sportswoman

• “In fact, Badminton is the only place where I am known as a sportswoman instead of ‘That woman who is dying.’”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “The sportswoman is a power forward and plays part of the year for the US team Tulsa Shock based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and also turns out for Melbourne's Bulleen Boomers.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Jennifer Capriati would probably feel the same, since it was the tennis tournament in Barcelona that allowed her to demonstrate what the Olympics can do even for a sportswoman already wealthy beyond dreams.”

  The Guardian: Only pettiness makes us sneer at Olympic football | Richard Williams

• “In the short time I was allowed to appreciate your work here I found you to be a talented writer, a sportswoman of integrity and a person who deeply cares for the audience you serve, both men and women.”

  It Takes All Kinds

• “A keen sportswoman in her youth, Wright resolved to target the London Paralympics a few months after having a child, Oscar.”

  The Guardian: Paralympics 2012: The 7/7 survivor who plans to compete at London 2012

• “What players call the Kournikova factor – sex object over sportswoman – is at least as hard to handle in women's football as in tennis, especially since in football the alternative is often to assume all players must be honorary blokes.”

  The Guardian: In praise of … women's football | Editorial

• “The teenager, whose lawyer described her as a "talented sportswoman", boasted that she was having "the best day ever", the court heard.”

  The Guardian: London Olympics girl reported by parents after seeing TV riot

• “There was something beautiful and frightening about the way that she unwrapped her whole body into the serve; she was at one with the racket; a sportswoman personified.”

  Court Out « A Fly in Amber

• “Ann Bonfoey Taylor was a gifted sportswoman and had a discriminating eye when it came to fashion.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Icon Uncovered

• “A host of high-profile awards confirmed her standing, from the Sunday Times sportswoman of the year gong to the prestigious Pat Marshall award from the Rugby Union Writers' Club, who chose Alphonsi over the New Zealand men's captain, Richie McCaw, the first time in its 50-year history that the award was presented to a woman.”

  The Guardian: Maggie Alphonsi the ambassador changing attitudes to women's game

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