A swearing ban risks making team radio feel sanitised and staged, diminishing the very sense of access that made it compelling and exciting in the first place.
- Associate Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick
Should sports journalists be able to hold athletes to account?
No one is saying the tennis star wasn’t angry. But it’s worth asking whether you thought she was more angry because she is a woman.
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