WHAT’S HOT WHAT’S NOT

HOT EMMA HAYES

A LOT gets said about the depiction of women’s football. Plenty of it is helpful and resonates, and some of it is less so. You suspect the contribution of Chelsea manager Emma Hayes, ridiculing the notion that a move to an EFL club would be a step up in her career, will endure longer than most and do more good.

BRYSON DECHAMBEAU

NOT everyone’s cup of tea but you have to credit a guy who is so effective at what he does that golf’s rule makers are exploring ways to tackle him. The motivations behind reducing maximum shaft length, and therefore length off the tee, are reasonable. The fact it has echoes of the ‘Tiger proofing’ that once went into courses also shows the company he is keeping in forcing these conversations.

CHANNEL 4

THEY have the rights to an England Test series for the first time since 2005. While some of the reaction has been a touch disrespectful to Sky, who do an excellent job with the sport, the vastly enhanced audience reach is precisely what the format needs at this time.

NOT BOXING

THE boxing world knew most of what was broadcast about Daniel Kinahan on Panorama, and it is shameful that it has allowed him to remain so influential for so long. To hear his apologists criticising such journalistic scrutiny — Billy Joe Saunders prominent among them — was entirely predictable from a sport that has little desire to change.

KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

WE ARE yet to learn the severity of her achilles injury, but what rotten luck. Few in elite sport have been so open about their struggles and fewer have had a such heartening redemption. If this injury proves decisive to her Olympic ambitions, it will be a sad thing indeed.

YOSHIRO MORI

THE head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, 83, was quoted as saying women talk too much and that meetings with many female board directors would ‘take a lot of time’. In the absence of much other racing, it will be interesting to see what gets cancelled first — the Games or the guy running the show.