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Women's sport: The naked truth
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Enlarge textWhy doesn't women's sport make the headlines more often? It's about the sport not the gender, writes Matthew Hall.
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Amy Taylor [ROD STEWART/AFP/Getty Images]
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Sport, without spin, from around the world. Matthew Hall considers the issues behind the headlines and tells the stories that others don't.
Matthew Hall Sport, without spin, from around the world. Matthew Hall considers the issues behind the headlines and tells the stories that others don't. Matt is a writer, author, and filmmaker, originally from Perth, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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