IN reply to your correspondent, June Hutt (August 16), I do not think it is true that the media treat sportswomen with little interest.
The excellent Paula Radcliffe and Kelly Holmes are well covered by the media, as are many of the women golfers but, of course, that is a matter of opinion.
What we do see in the media, particularly TV, is a proliferation of female presenters covering male sporting events. Sky Sunrise, each morning, invariably has a young blonde woman giving her version of the previous night's male football, when I should prefer a guy doing the job!
I am not, and never have been, a male chauvinist. When the coverage is of mixed sports such as athletics and tennis, or purely female, such as women's football, then by all means have female commentators.
Sue Barker, Clare Balding and Hazel Irving, as well as looking attractive, are excellent as "front-persons".
But when it comes to going down to the touch-line to interview combatants from men's rugby or soccer I should prefer the interviewer to be male.
Eric Daines,
The Rowans,
York.
Updated: 10:00 Monday, August 29, 2005
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