- Dina Asher-Smith, from the United Kingdom, was the leading candidate to win 100 meters of career at the recently held European Athletics Championship in Munich, but the last. In the BBC media interview, she points out that the effects of menstruation made her career difficult and calls for more research into the cycle from sports sciences.
On August 16, the 100-meter final was contested and Dina Asher-Smith ended the race dragging along the leg cramps. But later, it was the fastest in the qualifying race for the end of the 200 meters that would be disputed on 26 August and, once achieved, made the following statements to the BBC sports network:
"[Menstruation] It's a great sports theme for women"
"I think there are more people who should investigate from the point of view of sports science."
"Sometimes you see the girls with a solid track record dreaming at random, and from the inside they have really fought."
"It could be done with more funding, because if it were men's stuff, we would have a million different ways of dealing with things."
"People don't always talk about... if it was a men's issue we'd have a million different ways to combat things"
GB sprinter Dina Asher-Smith calls for more period sports science after her menstrual cycauscle is it to pull up with cramp in 100m final https://t.co/hWvN8pOXnX pic.twitter.com/ZcFCthifp9
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 19, 2022