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Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Aussie Olympian slams coverage of Swiss women's team's loss to 14-year-old boys ahead of Euros
Aussie Olympic star Chloe Dalton wasn't happy with media coverage of the Swiss women's recent loss to an under 15s boys side that made international headlines. The national women's team slumped to a 7-1 defeat to male Under-15 side FC Luzern in a disappointing warm-up match as they prepare to host the Euros next month. The defeat was their second to an Under-15 side in their Euro 2025 preparations having also lost 2-1 to FC Solothurn. Footage of the match circulated on social media and reportedly received 70,000 views on TikTok before being deleted. Switzerland played a second-string team, with boss Pia Sundhage fielding 26 players, including third choice goalkeeper Nadine Böhi. 'I get pretty frustrated by these stories to be honest because I think if they're playing against an under 15s boys team which they did a couple of weeks earlier [FC Biel] and beat that team, it's not a news story,' Dalton said on Nine's Wide World of Sports. 'I think that's the whole idea of this for me is that this is a high performance preparation for this team, I think they rolled through 28 players in 90 minutes. 'They were obviously testing different combinations and things. 'But people then grab onto this story and just run with it and use it as this argument of "women try and say that they're better than men in sports", and we're not out there doing that. 'We're just out there doing our best as high performance athletes trying to prove ourselves as our own product. 'I think quite often we kind of get caught up in this comparison between men's and women's sport. I don't want to go out and play in the men's AFL competition. I want to play AFLW. 'So I think it is a really important distinction to make. Women's sport can be respected and celebrated on its own without having to be pitted against the men, which often is what these stories reinforce.' Swiss Football Association media spokesperson Sven Micossé told Blick: 'It's not uncommon in women's football to compete against junior teams. 'The goal: to bring a certain competitive element. The focus during this phase of preparation is on the physical aspect. Regardless of the result, these training games are very similar to our international matches in terms of intensity and mileage.' Switzerland face Norway in their opening group game on Thursday and will hope to improve on their showing at the previous Euros, where they picked up just one point in three games. They will also take on Finland and Iceland in group A. Alisha Lehmann, previously dubbed the 'world's sexiest footballer' was part of the side which lost to the Under 15 side. Juventus star Lehmann is the national team's most famous player and boasts 16.7million followers on Instagram and 12m on TikTok. However, she was only handed a last-minute call up to the Swiss squad after being initially snubbed by Sundhage. The 26-year-old was given a spot in the squad after FC Koln midfielder Alena Bienz withdrew with an ankle injury. Reacting to her call up, Lehmann wrote on Instagram: 'I couldn't be happier to represent my country at the Euros. I'm so grateful for the opportunity. Let's make Switzerland proud and show how football is growing.'
Sydney Morning Herald
29-06-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Dalton's frustration with Swiss U15s soccer story coverage
Olympic gold medallist Chloe Dalton admits her frustration with the story surrounding the Swiss women's soccer team losing to an under 15 boys team.
The Age
29-06-2025
- Sport
- The Age
Dalton's frustration with Swiss U15s soccer story coverage
Olympic gold medallist Chloe Dalton admits her frustration with the story surrounding the Swiss women's soccer team losing to an under 15 boys team.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dalton's stellar sports career dimmed by back injury
With a sporting career inspired by Cathy Freeman, fellow Olympic gold medallist and multi-sports star Chloe Dalton has been forced to retire due a back injury. Part of the champion women's sevens rugby team at the 2016 Rio Games, Dalton also played AFLW for both Carlton and GWS over seven seasons, running out for 32 games. Demonstrating her versatility and skill, she also played in the WNBL before switching her focus to rugby sevens. Requiring back surgery after an injury ended her 2024 season with the Giants, Dalton said she's failed to recover sufficiently to resume her career. "Retired. After a second back surgery nine months ago, my body hasn't bounced back to the point where I can play footy again," the 31-year-old posted on social media. "It's been a tricky process trying to come to terms with the fact that my sporting career has finished through injury." Dalton posted a series of photos and told the story of her sporting journey; how she was determined to win an Olympic gold medal after watching Freeman's triumph at the Sydney Games. When realising she wasn't good enough to make the Australian basketball team she set her sights on sevens. "I went onto Google and typed in lists of Olympic sports," Dalton wrote. "Rugby sevens would be in the Olympics for the first time in 2016. I had just 2.5 years to learn how to play rugby and secure myself a ticket on that plane to Rio. "... That seven year old girl got to stand on the podium and have her very own Olympic gold medal put around her neck." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chloe Dalton (@chloeedalton) Dalton said that she then saw AFLW on television and, although she didn't know the rules, wanted to play. Joining the Blues in 2018, she was part of Carlton's grand final team a year later. She decided to switch back to sevens to compete at the Tokyo Olympics but shattered her cheekbone four weeks out from the Games. After launching The Female Athlete Project, which is a platform to highlight the sporting achievements of women, she then resumed her AFLW career with GWS but injuries restricted her to just 16 games across four seasons. After announcing her retirement the Giants congratulated Dalton her achievements and contribution. "Chloe's impact both on and off the field for the Giants has been profound and she'll leave a lasting legacy with her teammates, coaches and staff," GWS women's football boss Alison Zell said.
