[https://youtu.be/fOGXvBAmTsY] (YouTube link)Up un...  ...AmTsY] (YouTube link)Up until about 50 years ago, women were excluded from marathons, and indeed the long...  ...deed the longest footrace in the Olympics open to women then was 800 meters -less than a half-mile. In th...  ...than a half-mile. In the earl...

The U.K. government agency Sport England has a new...  ...a new campaign called This Girl Can to encourage women to become active in sports and recreational activities.It comes as research,...  ...ut by us, reveals that at by every measure, fewer women than men play sport regul...