong.”
“I feel like I’ve always had to
prove myself to people. Even from
a young age and maybe that wasn’t
always healthy, but I’ve learned to
channel it in the right way.

“At Sunderland, I was the top
scorer in the WSL and still couldn’t
get a game for England. There has
always been stuff like that, where I
feel I’ve got to show people have
made a mistake with me.

“I’ve played some of my best
football this season. I had a point to
prove. Maybe what happened with
the Olympics will prove to be a
blessing in disguise. I wanted to
prove the coaches who said I
wasn’t good enough wrong.

“And all the people who say and
write critical things. Maybe I’m
strange, they always say don’t read
the negative things, but that’s my

fuel, it gets me going. Some
people might find that odd, it’s
just the way I am.”

The difference is, this
summer England do not
want her to change.

Wiegman – and her

team-mates – like Mead
just the way she is.

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“No tienes miedo, gringa?” (Aren’t Running the Andes returning to the pueblos. Wary of
you afraid, foreigner?) Those were helped me face fear attention, I ducked back under my
the questions that accompanied my grey tarp. I had the sense of being
solo run through the Bolivian An extract from her book shows how a solo run through dangerous watched. There were more lights
Andes. “How do you stay safe?” mountains in Bolivia taught Jenny Tough to work with her emotions on the hill now, and my heart beat
“How do you charge your phone?” hard in my chest. “Just don’t come
and, “What about pumas?” (I will down here.” I prepared dinner
admit that one surprised me a without my torch and, as soon as
little.) my tin mug was boiling, switched
off the flame.
Fear is a companion we all travel
through life with. The adventurers Huddled under my tarp, I ate
I watched growing up constantly nervously, gulping down my
proclaimed “fearlessness” as a quinoa and tomato soup far too
value system, banning weakness quickly. I watched anxiously as the
and hesitation. lights on the hill increased.
Workers criss-crossing the trails
And I will admit I had adopted a that would lead them back to the
habit of preparing my campsite for route to their homes. I kept my eye
defence, or a quick escape each on their movement, overwhelmed
night. My shoes were placed next with thoughts of what I could do if
to me with the laces loose and the any of the lights came down to the
tongues pulled back so I could step river. I was tired, exhausted from
into them quickly. The trekking more than 10 days of running. I
pole was laid next to me, a weapon. looked at my belongings – bright
My knife stayed in my right-hand colours favoured by the outdoor
pocket. Every time I woke and industry back home. Reflective
thought I heard something coming, details and bright zippers.
I clenched the folded blade in my
hand. “Ridiculous,” I thought as I
stared at my things. The things I
Still, the locals thought I was was told I would be killed for. And
crazy. Before hitting the final then it started. I noticed one of the
sub-range of Quimsa Cruz, a lights winding its way down to the
mountain range in La Paz, a woman water’s edge. “Don’t come closer.
told me that if I continued into that Please, don’t come any closer.”
valley, I would never come out. “It’s
a very poor region, and the police I thumbed my knife in my
don’t bother going there,” she said. pocket and pulled my shoes on.
“It’s lawless, and there is a lot of The light had reached the edge of
crime. You’re rich, and you will the foliage, and would soon make it
simply be murdered for your things. through the trees that would lead
They won’t think anything of killing to the river. Only a small ford stood
you.” Then: “You do have a gun, between us now. If I had been seen,
right?” I responded that I did not. I was trapped on an island in a deep
She tried, and failed, to disguise the valley with knackered legs. I was a
sitting duck.
I was trapped on an
island in a deep valley The light was now hovering at
with knackered legs. I the water’s edge. My mind raced.
was a sitting duck What would I do? Could I really use
a knife? I had heard the case for not
fear in her eyes. “You really need a CHRIS CHRISTIE fighting back, and just letting them
gun if you want to go there.” take what they would. How would I
recover? The sickest thoughts that
I had grown used to warnings by every woman pushes down came
that point, but that one stuck with rushing to the front. The worst
me a little. For the first time in the news stories I had been aware of.
journey, no one in the pueblo Movies I had to close my eyes for.
[village] greeted me. The younger Things that I knew women all
men stared with disdain. I realised I around the world endured every
was unwelcome. Suddenly, the single day. And now I had to choose
warnings against this valley – how would I handle it?
seemed very realistic.
The light began moving across
My anxiety increased with the the water, and then it picked up
drop in altitude. I removed my pace. Suddenly, it moved incredi-
watch, camera and iPhone, and bly fast – too fast. Firefly. It was a
stuffed them deep in my pack. A f---ing firefly.
feeble gesture – I was still a white
gringa on “holiday”, no one needed I do not believe in fearlessness.
to see which version of the latest Fear is an important function of
GPS watch I was using to know that your human brain that can help
I had more money than them. I had alert you to danger. When fear is
already ducked off the main track, triggered, I listen to it. But fear can
slowly bushwalking my way be limiting. If you let that fear take
alongside the route, hoping to up too much space, let its voice
avoid detection. grow too loud, it takes the helm,
controlling your journey through
Trucks carrying workmen life. It is a companion that, like any
passed now and then, and as soon other long-term relationship,
as I heard the engine from around a requires work. My time in Bolivia
bend, I made sure to be out of sight. forced me really to listen to my own
My fear escalated at every corner voice of fear and find new ways of
and gripped my throat. I decided working with it. It was uncomforta-
that if I saw a public bus – or maybe ble, but I’m grateful for the
a cop car? – I would get in and skip experience. Ever since that
this section. Doing the full length journey, my relationship with fear
of the mountain range meant a lot is healthier than ever.
to me, but surviving meant more.
All I knew, for sure, was that I did ‘Solo: What running
not want to be where I was. If I was
going to trust my instincts, I had to across mountains
listen to what they were screaming
at me. “Get out.” taught me about

