Clearing the hurdles: why we're keeping the spotlight on women's sport

Women’s sport has been reaching new audiences in recent months. Now, we want to maintain that momentum beyond the big momentsEight years ago, when I was sports news correspondent for this newspaper, I found myself hastily dispatched to Helskini to speak to England’s women footballers. They had reached the final of Euro 2009 and, a successful England team being a welcome novelty, we wrote of the hope that their success would change perceptions of women’s sport in this country.Similar predictions were made after Heather Stanning and Helen Glover took Britain’s first gold during that shimmering L…