The BritMums Blog

BritMums meet Olympic stars

If you were frustrated at not snagging tickets to the Olympic or Paralympic event of your choice, imagine how the athletes have felt. For British athletes, the issue of how to secure seats for their parents, spouse or children is an added stress amid the intense training leading up to next summer. 

Now P&G, an official Olympic and Paralympic sponsor, has stepped in and organised tickets for all the British athletes (or “Team GB”) – two tickets for Olympic athletes and four for Paralympic for their first event.

BritMums on football hits frontpage of Huff Post

After our first column was picked up by none other than the world-famous Washington Post, our follow-up discussing football for girls has been promoted on the front page of the Huffington Post. 
 
Written by Susanna Scott, ‘Football is cool, and it’s for girls too’ details a chance encounter between Susanna and Brandi Chastain, the female footballer who gained celebrity status overnight when she ripped off her top upon kicking the winning goal against China in the 1999 World Cup.

Try something different this weekend: female football

So the World Cup was a damp squib, wasn’t it? Well the men’s World Cup was last year, with England sloping out after a humiliating defeat to Germany. But wipe away the sweat and beer of the men’s game, and look to this year’s women’s World Cup in Germany. 

While Japan were the eventual winners, England’s women’s team fought a brilliant campaign to reach the semi-finals before going out of the competition in a penalty thriller with France. The quarter-final match was watched by over three million live viewers on BBC2, highlighting the growing interest in the female game.