{"id":222304,"date":"2025-10-24T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:11","slug":"wheelchair-rugby-star-from-this-girl-can-tackles-sport-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/222304\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair rugby star from This Girl Can tackles sport barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I think a lot of people have this belief that sports chairs and even normal chairs are funded by the Government and that&#8217;s just not the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as cost, Sonny, who travels 90 minutes each way to get to Harlequins, said a lack of local clubs can also be a barrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know loads of people who want to get into sport, but it&#8217;s just the price and how far away the clubs are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So many things make it not accessible for so many people,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonny is one of 13 street-cast athletes to feature in the This Girl Can campaign, which focuses on groups of people under-represented in sports media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Accompanying the campaign, which is now in its tenth year, is AI analysis of 4,000 public photos from sports and leisure facilities in England, sourced via Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It found that women with visible disabilities were &#8220;almost entirely missing&#8221;, pregnancy was &#8220;practically erased&#8221;, and women of colour were &#8220;virtually invisible&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: &#8220;I think a lot of people have this belief that sports chairs and even normal chairs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}