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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

British sports teams and bodies ‘failing to safeguard’ women from online abuse

England player Jess Carter
Jess Carter revealed she had been racially abused on social media at Euro 2025. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Richard Sellers/Apl/Sportsphoto

Most of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies still have no specific safeguarding policies to protect women from online abuse, research has found.

The study, which analysed the public policies of 52 organisations and clubs across football, cricket and rugby union, warns they are “shirking their duty of care, shifting the responsibility on to athletes to safeguard themselves” as a result.

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