As dusk closed in, my anxiety life’ by Jenny Tough
increased. I noticed a few lights on
the hill above me, and remembered is published by
that field workers would be
Aster, £16.99,

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How I Move
Paula Sutton

Influencer talks to Cycling convert: countryside. I love Ashtanga yoga,
Yolanthe Fawehinmi Paula Sutton is but I am not brilliant at it. I have
about combining combining her had three different tutors who were
candles with workouts burgeoning based in Norfolk, but unfortunately
to suit the famous Hill social-media career when people start off as a yoga
House Vintage vibe with well-being teacher around here they don’t
always get enough clients to form a
People see me with my cream group, so they go off and build
cakes, basket and vegetable something else.
garden – - I used to wear Lycra
and listen to hip hop, and I’m My last yoga teacher became a
slowly rediscovering these joys painter and decorator. As a result,
prompted by lockdown! During my practice has become
lockdown I converted my old intermittent.
garage into a vintage gym. It is zen,
and attractive, a space I want to It might sound ridiculous, but
spend time in. looking after the house and
garden is good exercise. I do not
The walls are white, and it has have a gardener or a cleaner, I do
got vintage leather medicine balls everything myself. It keeps me
and a vintage leather boxing bag. going. It is OK to not enjoy the
There is a large antique factory same things that you enjoyed when
mirror, in rusting metal, a Peloton you were a youngster.
bike, and a wooden rowing
machine. If I took all the exercise Growing up I was used to
furniture out, I would still love winning things in sport, but
the room. when I entered the mothers’ race
on school sports day, they all ran
I light an invigorating scented I always past me! I am 52 now, and I have
candle like basil, peppermint or laugh about always been naturally fit and toned.
lemon – and then I get on the myself and I was the athletics captain at my
peloton bike. My ritual starts first say I am a secondary school – I played in the
thing in the morning with some swimming- lacrosse first team, and loved
stretches – I have got to get it over pool snob netball, one of my favourite sports
and done with because my mind is when I was younger. I was really
just so all over the place. I get my metabolism also dropped. Now I’ve sporty as a child, and thought I
’80s and ’90s hip hop on – which I got a miniature Dachshund, but would be fit all my life without
never really listen to otherwise – she’s got tiny legs and is only seven making much effort.
and it reminds me of clubbing months old.
when I was younger. If I am doing I am a black woman born in
yoga, then I will go for a calmer It is hard to keep hold of a good Croydon, who used to high jump
scented candle, like lavender, so it yoga teacher living in the and run for her county, so when it
smells lovely. came to my children’s school sports
day I thought I would nail the
I always laugh about myself and my usual long dog walks. Walking moving. Coco made me walk four mothers’ race. I was 40 at the time,
say I am a swimming-pool snob. was such a positive and solitary miles across fields every day. So I but my goodness, they beat me!
I do not like swimming pools, and experience, which I really felt the impact on my fitness after That is when I realised my body
that stew everyone has been in. If I embraced. Without even trying, I her death and started putting on had changed.
had my own pool, I would be was doing long hikes most weight. Then I reached
swimming all the time, it is such mornings, it was good for my menopausal age and my hormones Rather than going with trendy
great low-impact exercise. I have mental health, and getting my body were all over the place, so my exercise or with what you think
got a bit of arthritis in my knees, you ought to be doing, go with
wrists and other joints, so I value the thing that makes you happy.
strength over being quick and If you enjoy exercising, you are
agile. more likely to stick to it. And if you
stick to it, then your body improves
When my dog Coco died, I was and your mindset improves with it.
devastated and stopped going on
It has to be individually tailored
to you.

And if in doubt, and you do not
want to get on the bike or do yoga,
get a dog. Do exercise without
realising you’re even doing it.