Tatler Asia
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tatler Asia
Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: 6 timely books shaping how women document our complex world
'The Story of a Heart' by Rachel Clarke Above 'The Story of a Heart' by Rachel Clarke (Photo: Abacus) Palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke brings her signature depth and restraint to the story of a child's heart transplant, an event that might, in another writer's hands, invite melodrama. Instead, Clarke writes with a clinician's precision and a humanist's empathy, charting the emotional undercurrents of grief, hope and moral complexity that surround organ donation. It's not about the transplant as a 'miracle' but as an existential moment shared by multiple families, connected by something more than just biology. 'Raising Hare' by Chloe Dalton Above 'Raising Hare' by Chloe Dalton (Photo: Canongate Books) What begins as an act of compassion rescuing an injured hare during the early days of lockdown becomes an unexpectedly haunting meditation on care, autonomy and the porous boundary between wildness and domestic life. Chloe Dalton resists the twee instincts of nature writing, instead offering a narrative that leans into the uncanny. The hare, which keeps returning unbidden, becomes a symbol not just of resilience but of something older and harder to name: instinct, memory and the nonverbal contracts between species. 'Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka' by Clare Mulley Above 'Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka' by Clare Mulley (Photo: W&N) Clare Mulley resurrects the story of Elżbieta Zawacka or 'Agent Zo', the only woman to serve as a courier for the Polish resistance and later the British Special Operations Executive. This isn't a Cold War caricature of female espionage. Instead, Mulley paints a nuanced, multidimensional portrait of a woman navigating the brutal moral calculus of war. Without softening Zawacka's contradictions or overplaying heroism, Agent Zo becomes both a gripping biography and a serious exploration of patriotism, gender and survival under totalitarianism. 'What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Oceans' by Helen Scales Above 'What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Oceans' by Helen Scales (Photo: Grove Press UK) Marine biologist Helen Scales writes with the curiosity of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet in this quietly urgent account of our oceans. She doesn't sugarcoat the damage of coral bleaching, acidification and extinction, but neither does she descend into apocalyptic hopelessness. Instead, Scales chooses to write about resilience: ecosystems that adapt, communities that fight for preservation and the complex, often contradictory emotions that come with loving a world in decline. It's a book about awe as much as warning. 'Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China' by Yuan Yang Above 'Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China' by Yuan Yang (Photo: Bloomsbury Publishing) Economist and former journalist Yuan Yang follows the lives of four women in modern China as they navigate the competing pressures of ambition, family, state control and personal freedom. Structurally daring and emotionally layered, Private Revolutions avoids the trap of Western simplification. Instead, it captures the fractal nature of change: personal, political, generational and how it manifests inside kitchens, courtrooms, office towers and dissident networks. Yang's reporting is sharp, empathetic and rigorously unsentimental. What makes the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist interesting isn't its diversity, it's the editorial rigour. These aren't neat stories with clean morals. They are dense, sometimes uncomfortable and always engaging. And in an industry that still favours polished narratives told by the usual suspects, it matters that these books were chosen. The 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction doesn't offer easy consensus. Not every book will appeal to every reader, but taken together, they offer a snapshot of the questions serious non-fiction is grappling with now. That's reason enough to pay attention.
