ISSUE THREE JUNE 2014 Horse’s arse Sports Liberated’s editor enjoys her first foray into polo... once she stops crying Rule Britannia Nostalgic crowds plus a nattily dressed dog flock to London for the World Series triathlon Daddy’s girl A dad’s eye view of the inaugural women’s Tour of Britain NEW EPISODE... How important is a dad’s influence on girls taking up sport? Charlotte and Jo interview their own dads FRONT ROW STORY IN QUOTES to find out, which didn’t 4 26 Poet’s corner, creative volunteering, top Sacrifices were made from a young age feel strange at all five sporting moments, and the best for the tennis prodigy, including barely quotes from Be A Game Changer seeing her mum in her formative years 8 PICTURE GALLERY 28 FEATURED BLOG Stunning global imagery featuring Professional cyclist Chloe Hosking asks mountain biking in Australia, surfing in Pa Hosking to write a dad’s eye view of Brasil and windsurfing in Cape Town 14 the women’s Tour of Britain 14 SPORTS LIBERATED GOES TO... 18 30 EUROPE’S BEST CYCLING CITIES ... London’s World Cup triathlon event From Amsterdam to Paris to Berlin to and found a nostalgic crowd, pain- London, Sports Liberated explores the racked faces and a nattily dressed dog best (we mean flattest) cycling cities Sports do not 18 SPORTS LIBERATED TRIES... 32 EVENTS... BEST OF THE MONTH build character... EPISODE 1: FEMININITY IN SPORT ... polo. Once editor Jo had overcome Featured event is the Hockey World Cup, they reveal it The one where climber Mina her fear of horses and stopped crying plus rowing, sailing, netball, climbing, John Wooden Leslie-Wujastyk talks about femininity she quite enjoyed the hour-long lesson equestrian, football and tennis in sport and England cricketers tell us the importance of training with boys 20 OVA TO YOU 36 ENTERTAINMENT In an era dominated by Eastern bloc The Peak District gears up for the Tour EPISODE 2: TO BE CHICKED tennis stars, we look at the main de France with a cycle-to-the-cinema The one where the ladies discuss characters on the women’s tour initiative and SportBeat festival arrives why it’s not unknown for female WORK LIFE BALANCE QUOTES OF THE MONTH endurance athletes to beat the men 22 37 Is work as an adventure sports The best, worst, funniest, humbling, in the 20-hour plus races photographer all it’s cracked up to be? surprising and moving quotes in the We talk to Jody MacDonald to find out 22 world of women’s sport EPISODE 3: TOUGH AS NAILS The one where a basketball coach who trains both sexes tells us, “Women are definitely harder on themselves”, and we discuss the confidence gained from taking up sport later in life FROM THE EDITOR EPISODE 4: For the love of sport WINTER SPORTS SPECIAL The only ‘money’ that ever changed hands when I competed at Editor The one where wintersports newbie elite-level gymnastics many moons ago was my team-mate winning a Jo Gunston Charlotte ends the show enthused £10 Debenhams voucher. We were secretly pleased it wasn’t a sports [email protected] about the snowy events after shop voucher where she’d feel obliged to put it towards some Designer Jason Keens co-presenter Jo chews her ear equipment. No, siree, she could buy a cassette tape with music that off for an hour about it Writer wasn’t instrumental; she could buy a duvet-sized T-shirt exclaiming Warren Shore ‘Choose Life’ instead of the slim-fitting numbers we had to wear in EPISODE 5: GENERATION GAME training. Or, the holy grail, put it towards a, gasp, ra-ra skirt to make us @sportsliberated The one with an interview with six- all green with envy at the next gym club fund-raising BBQ. This wasn’t www.sportsliberated.com some amateur-hour competitive level, the team-mate in question and nine-year-old girls, how to balance Front cover image a medical degree with training, and competed at the Seoul Olympics for Great Britain, fitting her training Jody MacDonald the ladies are baffled by Charlotte’s around part-time work as a secretary. Twenty years later and I’m attending the Women’s Sport Trust ‘Be a Olympic sport trial Game Changer’ event where four England women captains are being interviewed. Two of the four are full-time pros, cricketer Charlotte Edwards and footballer Steph Houghton, but netballer Pamela Cookey and rugby player Katy McLean, still have to work training around their Nothing in the magazine can be reproduced in whole or jobs. And Steph’s pay? She earns in one year what Chelsea player, in part without the written permission John Terry, earns in a day. Nevertheless, in our wildest imagination it of the