Claire Balding tweeted today ...



She was refering to this list ... [urlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_personality/15895642.stm[/url

Does she have a point, is the world of sports reporting totally dominated by males and male sport (I know that Mintball has experience of this) to the almost absolute exclusion of females, are we really bothered about female sport at all in non-olympic years, has anyone seen the BBC's attempts to "big up" female boxing recently by showing a couple of bouts and some background history on the participants and what did you think of the standard ?

Is there a place at all in the media for professional female sport or is it still seen as a bit of a joke ?

I'd say the representatives picked weren't picked for the fact that they were male, it was what they have achieved. I'm sure if Woman had achieved similar they would've been put into the shortlist. As far as I'm aware there hasn't been any outstanding solo female performances this year? I may be being ignorant however.

as lineker said there are no major tournaments this year.with the olympics next year it maybe different and it could be a female dominated one next time!!

I genuinely asked if the SPOTY finilists were for the mens section this morning



Who votes for these people to be up for the award?

journos i believe.

[iNuts, Zoo[/i and [iThe Sun.[/i

Well if boxing were to have a representative, I think Carl Froch would be a much better candidate than Khan

Which unfortunately illustrates the point: women's sporting activity continues outside of Olympic years as well as in Olympic years.

And if coverage of women's sport is poor, then the general public won't know about it, and many will assume that means it isn't happening.

Incredibly [iNuts[/i and [iZoo[/i never nominated a pair of breasts between them.



Bit of positive discrimination from [iThe Voice[/i with some coloured representation.

Good to see the misogynistic idiot doesn't consider the [url=http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/index.htmlWomen's World Cup[/url to be a major tournament

Perhaps you could use your media position to bring paddling pool custard wrestling to a wider audience.

In my view it depends upon the sport ... (n.b. I'm not saying I like all these)

Athletics - women's events are taken very seriously, especially by athletics fans, Olympic year or not - a big tick for that one.
Tennis - disparity in pay but generally taken seriously - tick
Show jumping - tick

Rugby (either code), football, cricket - treated by most people as a novelty.
Boxing - many people don't even like the idea of women boxing.

So, I'd say it's mixed.


Among the journos though? ... oh dear.