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Exeter’s Rob Baxter warns football to be careful what it wishes for with sin-bins

Ifab has supported the move following grassroots trials‘We are meddlers in sport and rugby is worst of lot’ Exeter rugby director Rob Baxter has urged football’s law-makers to be careful after they agreed that sin-bins should be trialled at higher levels of the sport. The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has supported the move following

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Coaches banned from weighing gymnasts in new safeguarding rules

Toilet and drinks breaks mandatory in ‘significant’ step forwardBritish Gymnastics tackling 350 issues after critical review Coaches have been banned from weighing gymnasts and must allow toilet and hydration breaks under new safe sport rules issued by British Gymnastics. The new policy comes almost 18 months after the independent Whyte review heavily criticised British Gymnastics

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Moving the Goalposts | Women’s Nations League: what’s at stake in the final group games?

Olympic spots, promotion, relegation and Euro 2025 qualifying hopes are on teams’ minds in these two rounds of matches The final group stage window of the inaugural Women’s Nations League is fast approaching with countries jostling for promotion and position. While many in League A have the semi-finals in sight, others will be focused on

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Carol Ann Duffy writes poem paying tribute to England’s female footballers

We See You names pioneers of women’s game as well as Lionesses in ‘team talk’ sonnet The UK’s first and so far only female poet laureate has written a sonnet to honour England’s Lionesses and their forerunners. Carol Ann Duffy, who said she grew up in a “footballing family”, pays homage to the trailblazers behind

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