Sunday 31 July 2022 was a memorable day for ladies’s sports activities: England defeated Germany within the ultimate of the European soccer championship 2 – 1 in additional time, in entrance of an viewers of greater than 87 thousand spectators (absolute document in a ultimate of the championship European no matter gender) and 17.4 million viewers on the BBC.
Solely hours later, Australia defeated Fiji 26 – 12 within the ultimate of the rugby sevens match on the Commonwealth Video games in Coventry.
Lastly, additionally on Sunday, the ladies’s Tour de France ended, gained by the Dutch Anemiek van Vleuten (39 years outdated), who beat indifferent and within the final stage (eighth) which ended very fittingly with the ascent of the Tremendous Planche des Belles Filles!
It was a whole success for ladies in three sports activities till not too long ago thought-about “masculine”. England’s ladies achieved their first main success in worldwide soccer since England’s 1966 World Cup ultimate victory over Germany, coincidentally, 4–2 on the similar Wembley Stadium in London. Humorous memes have appeared on Fb concerning England males’s coach Gareth Southgate’s lackluster outcomes over the previous 12 months, with the newly topped champions sporting mustaches and beards.
Australia confirmed the title of Olympic rugby sevens champion gained in Tokyo final 12 months in entrance of Fijians who, like their male colleagues defeated within the ultimate by South Africa, didn’t have an excellent day.
And Anemiek van Vleuten accomplished his document at a comparatively superior age with probably the most prestigious title, the Tour de France, after three victories within the Tour of Italy, an Olympic champion title and a world title, leaving solely the Tour of Spain which he might win this fall.
The passion of the spectators and supporters basically was distinctive on this Sunday on the finish of July, because it has been all through the three competitions. After all, there have been additionally misogynistic remarks on the Web, some downright obscene, however one factor is definite: “manly” sports activities are not a males’s monopoly. And the numerical improve within the variety of practitioners in these sports activities is overwhelmingly resulting from ladies.
The typical disparities between the salaries of female and male skilled athletes within the three sports activities are appreciable, as is the extent of comparative normal curiosity for now, which generates a lot greater earnings for males.
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However Sunday July 31, 2022 dealt a critical blow to prejudice and misogyny in sports activities, and it isn’t simply ladies who’re profitable, however males too.