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Are women in team sports under-reported?

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Guest editor Shirley Williams believes that the media celebrates the achievements of individual women when it comes to sporting triumphs but does not give enough space to the achievements of women's team sports.

Lynne Truss, author of Get Her Off The Pitch!, who used to be a sports journalist, discusses why we seem to enjoy watching men's rather than women's team sport.

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