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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claire Savage and Alyce Brown

At the Olympics and beyond, women's sports media outlets are writing their own playbooks

Milan Cortina Olympics - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women's sports back in the 1990s.

“It was absolutely infuriating to me,” said Brennan, a best-selling author who served as the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.

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