BBC pundit Sharron Davies has claimed a shadow has been cast over the Sports Personality of the Year awards following the announcement that footballer Barbra Banda will be among the prize winners.
Davies has signed a letter to BBC bosses slamming them for “promoting” Banda.
“There is now a risk this will cast a shadow over the BBC Sports Personality of the Year,” the letter says. “Our female athletes deserve better than for the national broadcaster to promote this player as if there were no questions to be answered.
“It is now almost inevitable that young women like Keely Hodgkinson, whose own event was overshadowed by DSD [Differences of Sexual Development] male athletes, prompting World Athletics to pursue new regulations all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, will be asked about this when the focus should be on their own achievements.”
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