Greater 'knowledge and awareness' needed about periods for women in sport - The Period Panel

Dr Emma Ross has called for greater funding and education to assess the impact periods have on women in sport. Ross — the former Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport, who specialises in improving sport for women and girls — says more money needs to go into research and also the education of coaches to create «great knowledge and awareness» around the subject. Ad «Research is costly,» she said in conversation on 'The Period Panel' with Eurosport's Orla Chennaoui, England international footballer Jodie Taylor and Team GB track and field athlete Jazmin Sawyers, with the full discussion to be aired on Sunday.

All Sports'Traditionally it hasn't come up!' — Robson on male dominated media not asking about periods12 MINUTES AGO «When you do it on women, you have to take into account the menstrual cycle. And that changes from week to week. In the male body, you know, they still have a hormonal rhythm, everyone has hormones, everyone's hormonal, but in men, it's a 24-hour rhythm rather than a monthly rhythm.

And that does mean that, gosh, we're going to have to either get all of these women at the same time of their cycle and test them on whatever research question we have. »Or we're going to have to test them at four times across the cycle to understand different phases. And as you say, that becomes time consuming and costly.

But that is not an excuse. You know, we have in this country a brilliant reputation for research, you know, we take on cancer, and we don't go 'oh, it's a bit complicated and costly, we won't go there'. We just go 'wow, it's complicated.

It's costly. Let's go after it'. «I think women's bodies have been excluded.