publisher, Jo Gunston. Although Sports Liberated has endeavoured to wouldn’t have occurred to our teenage selves that you’d ever get paid ensure that all information in the magazine is correct, prices and details www.sportsliberated.com for doing your sport. It’s dreamworld. may be subject to change. THE COOLEST WOMEN IN SPORT ON THE PLANET www.SportsLiberated.com 03 FRONT ROW FRONT ROW VOLUNTEERING A photo taken by Sports Liberated at a Football Unites, Racism Divides Creative types needed too event in Sheffield, UK THREE GOOD THINGS Sport volunteering isn’t all about handing The Malory Eagles Volleyball Club are COME TO THOSE out sandwiches or encouraging red-faced looking for a journalist to help the club My Little Scrapper WHO WAIT youngsters round an obstacle course. If generate content by writing match by Judy Muldowney In the past few months you’re a more creative type and sports reports. They also need a sport women’s sport has seen photography or journalism is your thing, photographer. Or how about getting some dramatic advances. why not help out at local events? You’ll be experience as a production assistant? Thinking back through all the years The Friends Life getting the practise in and building your Redstone Community Broadcasting are How swiftly they’ve passed by Women’s Tour was a portfolio and contacts at the same time. looking for volunteers to work on the I close my eyes and bite my lip spectacular success with At www.do-it.org.uk there are a plethora Drive Time show providing sighted Try so hard not to cry the fab British public of sports teams advertising for volunteer assistance to the presenter, compile and You were always such a scrapper coming out in all sports photographers, journalists and read news, sports stories and travel weathers to support the A raging thunderstorm even production assistants. London-based bulletins, amongst many other things. cyclists as they zipped examples include the Bangladesh Football Don’t bail out if no one’s advertising in The day you shed your diaper through the hills and dales of southeast England. Not Association who are looking for your area, though – if you’ve got the time You donned a uniform. only that, did you notice something about the name of volunteers to take and edit photos of their and inclination, just offer your services the tour? Did you? Go on, take another look, that’s right, events for newsletters and press releases. wherever you are. Fear - never a factor it was even, gasp, sponsored. Good work Friends Life. With the toughest, there you stood See, you even get mentioned. Twice. You have the will, the soul, Next, did you see the news about the Frauen- Bundesliga? Oh, you did? Okay, well let’s leave that... the heart... Get out of here, you didn’t. The German women’s AN UNTIMELY RIP ALL THAT GLITTERS... But, I always knew you would football league has only gone and got its first ever American swimmer Dara Torres was TOP 5 Judy Guinness reached the individual foil I watch you while you’re sleeping sponsor, a five-year deal with Allianz seeing each of the warming up for the 50m freestyle fencing final at the 1932 Olympics in Los So still, so calm, serene 12 participating teams receiving £82,000. Barely two semi-final at the 2008 Beijing Angeles and was poised to win Britain’s first Once you step upon days work for some Premier League players but Olympics when she noticed her SPORTING ever gold medal in the event. The judges That football field invaluable for the women’s game. rival, Sweden’s Therese Alshammar, awarded her the win, and then something And finally, England women cricketers have been You’re one powerful machine. was having problems with her MOMENTS remarkable happened. The 21-year-old told the given professional contracts for the first time with 18 swimsuit. Torres tried to help the judges that they had missed two hits by her happy ladies selected in the first batch. Smashing times. Swede fix a tear but when that Austrian opponent, Ellen Preis, in the closely I marvel at your talents didn’t work, Dara asked officials to fought match. Guinness picked up silver You’re intense and dedicated delay the race so Alshammar could after one of the Games’ finest shows of So keen, devoted, daring get changed. “In the pool we’re sportswomanship. “We were more friendly – Just as I anticipated competitors, out of the pool we’re more like gentlewomen – in those days,” the by Your qualities are endless friends,” Torres said later. Torres then Mueller-Preis told a Times reporter in 1984. qualified and won silver in the final.