Three events you do not want to miss in the month ahead

Cricket 28, and the return of the Hundred, Athletics world-title defence in what will be their first major piece of silverware
England v South Africa Test starting on Aug 3. World Championships her first major test since splitting against Austria at a sold-out Old
June 27-30 July 15-24 from coach Petros Kyprianou this Trafford on July 6. Sixteen teams –
Five debutants (Emma Lamb, month. including debutants Northern
England’s four-day Test against the Emily Arlott, Lauren Bell, Freya Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith will be TV BBC Ireland, who are in England’s group
Proteas at the Cooper Associates Davies, and Alice Davidson-Rich- looking to put the pain of the along with Austria and Norway –
County Ground in Taunton ards) feature in England’s 13-strong Olympics behind her when she Football will compete in the tournament,
kick-starts a bumper summer of defends the 200metres title she Women’s Euros with the final to be played at an
women’s cricket ahead of the squad for the multi-format series secured in Doha two years ago in July 6-31 87,200 sell-out Wembley. The
Commonwealth Games in as head coach Lisa Keightley’s side Oregon. Heptathlete Katarina Netherlands are the defending
Birmingham, which begin on July start a new era without retired Johnson-Thompson will begin her England will start the quest for champions.
TV BBC
stalwart bowlers Anya Shrubsole
and Katherine Brunt.
TV Sky Sports

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Moment in Time

May 12, 1984
England women play in
their first European final

Carol Thomas started playing Hall of famer: England captain Carol Thomas (above, right) before the first leg of the 1984 European nations championship final against Sweden; (below) at her football-themed wedding
football illicitly, when the game
was still banned by the Football coaching camps. “In six or seven and Debbie Bampton, would leave FA chairman, Bert Millichip, and effort and Sweden were crowned
Association. Thank goodness she years our national squad will have the amateur women’s game behind secretary, Ted Croker, were European champions.
did, because by the spring of 1984, to face the products of this hard to move to Italy, where they earned nowhere to be seen.
then aged 28, the Hull-born and intensive work,” he wrote £600 a month, but Thomas stayed There was no rancour from
right-back made history leading presciently. steadfastly loyal to the domestic Thomas’s bone-shaking tackle England. The semi-professional
England out to their first game, becoming the first English gave possession to her right-wing Swedish players had given
European final. Two of his squad, Kerry Davis woman to win 50 caps before partner, the winger Linda Curl, them some of their spare
retirement in 1986 to have her first who bombed on down the flank in training kit and a Swedish
If plain prejudice and child. Thomas was elected to the the 31st minute to arc a shot over company had stepped forward to
ignorance had not generated the English Football Hall of Fame in the goalkeeper into the top left sponsor the game at Luton.
usual apathy among UK media 2021 and awarded the British
outlets towards covering it Empire Medal in the Platinum England’s women beat Twenty-five years later, Hope
appropriately, a mouthful of a Jubilee Birthday Honours for England’s men in terms Powell, an unused substitute at
boring name would have done as services to the game and charity. of making history – by 37 Kenilworth Road, guided England
much damage. Played over two and 12 years respectively to a second European final – as
legs, the competition was called The away leg of the final, shown manager. But, alas, Powell’s side
the European nations live on Swedish television, was corner, but neither side could find a capitulated to Germany 6-2,
championship – note the lower watched by a crowd of over 5,500 winner in the remaining 39 runners-up once again. Still, in
case for the tournament’s latter at Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadium. minutes. Curl stepped up to take both cases, the women beat the
two nouns – because fewer than England played well but went the first penalty in the shoot-out men in terms of making history
half of Uefa’s membership down 1-0 to Pia Sundhage’s goal. but this time Elisabeth Leidinge – by 37 and 12 years respectively.
participated, it could not be Kenilworth Road hosted the home managed to stop it and, though
officially classified a European leg on its porridgey pitch, a year Theresa Wiseman’s save from Rob Bagchi
Championship and so it laboured before it was dug up and replaced Helen Johansson levelled the To encourage visible female role
under the designation “1984 with an even more notorious shoot-out, Lorraine Hanson, models that will inspire future
European Competition for artificial one. Lennart Johansson of stymied by the mud, scuffed her generations, Carol Thomas is
Women’s Football”. the Swedish FA was among the working with LinkedIn, a national
2,567 who turned up to watch. The sponsor of the Uefa Women’s Euro
When this year’s Euros kick off 2022. Follow Carol on LinkedIn
on the carpet at Old Trafford on and join the conversation*
July 6 on prime-time BBC One,
the contrast for the trailblazers of
1984, who won all six of their
group games, playing home ties at
Gresty Park, Elm Park and a
mudbath at Elland Road at the
end of a season in which it had
already hosted 42 football and
rugby league matches, might well
seem miraculous.

It was indeed a different game
back then. Not only was it ignored
but they played with a size-four
football, two halves of 35 minutes
each and no extra time in the
result of a drawn two-legged
knockout tie.

England’s manager, Martin
Reagan – a former tank
commander who had slogged
through the Netherlands in the
winter of 1944 to reach Germany
– had appointed Thomas captain.
In Reagan, the women’s game had
a fantastic early male champion.
A former winger with
Middlesbrough, Shrewsbury and
Norwich, he had enjoyed a modest
career in the 1950s before moving
into non-League management
with March Town United and
Goole Town. He combined his job
with selling veterinary supplies in
the north of England and never
stopped proselytising.

“We are back-markers when it
comes to enthusiasm, cash and
facilities compared with other
Europeans,” Reagan said,
pointing out that Sweden had
enrolled 357 girls in residential